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Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a classic collection of Japanese ghost stories compiled and translated by Lafcadio Hearn, who died in Tokyo #onthisday in 1904. Read its wonderful stories here: https://t.co/4SjvDybz2i #otd
Dragon Magazine's theme frontispieces for 1990. My faves are March's pixie, August's falconer (or should I say "owler"?), and November's enchanter. (1/3) #adragonaday
@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
Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), for The English Dance of Death by William Combe (1815). #BookIllustrationOfTheDay #EnglishArt #Frontispiece
Today's #DailyHogarth H's fab design for frontispiece to Henry Fielding's 'The Tragedy of Tragedies' engraved G van der Gucht @britishmuseum 1730/1. Princess Huncamunca inspects her love rival, Amazon Glumdalca by candlelight w/ their hero, wee Tom Thumb, standing by, arms folded
Books were booming at this time & causing a revolution in learning & information (a more dramatic & transformative version of our digital revolution). He illustrated the Dance of Death, the Icones & the title page of Luther’s bible. Young Woman (1522) & Bible Frontispiece (c1523)
How did the site of a gallows, dump, & quarry become a picturesque public park in #Paris? Read a Q&A w/ @cudenvercap professor Ann Komara: https://t.co/rBIKdcEfxZ.
📷 📖: "amazing" frontispiece & "enormous banana plants." @HarvardLibrary 99003386229, 99001173612.
#ScholarSunday
Portrait of Elizabeth Cromwell, wearing a hood, monkey over her right shoulder; frontispiece to 'Court and kitchen of Elizabeth Cromwell' (1664).
British Museum
Leaf from a Missal: The Crucifixion (Frontispiece for the Canon of the Mass), Master of Otto van Moerdrecht, c. 1440-1450 https://t.co/Jbc0zPkpVs #MedievalArt #clevelandart
Harry Clarke's 'The Last Hour of the Night' (1922), the frontispiece for 'Dublin of the Future'
'Nosferatu' theatrical program book cover illustration by Albin Grau (1922) #GothicNewWorlds
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/DrgAdVo3Vc #otd
Royal Feast in a Garden, recto of left folio from the double-page frontispiece of a Shahnama of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020), 1444 https://t.co/iggsGs6Gpd #clevelandartmuseum #cmaopenaccess
Illustration by Thomas Rowlandson (England, 1756-1827), for the frontispiece of 'The English Dance of Death' by William Combe (1815). To get you in a weekend mood. #FridayReads
Arthur Rackham. Frontispiece illustration to Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market (1933)
Today's #DailyHogarth frontispiece for Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy engr Ravenet @britishmuseum 1760. Dr Slop snoozes, Walter Shandy & Uncle Toby smoke, while Corp Trim stands 'his knee bent, but that not violently-but so as to fall within the limits of the line of beauty'😉
didoofcarthage:
Detail of a frontispiece after Richard Westall for Paradise Lost, from The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by Samuel Egerton Brydges
English, published in London in 1835
engraving and etching, printed on chine collé
British Muse… https://t.co/54rRC48Bms
Seventeenth-century dick shopping.
[Engraving for the frontispiece of Nicolas Chorier's 'Aloisiae Sigaeae', printed in Amsterdam, c. 1690]
Frontispiece to Man-Midwifery Dissected by Samuel W Fores: https://t.co/iORxIWuIVi #InternationalDayOfTheMidwife
Claude Mellan, 1598-1688
The three Graces, holding a blank medallion and a drapery; frontispiece to de Vias’s ‘Charitum libri tres’ (Paris: Edmond Martin, 1660); before portrait in medallion, and before letter, 1659, engraving