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Drypoint etching of English landscape painter and etcher Edwin Edwards by Félix Bracquemond, 1872 art
Illustrations of Japan, by Judith Gautier, 1900s #art
El Japón
"The Tortoise and the Hare", from an edition of Caleb's Fables illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1912 #art
The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to overcome a stronger opponent.
Goats
Plate from "The Fables of Aesop", 1909, by Edward Julius Detmold #art
Euclemensia woodiella, the extinct Manchester Tinea (1830)
From British Entomology, 1862, by John Curtis art
Yaz in three portraits
Art by me #DoctorWho #DrWho
The first Asian companion, I think. Unless you count Kameleon.
"The children of Queen Blondine and sister Brunette picked up by a Corsair"
From the fairy tale Princess Belle-Etoile, 1884, by Walter Crane art
Fagin from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke art #charlesdickens
Fagin is a self-confessed miser who, despite the wealth he has acquired, does very little to improve the squalid lives of the children he guards, or his own.
The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist, by Joseph Clayton Clarke #art charlesdickens
Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that occupation