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Richard Amsel (America, 1847 - 1985) • Book cover for The Madams of San Francisco • Ballantine Books • 1973

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Hornet costume in Ardern Holt's Fancy Dresses Described: Or, What to Wear at Fancy Balls • 1879

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Élisabeth Sonrel (French, 1874-1953) • La Fee du Bois D'argent (The Silverwood Fairy) • No other information found

This image could've been an engraving or etching for a bookplate? It's a sepia version of the painting below.

La Fee du Bois D'argent (The Silverwood Fairy) • Unknown date

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William Russel Flint (British, 1880-1969) • Illustration for Homer's Odyssey • Watercolour and gouache

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Ok was looking back on my blog and imfidning it hysterical that this is the only thing i posted after that acidic blunt like 2 nights ago 😭 as if I was in anyway red yellow honey sassafras and moonshine I WAS tossing and turning in my bed

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Coles Phillips (American, 1880 - 1927) • Cover for Good Housekeeping, October 1915

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Margerie Miller (American, 1897-1936) • Queen of the Night • Published in The Tatler • 1931

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Katherine Pyle (American, 1863-1938) • Illustration to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, from the collection Mother's Nursery Tales • 1918

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Maxfield Parrish (American, 1870 - 1966) • Hilltop Farm, Winter • 1949 • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

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Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939) • Sarah Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine • Poster for La Plume magazine • 1897

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John Bauer, illustrator (Swedish, 1882–1918) • Agneta and the Sea King, illustration to Swedish Folktales • c. 1911

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Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (British/Scottish, 1864 – 1933) • The Silver Apples of the Moon • 1912 • Pencil and watercolour, with highlights of gilt paint and gum arabic, on gesso prepared paper, laid on cardboard

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Artuš Scheiner (Czech, 1863 - 1938) • Illustration for E.T.A. Hoffmann's novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King • 1924 • Gouache

" Godfather Drosselmeier has told me of a lovely garden where there is a great lake, upon which beautiful swans swim about, with golden collars around their necks, and sing their sweetest songs. Then there comes a little girl out of the garden down along the lake, and coaxes the swans to the shore, and feeds them with sweet cake. "

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Annie French (British/Scottish, 1872 - 1965) • The Flower Maiden • Pen and black ink and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic

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Perry, Dame, & Company fashion catalog cover • 1919-1920 • Unknown illustrator

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Gerda Wegener (Danish, 1886 - 1940) • Girl and Pug in An Automobile • Sketch for front page illustration in Vore Damer