Adam Bさんのイラストまとめ

@ProfFarahKC Originally this:
George Frederick Bensell (American, 1837-1879), King Lear, oil on canvas,  50” x 40”
https://t.co/wPd83kaDIR

Illustration of the Day: “The Psalms for Modern Life” (London 1933) by Arthur Wragg [Part 2]
Psalm 17: “Keep me as the apple of the eye*, hide me under the shadow of thy wings.”
(* deriving from an early biblical mistranslation, the ‘apple’ of the eye came to mean the pupil.)

@PatchLimb Oinkly thanks.
Off-topically, this book of emblems, published in several sets of languages, has a wonderful frontispiece in which Cupid has run amok with his arrows, piercing anyone & everything, moon, elephant & sea monster included (but no pigs)
https://t.co/MPV3IfMea0

@Blondetown ‘W Thomas’ is, I think, the engraver. The original artist is listed as F W Keyl (a big painter of dogs & cattle apparently):
https://t.co/68iZFwLTqU
The book says it contains ‘engravings on wood from drawings by eminent artists’
& you’re right there’s something on the leaf ..

Illustration of the Day: ‘Green Mansions’ by W H Hudson
Illustrated by Edward McKnight Kauffer (1944)
“Wonder-struck at the sight of her strange beauty and passion, I forgot the advancing snake until she came to a stop at about five yards from me.”

@DrPeteKirwan Maclise’s image turns up again inset into an 1884 poster for Thomas Keane’s Hamlet (printed in Cleveland)
(h/t to @VeraNijveld for originally posting this)

(Dramatic) Illustration of the Day:
Knight’s Pictorial Shakespeare (c.1860)
Pericles solves the riddle of King Antiochus & his daughter. The illustration tastefully omits “the frightful heads of the former Princes [who failed to find the answer] placed upon his Castle wall”

@RobGMacfarlane The Dipper in “Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands” Vol.3 (1885)
https://t.co/1KSXeNjJZF

@RobGMacfarlane “Le Pissenlit dont on fait des salads au printemps ....”
Traité des Aliments, Louis Lémery (1705)
https://t.co/n90WRHw1W5

- an early version of the paradox of a time-traveller helping Shakespeare write. (Susie is an actor)
WS: Who spoke?
Susie: What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
WS: Another perfect line. It’s not by Francis Bacon is it?
Susie: Oh no, no, no.
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