Discovering Historyさんのイラストまとめ

Silence (1923) by Harry Clarke (GB, 1889-1931). Inspired by “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” by Edgar Allan Poe. #Gothic

The Laying of the water main in Tottenham Court Road (1834) by George Scharf (1788–1860). Civil engineering in Victorian London.

The Nursery Alice (1889) by Lewis Carroll. It contained coloured enlargements of John Tenniel's illustrations from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. #SundayRead

Dream of fairies by Cicely Mary Barker (England, 1895-1973). #FairytaleTuesday

The serenade by Carl Sterry (German, 1861-?). #MythologyMonday

Illus. from 1888 ed. of The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. "Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes." Book review: https://t.co/lhDFIfGDy6

Victoria Regina Queen Victoria receiving the news of her Accession (1887) by Henry Tanworth Wells (England, 1828-1903), depicting a scene in the early hours of 20 June 1837. #Royal #QueenVictoria

Madonna of the Lilies (1905) by Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860-1939). Commissioned to decorate a church in Jerusalem.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. First published on 14 October 1892, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. “It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.” #SherlockHolmes

Illustration from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (orig. pub. 1813). The artist is Arthur Wallis Mills (UK, 1878-1940). “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once ..” #BookIllustrationOfTheDay #Austenite