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George Frederic Watts — The Minotaur, 1885

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from the end of the island, the council building

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City and river, glowing

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the kid’s a natural

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Maxfield Parrish

Daybreak, 1922

oil on canvas

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At Close of Day - Maxfield Parrish

1941

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Maxfield Parrish, Ecstasy, 1929

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Willy Ronis, Courrières-les-Lens, 1951

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~ Toastmaster, 1940 via Vintage Ads Livejournal "The toaster makes the party”

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artmastered:

George Frederic Watts (and assistants), Hope, 1886, oil on canvas, 142.2 x 111.8 cm, Tate Britain, London. Source

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Philip Jones Griffiths, Boy destroying a piano, Wales, Great Britan, 1961

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That unnameable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire, the sound of wild ducks flying overhead, the title of The Well at the World's End, the opening lines of "Kubla Khan", the morning cobwebs in late summer, or the noise of falling waves.

C S Lewis, describing Sehnsucht

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Rossetti’s wombats

William Bell Scott, Rossetti’s Wombat Seated in his Master’s Lap, 1871, graphite on paper, 17.8 x 11.1 cm, Tate Britain, London.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti Lamenting the Death of His Wombat, 1869, ink on paper, 17.9 x 11.3 cm, The British Museum, London.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti bought a number of exotic animals after the death of his wife Lizzie Siddal in 1862, including two wombats. The artist was so distraught at the passing of his first wombat that he asked to have the creature stuffed and placed in the entrance hall at his Chelsea home. Weirdly adorable.