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Gustave Doré's illustrations to Dante's Inferno, Plate LXV- Canto XXXI: The titans and giants.
Nine noble Spaniard hanged in the Netherlands.
🎨Johann Jakob Wick, Wickiana, 1567.
G. Dondi dell'Orologio, Tractatus astrarii, page showing the dial of Venus; Padova, B. C., Ms. D.39- 12v, 14th c.
'Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.'
Salvador Dalí’s Ills. of Dante’s The Divine Comedy, 1957-1965.
Léon Carré (1878 – 1942) was a French Orientalist painter and illustrator.The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
“In wine, there's truth.”
― Pliny the Elder.
🎨"Distillers Looking Into Their Own Business". Rowlandson, Thomas, 1811
"The Plumb-pudding in danger" (overtures made by Napoleon for a reconciliation with Britain), James Gillray, 1805.
H. P. Lovecraft created one of the few fictional books that was later turned into a real book: The Necronomicon.
Robert Gibbings ( 1889 – 1958), wood engraving for Samson and Delilah, 1925.
ROYAL HOBBY’S or The Hertfordshire Cock-Horse, anonymous, but George Cruikshank, 1819.