Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

The Lady of the Lake offering King Arthur his sword Excalibur.
📖 Ballads of bravery, George Melville Baker, 1877.

"To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child."
📖M. Tullius Cicero, Orator, 120

Neptune riding a platform drawn by sea horses calming the tempest Aeolus raised against the fleet of Aeneas. 16th c.

#Onthisday in 1929, Painter Diego Rivera (42) weds fellow artist Frida Kahlo (22).
📷.Kahlo’s Love Letters to Diego.

#OnThisDay in 1895, "The Adventure of Norwood Builder", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories, starts.

"Love is the only gold."
📖 Lord Alfred Tennyson, English Poet, In His Library With His Dog(1809-1892).

In 1915, poet Amy Lowell ordered 10,000 manila cigars to see her through an anticipated wartime shortage.

Little girl reading Alice in Wonderland while it comes alive around her.
🎨"My Books" by Honor C. Appleton, 1921.

Illustration of underground fire canals& the interior of Earth from Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus, 1664.

Margaret Mitchell ("Gone with the Wind", 1936), was struck by a automobile and died #OnThisDay in 1949.