Richard Fallonさんのイラストまとめ

W. E. F. Britten's illustration accompanying 'The Deserted House', from The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1901). Image restored by Adam Cuerden.

Turns out Toronto, like many other nineteenth-century cities, had its own Crystal Palace. Built in 1858; here it is depicted in 1871.

I like that the tradition of drastically overselling dodgy Seabury Quinn stories with insane covers has continued now for almost a century.

An elegant edition of Andrew Lang's The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897). Neat scan by National Library NZ.

A rare bird for #FossilFriday: Kurt Regschek's 'Urvogel (Archäopteryx)' (ca. 1955). Unfortunately for the select group of palaeontology-surrealism connoisseurs, this painting seems to have been auctioned off with little info.

The covers to the short-lived 1930s pulp Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror had a really great aesthetic of uncanny incompetence.

The alt text is really going for Charles Lyell here.

Reitmeyer et al (2021) provide a unique look at the women working on palaeoart at the AMNH in the early C20th. Margret Joy Flinsch Buba reconstructed Proboscidea and went on to sculpt Pope Paul VI. And here’s Elisabeth Rungius Fulda’s (what a name) beautiful 1923 Baluchitherium.

There has to have been a better way to visualise this metaphor.

I read in a letter of 02.03.25 from the @NHM_Library that Lord Leverhulme commissioned the landscape gardeners Pulhams to build large models of prehistoric animals in a park in Liverpool. NHM advised Alice B. Woodward to contact Pulhams. Any Liverpudlians know if this existed?