Claude Monet (French, 1840--1926)

HMS Victory - Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 - moored at Portsmouth, in: Picturesque Europe - The British Isles published by Cassell Petter & Galpin in 1875

1843 Adolph Tidemand - Christian August Wulfsberg and Caroline Nerdrum

(Oslo Museum)

Pygmalion and Galatea, Jean-Léon Gérôme, circa 1890

Oil on canvas 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

Mugshot of Paul Waldemar Aholainen, 1894, Sweden. He was originally from Finland and worked as a painter. He was arrested for vagrancy.

Sailor's Valentine with a crab, inscribed with Forget me not, 19th century

I have food poisoning and while I've been recovering in bed thinking about Tumblr post plus, I couldn't help but feel like an old English Victorian gentleman who is on his death bed.

Thinking about what will become of my dear beloved Tumblr once I pass, will the unfavourable Earl Post+ have its way with my beloved Tumblr? have I shitposted enough to ensure my blogs survival? how will my business partners (my mutuals) go on?

A Windmill near Delft, Johan Jongkind, 1857

Oil on canvas 55.9 x 41.9 cm (22.01 x 16.5 in.) Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain

Elegante Au Chapeau by Delphin Enjolras, 1896

Netsuke of a Stylised Sparrow

by Minko

Boxwood, 19th Century

Fashion plate by Rudolph Ackermann, 1818

Is this a zebra? No, why would we put a picture of a zebra on the page for Z?

No, this is a Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

A what?

A paradoxical bird-snout!

The platypus was given that name by Johann Blumenbach in 1803. But three years earlier George Shaw had named it Platypus anatinus, which was a bit of an issue because the name platypus also referred to a genus of beetle. Thus it eventually became Ornithorhynchus anatinus, or duck-like bird-snout. A hybrid name for hybrid animal.

From: A Bad boy's first reader (NY: GW Carleton & Co., 1881)

Pataky László - Hunyadi kivonulása (1896)

249 x 280 cm

Olaj, vászon

Costumes + Sisi (2009)

Archduchess Sophie of Austria’s red and black dress in Episode 01.

A crow with a halo. One thousand gems of genius in poetry and art. 1889.

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Komori no godan (bats) by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1880-83)

The Angel of Death (detail), Evelyn De Morgan, 1881

“The Zodiacal light in tropic latitudes.” A new astronomy for beginners. 1898.

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