Bibliophiliaさんのイラストまとめ

"Are you a victim to optimism?".
The Wipers Times, a satirical magazine written by frontline soldiers in WWI

"Beasts on a tree."
Speculum humanae salvationis, France 15th c. Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 89, fol 24v

James Joyce left Ireland for Paris after completing his studies in 1902, originally moving there to study medicine.

Hugo Marie de Vries, was one of the first geneticists (concept of genes, mutation theory of evolution....)
📷1918

Torquato Tasso in the Hospital of St Anna at Ferrara. He spent 1579–1586 in the madhouse of St Anne.
🎨E. Delacroix.

Johannes Sadeler (1550–1600), Hell, c. 1590.
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
📖 Winston S. Churchill

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal
🎨A character with a grotesque face. Wellcome L

Antikamnia Calender, Louis Crusius, 1890s.
Antikamnia was a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Missouri.

'Doktor Johannes Faust’s Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis' is a spell book by Johann Scheible, published in 1849.

Robert Gibbings ( 1889 – 1958), wood engraving for Samson and Delilah, 1925.