An Unfading Hyacinth

Artist and poet, secretary, confidante and bedwarmer to Dr. Kensington Mudgett. A quiet soul in a crazy world. Following the tag "unfadinghyacinths"

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José Guadalupe Posada. A skeleton serving alcohol (ca. 1880-1910)

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Albert Aublet, "Selene", 1880

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Attributing human characteristics to animals and things: my bizarre collection of a thousand anthropomorphism images.

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It might be a sign: my collection of vintage zodiac imagery.

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Odilon Redon - I plunged into solitude. I dwelt in the tree behind me (1896)

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Fantasy sights: Leyendecker

Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most famous American artists of the first half of the 20th century - most notably famous for doing the covers of popular magazines such as Collier's or The Saturday Evening Post. He was also one of the most prominent gay men in the world of 20th century arts, apparently? And given the enormous amount and omnipresence of his drawing - there's bound to be a lot of pieces that him that fit "fantasy" themes before the fantasy genre was truly its own thing.

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A Pleasant Corner (1865) by John Callcott Horsley (English artist, lived 1817-1903). 'The world was hers for the reading.' - Betty Smith

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Cross and Church in the Mountains, 1812, Caspar David Friedrich

Medium: oil,canvas

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Times A Wastin'

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“She saw before her a glorious figure, Prince Ember.”  From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.

Spellbinding: a choice collection of vintage witches and witchcraft imagery.

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From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1898.

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Fans of vintage fairy tale imagery will find over a thousand illustrations in my collection.

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We readily believe this news because the reporter is named Wolff, and wolves absolutely do know their lights in the sky.

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Newsworthy: a collection of weird and bad headlines.

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Lots of weird stuff in my collection of vintage Christmas imagery.

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Whether or not you believe, here’s my collection of weird vintage Santa imagery.

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Thomas Borup, Beast of Gévaudan, 18th century