The Public Domain Reviewさんのイラストまとめ

Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: https://t.co/cYph9Kvcll

Pages from Walter Crane's beautifully illustrated version of Aesop's fables, shortened and put into limericks for the younger reader and first published in 1887. See the full book here: https://t.co/Z2O1Z5mBZq

Selection of illustrations from Variae Architecturae Formae (1636), a series of architectural studies after the works of Hans Vredeman de Vries, a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer: https://t.co/bWzORHVDQj

The Chinese Fairy Book (1921) — compiling seventy-four traditional folk takes from China, making, as the translator notes, “probably the most comprehensive and varied collection of oriental fairy tales ever made available for American readers” — https://t.co/TBUdJggi5l

Waterfall and Northern Lights, Carl Svante Hallbeck, 1856. ⁠
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Chromolithograph depicting Harsprånget waterfall, now the site of the largest hydroelectric power station in Sweden.⁠
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One of several aurora borealis prints available in our online shop: https://t.co/GXjL9aYwz7

"Diagram of the Winds", one of several medieval cosmographic diagrams found in a 12th-century English manuscript. See more of its wonderful cosmographic imagery here: https://t.co/nqqTRBZmen

From Botticelli to Blake to Doré, a tour through seven centuries of illustrations for the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri who passed away #onthisday in 1321... https://t.co/Avg6JnC1lV

A year before his death, the artist Howard Pyle set off for Italy, leaving unfinished on his Delaware easel his final painting *The Mermaid* — a profoundly haunting work of art: https://t.co/B8A9NRqkqH

One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: https://t.co/pkZcUloRA4

Before Cousteau, way before @Octonauts, explorer Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez was bringing images of the undersea world to the surface, from his artist’s sketch pad inside a glass and steel diving bell: https://t.co/Bcjttua2HI