The Public Domain Reviewさんのイラストまとめ

Japanese prints from 1873 depicting famous Western inventors and scholars in times of trouble. Pictured: Audubon (work eaten by mice), Carlyle (papers burnt), and Arkwright (spinning machine smashed by wife). More here: https://t.co/W8rdUzyjLM

Drawing and etching by Thomas Rowlandson, from The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque (1809–1812) which follows the good doctor’s adventures about the countryside in search of the perfect scenery. More here: https://t.co/u3OUFZa9ID

Future visions of everyday life in the year 2000, from a series of late 19th- / early 20th-century French postcards. https://t.co/Itf9EKjlO9

Some of the fine illustrations by Edward Julius Detmold featured in Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921).

More on the book here: https://t.co/fwYbcHsZYJ

Caricature a "sadistic tooth-drawer" who frightens his patient with a hot coal to make him pull back his head and so extract the tooth, 1810. ⠀
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Featured in our essay "Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America" by @UnrealCitoyenne — https://t.co/IeaoOtiwUd

Page from Thesaurus of Alchemy, ca. 1725.
More wondrous illustrations from the world of alchemy here: https://t.co/Yi03PnsFd7

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by the great scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn, who was born #onthisday in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/RopiXB1BBa #otd

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We are a not-for-profit project and rely on your donations to stay alive. If you like what we do then please do lend your support! We've lovely postcard packs up for grabs: upcoming theme on... AIR.

#OnThisDay in 1928, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen disappeared with 5 crew while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. Their bodies were never found. 17 yrs earlier he became the 1st to reach the S. Pole. See photos from that expedition here: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz #OTD

On the sketchbook of 15th-century engineer Johannes de Fontana, a catalogue of designs for fantastic and often impossible inventions, including fire-breathing automatons, pulley-powered angels + the earliest surviving drawing of a magic lantern device: https://t.co/yGQb2H1Vgd