Anne Louise Averyさんのイラストまとめ

'The Rearguard (The Spirit of ANZAC),' evoking lines of soldiers at the beach at Gallipoli, warships faint on the horizon, was bought by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle's spiritualism was iron-clad with the death of his son, Kingsley, in 1918 & the painting offered deep solace.

A storm-petrel silk faille & taffeta visiting dress, by Charles Worth from the 1870s, trimmed with dark Atlantic-grey-silver steel beads; a gown for hot tisane & petits fours, dispelling old melancholy, whilst outside the rain sheets & the city rumbles then stills like the sea.

A delicate, cloudy French afternoon dress, from ca. 1874, feathered from hawthorn-white organdie, printed with trailing garlands of fashionable loquats or néfliers du Japon.

“I saw the sea-gods come..unhasting, unresting; for the power of the sea is in the weight of the waters & not in the wind-blown crests. These Great Ones rose with the tide, & like the tide, nothing might withstand them.”
Dion Fortune, The Sea Priestess, 1938

Commissioned after her death at 32 from smallpox, this portrait of Marie Louise Elisabeth, eldest daughter of Louis XV, with her son & fiercely protective parrot, by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, is cast with a gloomy, ominous beauty.

Swedish-American artist and animator Gustaf Tenggren's (1896-1970) passionate, urgent illustrations of Grimms’ Fairy Tales from 1923.

"The Black press urged the people to leave the South."

#34, Great Migration Series, 1941
Jacob Lawrence
MOMA

長き夜や通夜の連哥のこぼれ月

Nagaki yo ya
tuya no renga no
kobore tsuki

After a long night
Awake, composing poetry together
The moon spills in.

Night scenes of Shoda Koho (1871-1946)

Forget-me-not

From a series based on Flora’s Feast
Walter Crane (1845–1915)
@mfaboston

Wisteria Garden (Fuji no niwa)

「藤之庭」
1935 (Shôwa 10)
Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950)
Private Collection