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Alice Roosevelt, photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca. 1902

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Hanslip Fletcher, Kelmscott Manor: William Morris' Bedroom, 1899, watercolor.

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Memento Mori, 18th century

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💐 Le jardin du Roy tres chrestien, Loys XIII, Roy de France et de Navare … A Paris: Et se vandent au Logis de l'auteur, Rue du Four, 1623. Original source Image description: Black and white botanical illustration from 1623 depicting two iris plants with long, slender leaves and detailed, ruffled petals. The drawing focuses on the intricate textures of the leaves and flowers, labeled as “Iris bulbosa” and “Iris bulbosa angustifolia” with small handwritten Latin descriptions beneath each. The image is framed with a simple border and a page number “47” in the upper right corner, suggesting it is part of an early printed garden or plant catalog titled “Le jardin du Roy tres chrestien, Loys XIII.” The overall style is precise and scientific, emphasizing naturalistic detail for study or classification.

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Assistants at the Swedish History Museum, sitting on the 12th century bench from Kungsåra church. Stockholm, 1908.

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If you like fairies or are one, here’s my current collection of vintage fairy imagery.

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Artful vintage tips and ideas for drawing.

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Ironic that the people thinking sheep are dumb are actually the ones walking around with one working braincell.

It sure helps a lot to ignore the facts, and that sheep have fear responses as akin to a goat, which, in case you don't know, they freeze in fear.

Yeah, look at them frozen in fear! Aren't they so dumb haha?? They don't even know that they're being thrown around!

Some humans thinking that they're smarter than other species is truly peak narcissism.

I'm kind of obsessed with the way sheep are handled. So efficiently. It always looks kind of unpleasant at first and then you notice the sheep are fine with it. They're always being flipped upside down and rolled down a chute or some shit. A shepherd will be tossing that thang in the air and spinning it like pizza dough & the sheep just lets it happen

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My collection of rats and mice, some giant, some playing while the cat’s away.

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blackberry blossoms photographed by benjamin t. gault, c. 1890.

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Statue of Neptune (2001) rising from the sea at Melenara Beach, Gran Canaria | sculptor: Luis Arencibia | ph: Juan Manuel Orega

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It’s been said that skulls are symbolic of the divine and the mortal, housed within the one vessel. Here’s a treasury of vintage skull imagery.

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I’ve collected some spooky vintage cemetery imagery.

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Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, 25.01.25, by Manusia dan Langit (composite picture of the alignment also called “planet parade”)

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Hans Weiditz, Witch turned werewolf attacking travelers, 1517

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'Reynard the Fox' by Augustus H. Fox, (1822-1895)