WunderKammer さんのイラストまとめ

Who Garnery the painter is, or was, I know not. But my life for it he was either practically conversant with his subject, or else marvellously tutored by some experienced whaleman.
(Melville)
A. Louis Garneray , writer, painter and corsair who sailed with Surcouf, b. #OTD 1783

James Macpherson (d. #OTD 1796) was "a mountebank, a liar, & a fraud”, Dr Johnson wrote & his "Ossian" was a forgery. It was, but it hit the European mindscape like a bomb and he became one of the foremost spiritual fathers of the Romantic Age. More on:
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The serpent will come from the hole
On the brown Day of Bríde,
Though there should be three feet of snow
On the flat surface of the ground.

a bit of weather divination on St Biddy's Day #OTD, St Brigid of Kildare to you, who once might have been the goddess Brigid of #imbolc

Poe wanted a mundane and non-reasoning creature capable of speech to deliver the bad news and could hardly take a parrot after all. Since all the cool kids tweet about the 175th anniversary of the 1st publication of #Poe 's #Raven #OTD - here are Édouard Manet's illus. (1875)

Allegedly, Napoleon himself ordered the paining of "Malvine, Dying in the Arms of Fingal" from the Ossian cycle (around 1801) by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, b. #OTD 1767

All that we see or seem / Is but a dream / within a dream. (Edgar Allan Poe)

For Poe's 211th #OTD - celebrating with 4 of my favourite illustrators...

🖼️ (L-R Gustave Doré, Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham & Harry Clarke)

“Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...”
Richard Wagner, The Ring of the Nibelung
... last week's major achievement: all 60 of Rackham's "Ring" cycle illustrations pinned to my "Gilded Age" board on #Pinterest
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“… many men both saw and heard a great number of huntsmen hunting....” #OnThisDay #WinterSolstice or #midwinter night marks the longest night of the year and one of the traditional dates when the Wild Hunt is abroad. Read more on https://t.co/G7kOEsuDa8

The Wild Hunt already saddles up & ghostly steeds chomp at their bits. Friday next is Midwinter and the "Rauhnächte" (rough nights) fall on Northern Europe. Time for the wild huntsmen to ride across the night skies. #WINTER tales for #folklorethursday - https://t.co/hyLRAD6GCc

"Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my Chariot of fire!"

#OnThisDay 260 years ago, William Blake was born at 28 Broad Street in Soho, London. Read more on https://t.co/zQBfYaJDiD