Anne Louise Averyさんのイラストまとめ

Images from Yama no sachi ('Luck of the Mountains' 山の幸), an illustrated book of haiku, with poems compiled by Shukoku Sekijyukan (1711-1796) and accompanied by pictures of wildlife drawn by Ryûsui Katsuma (1697-1773). (Biodiversity Heritage Library)

The strange world of Edwardian Nursery Rhyme Bat Wrangling, as illustrated by Frederick Richardson.
#FolkloreThursday

Franz Marc's (1880-1916) foxes from the early 1910s, painted only a few years before he was killed at the Battle of Verdun. "Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life."

1910 & from the rear window of his studio on West 23rd Street, John Sloan paints vignettes of daily life from the tenement rooftops. A trainer & his boy watch their pigeons take flight high above the city noise. Behind, you can glimpse the construction of Penn Station. @mfaboston

Autochrome portrait of Flora Stieglitz Straus
ca.1915
Nathan Straus (1889-1961)
@BeineckeLibrary

A pale blue-grey French Couture bias cut Day Dress from the 1930s, decorated with appliqués of abstracted Japanese tsuru (cranes) flying delicately across the skirt. (Image: Leslie Hindman)

Japanese prints: Sugiura Hisui, Shoson Ohara, Kano Norinobu, Utagawa Hiroshige.

Lilacs
Minerva Josephine Chapman (1858-1947)
Private collection

London Zoo in the 1930s: map drawn by Edward Bawden, illustrations by Clifford Webb, photograph of my mother and her sisters enjoying an elephant ride.

Radiant flower paintings by the magnificent Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750), who served as court painter to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine. Not only did she enjoy great success in her long life, selling her works for more than Rembrandt, she also mothered ten children.

Some French late 19th/early 20th century fancy dress costume designs - Un Papillon de Printemps! Le Pavot! Messire Soleil! La Sorcière!