Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

Nine noble Spaniard hanged in the Netherlands.
🎨Johann Jakob Wick, Wickiana, 1567.

“The world is quiet here.”
― Lemony Snicket.
📷Reading Room, Biblioteca Nacional de España, 1930s. Videa-BNE

Balzac's first play, Cromwell (1819), was a failure. He turned to writing sensational novels under various pen names

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.

Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright, and novelist, died at age 75 in poverty #OnThisDay in 1968.

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.

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
― R. Tagore.
📷Last picture of Tagore, 1941.