Rachel Deeringさんのイラストまとめ

White rabbit, Ogata Gekko, c.1900.

White-billed crow, Ogilvie-Grant, W. R. 1887.

Continuing with some of my favourites…but you have to click on it…
The Priestess of Delphi,
John Collier, 1891.

Chorus of Birds, Jan Van Kessel, C17th.

Fair Rosamund, John William Waterhouse, 
1916-17.

Illustration from A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Oliver Goldsmith, 1820.

Tonight, I feel a crow is needed.
Crow, Georges-Louis Leclerc in Comte de Buffon's ‘Histoire naturelle’ encyclopedia.

Gustave Moreau’s Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1876, for #SwampSunday Killed by Hercules as his second labour. The hydra lived in the Lake of Lerna which was also an entrance to the underworld.

‘And now my spirit twists
out of my breast…
it soars widely
through all the corners of the world --
it comes back to me
eager and unsated;
the lone-flier screams,
urges onto the whale-road
the unresisting heart
across the waves of the sea.’ ~ The Seafarer. #BookWormSat

‘I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.’ Nikos Kazantzakis, The Life and Times of Alexis Zorba. #BookWormSat
🖼 Winslow Homer, c.1869.