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Gustaf A. Tenggren (1896–1970) was a Swedish-American illustrator & chief illustrator for The Walt Disney C in 1930s

“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
―B. Cumberbatch
The Bookshop, Anton Pieck, 1930

'Microcosmos: Parvus Munds' by the Belgian cartographic printer and engraver Gèrard de Jode, 1579.

#OnThisDay in 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes patents the "Typewriter".
📷Right: Sholes typewriter, 1873.

🎨Peter Vilhelm Ilsted, Girl Reading a Letter in an Interior, 1908.

The Wood of the Self-Murderers- The Harpies and the Suicides. Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. by William Blake, 1824.

#OnThisDay in 1928, Maurice Sendak, illustrator & writer of children's books ("Where the Wild Things Are") was born

40-foot telescope constructed by W. Herschel. "View of Dr Herschel's forty feet telescope", 18th c., Wellcome Lib.

Medusa was beheaded by Perseus, who used her head(which retained its ability to turn onlookers to stone) as a weapon

Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley Writing "Prometheus Unbound" in Italy.
🎨Joseph Severn, 1845