Adam Bさんのイラストまとめ

Illustration of the Day: The History of Sir Thomas Thumb (1855) by Charlotte M Yonge
👩‍🎨: J.B. (Jemima Blackburn)
6.) “.. and speedily she mounted her state-coach, a snail-shell, drawn by bats, and bade Fly Cranion, her charioteer, make quickly for Caerleon.”

@DrPeteKirwan Well, according to Google anyway…

Illustrations of the Day: two books at once.
1.) Piešťany: World-known Spa (Czechoslovakia 1962)
2.) Contemporary Art in Czechoslovakia (Prague 1958)
Hotel Eden // Gathering Cherries by Pravoslav Kotík

@__synaesthesia @Blondetown More Argonauts from the ‘Museum’ including some unlikely speculation on its means of travel by poet James Montgomery

Illustration of the Day: The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith (1770)
👨🏼‍🎨: H L Richardson
5.) “The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school.
...
But now the sounds of population fail,
No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale.”

Illustration of the Day: Centaur by E W Gough (Birmingham, 1878)
5.) Anatomy of the Horse & Selecting Your Horse:
“Special care must be taken by the inexperienced in buying at Fairs or Public Markets. The saying must be remembered that - “They can see you coming.”

Illustrations of the Day: The Song of Songs (1952)
👨🏼‍🎨: Arthur Wragg

7.10) “I am my beloved’s
And his desire is toward me.”

7.12) “ Let us see whether the vine hath budded, and its blossom be open, and the pomegranates be in flower: there will I give thee my love.”

Hogarth’s 1734 version, with a similar attempted interruption by someone who seems to know cause, or just impediment, why these two persons should not be joined together in holy Matrimony.

Illustration of the Day: Stories From Hans Andersen (1938)
👨🏼‍🎨 Edmund Dulac
3. The Snow Queen
“In this kingdom .. there lives a Princess who is very clever. She has read all the newspapers in the world, and forgotten them again, so clever is she.”

Illustration of the Day: Lions & Lambs (1928)
🎨David Low
✒️Rebecca West
11. William Orpen “.. who, above all, cannot believe that anything matters. It is that which gives his pictures their strange, unwinking brightness.”
+ self portrait 1910
https://t.co/VaXH86QYju