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Illustration from a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school and dating from the late 15th century. More rainbow-coloured "grotesques" here: https://t.co/Hpvm20Azgh @BeineckeLibrary

Anthropomorphised plants from a wonderful 15th-century herbal hailing from northern Italy.

More here: https://t.co/ohKgBqjlbc
(And a print to buy here: https://t.co/8FjUoM5alj)

On this day in 1812, Spencer Perceval was shot dead as he entered the House of Commons, the first and only assassination of a UK Prime Minister.https://t.co/m8DRl4qute #otd

"The mouth breatheth not into a mask..."

Page from the very first picture book for children, published in 1658. More on it here: https://t.co/89MwLNFL1M

Happy #MayDay and #InternationalWorkersDay! This poster by Dutch artist Jan Toorop was for the Hague's 1898 National Woman’s Labour Exhibition, which had the goal to improve women's wages and working conditions.

More posters from Toorop here: https://t.co/ffjaJQDFpK

"A Burmese Map of the World" from The 37 Nats: A Phase of Spirit Worship Prevailing in Burma (1906) by Sir Richard Carnac Temple, the British Chief Commissioner of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands + amateur anthropologist.

Available as a print to buy here: https://t.co/6l2RRBjVxn

The "Bed Series" was a set of intimate portraits of lesbian sex workers made by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the 1890s behind the scenes at a Parisian brothel.

More in our latest post here: https://t.co/pnjrLNosVu

#OnThisDay in 1561, as the sun rose over Nuremberg, the residents described seeing an aerial battle take place in its glare — the erratic dance of orbs, crosses, cylinders and a crash-landing beyond the city. An early sighting of alien #UFO? https://t.co/sOaNSTg90l #OTD

Beautiful series of images by Eduard Pechuël-Loesche from an 1888 book on the strange skies produced the world-over after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa: https://t.co/UTAX8292fM

Kay Nielsen illustrations for East of the Sun and West of the Moon (1914), a book of Norwegian fairytales. See more illustrations, and read the stories, here: https://t.co/bd3b2l6ZZh