Jean-François Vilain, “Théâtre de la Porte St. Martin: Le Monstre,” ca. 1826, color lithograph. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Included in “It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200”

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Cut short by death. In 1826, William Blake (1757–1827) was commissioned to make a series of etchings for Dante's Divine Comedy. Poverty stricken he "is said to have spent one of the very last shillings he possessed on a pencil to continue sketching." Only 7 images were completed.

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Botanical illustration in the park: Flora conspicua : a selection of the most ornamental flowering, hardy, exotic and indigenous trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, .....by Richard Morris, 1826, in Biodiversity Heritage Library https://t.co/uccbMAESlh

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Gustave Moreau, April 6, 1826, Paris, France

"I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it"

image: The Birth of Venus, oil on panel 1866

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《 鳩鵪漫畫 》826,撲街!我鳩嗚路過咋。

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