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Mademoiselle Tulipe #jjgrandville #tulip #tulipe #williammorris #idarentoul #illustration
Lady Hemlock releases Bunny Socrates from life. More from J. J. Grandville's wonderful Flowers Personified (1847) here: https://t.co/94rxDXEkjF
Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by humanised flowers. His disturbing images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement. #FolkloreThursday
#illustrations from the Floral album of Jean Grandville (French, 1803-1847), published in 1867 📚📖
Lithograph by Charles-Victor-Hilaire Ratier (1807 1898) in superb original hand coloring
After the drawing by Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard 1803-1847)
Published in "L'Album de la Silhouette"
Paris, 1831 #HappyThanksgiving #TurkeyDay2020 #turkeyday #TurkeyTrot
A whimsical illustration by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville (1803-1847) from his 1844 collection, "Un autre monde: transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations..." https://t.co/nkt2WeF8H1 #history #twitterstorians #art #arthistory
THE FLOWERS PERSONIFIED (Les Fleurs Animées), 1847. By J.J. Grandville.
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J.J. Grandville (1803-1847)
1. From Un Autre Monde, 1842
2. From Les fleurs animees, 1830
3. From Les etoiles; derniere feerie, 1847
J.J. Grandville (Sept 13, 1803 - March 17, 1847, French) #illustration #painting #artlovers #art #fineart #artshare
Daisy and Narcissus from ‘Les Fleurs Animées’, 1846-7.
French artist J. J. Grandville liked to create a dream-like world of anthropomorphic animals. His work was admired by the poet Charles Baudelaire.
#FolkloreThursday #wildflowers
In some areas an old Celtic practice was to place mallow seeds upon the eyes of dead people to prevent evil spirits entering and taking over the corpse
#illustration by J.J. Grandville (1803-147, French)
Jasmine's reputed to be a mystical fairy vine, with night-blooming types holding especially potent magic - it's said to stimulate love, enchantment, psychic dreams
#FolkloreThursday
Aromatherapists use it to treat depression, low morale, and menopause
#illustration JJ Grandville
#Flowers Personified with reference to their myths, #folklore & place in olde #herbal lore... by influential #illustrator J.J Grandville, from 'Les Fleurs Animées' (1847), which was his last completed work...
+more : https://t.co/W0mCxMBPKK
TY @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday
@bryan_talbot Of course, if you've not yet read @bryan_talbot's GRANDVILLE with all its hidden secrets, we've most of those still in stock and reviewed too: https://t.co/cgE7YxOgH2
The 2nd one's out of print, sorry.
J.J. Grandville in Poor Minette -The Letters of Two French Cats, 1842.