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Love long and prosper

Emil Doerstling, Prussian love happiness, 1890, Deutsches Historisches Museum

Prussian army bandmaster Gustav Albrecht Sabac el Cher and his wife Gertrude Perling

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May the horse be with you

Artist unknown, L'estoire de Merlin, 1316, British Library

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[artejoke]

I wanna be curated

1. Lavinia Fontana, Self-portrait, circa 1577-1585, Saragossa Museum 2. Friederike Julie Lisiewska, Self portrait of the artist, aged twenty-one, 1793, Staatliches Museum Schwerin 3. Na Hye-sok, Self-Portrait, c. 1928, Suwon Ipark Museum of Art 4. Elisa Counis, Self-portrait in Uffizi Gallery 1839, 1839, Galleria degli Uffizi 5. Marietta Robusti, Venecian lady, 16th century, Museo del Prado 6. Alice Pike Barney, Self-Portrait with Palette, 1906, Renwick Gallery 7. Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Self-Portrait, 1900, Konstmuseet Ateneum 8. Henriette Lorimier, Self-portrait, between 1804 and 1806, Musée Magnin 9. Lucia Anguissola, Self Portrait, 1557, Castello Sforzesco, Milan

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[artejoke]

Hand-to-hand Wombat

Harriet Scott Morgan, The Wombat (Phascolomys Wombat) in The Mammals of Australia, 1871, National Library of Australia

Harriet Scott Morgan was one of 19th century Australia’s most prominent natural history illustrators and, along with her sister Helena, was possibly one of the first professional female illustrators in Australia.

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[artejoke]

You can’t live by thread alone 

Joan Planella i Rodríguez, La petita obrera, 1889, Museu d'Història de Catalunya

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[artejoke]

Resting witch face

Benjamin West, “Frog,” A Witching Cat owned by Perdida Breadnut of Woolich, 1752, Germantown College Archives

For the NaNoWriMo folks, Perdida Breadnut would be a fantastic character name...

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[artejoke]

From dusk till dragon

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Dragon and Waves, ca. 1827-31, Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art

Stop dragon my heart around

Attributed to Master of the Vienna Chroniques d'Angleterre, Conception of Alexander the Great (translation of Historiae Alexandri Magni of Quintus Curtius Rufus), ca. 1468-1475, British Library

Dragon us through it

Attributed to José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza, Marianne Celeste Dragon, c. 1795, Louisiana State Museum (image cropped)

Marie Celeste Dragon was a prominent land owner during the Spanish Louisiana period. Her father was American Revolutionary War hero Michel Dragon, a Greek migrant and her mother, Marie Françoise Chauvin Beaulieu de Montplaisir, was a former slave. Her family owned at least 36 slaves, many of whom were likely to be her blood relatives.

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[artejoke]

My cup runneth hangover

Get Finished Flowering, Gabriel von Max, 1870, Oblastní galerie Liberec

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[artejoke]

I wanna be your frog

Matsumoto Hoji, Frog (from Meika Gafu), 1814, Smithsonian Libraries

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[artejoke]

I like big buttes

Edgar Alwin Payne, Red Mesa Monument Valley, Utah, ca 1935, Utah Museum of Fine Art

Not what I planned to post today but I love @nationalparkservice

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[artejoke]

A thorn in one’s bride

Auguste Toulmouche, The Reluctant Bride or The Hesitant Fiancée, 1866, Private collection

*I need to practice my glare. Every woman needs a stare like that, so you can cut people in half just by looking at them.

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[artejoke]

Theodora and after

Artist Unknown, Theodora mosaic (detail), 547, Basilica San Vitale, Ravenna

Theodora was a the daughter of a bear trainer and dancer, became a sex worker and eventually a Byzantine empress. She is remembered as one of the first rulers to recognise the rights of women, passing strict laws to prohibit the trafficking young girls and altering divorce laws to give greater benefits to women. She died from what is reported to be breast cancer in 548 at age 48.

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[artejoke]

I wanna be curated

Catarina van Hemessen, Self-Portrait, 1548, Kunstmuseum Basel

Amalia von Königsmarck, Self-Portrait, 1687, Nationalmuseum

Elisabeth Nourse, Self-Portrait, 1892, unknown

Sarah Biffin, Self-Portrait Before Her Easel, circa 1821, private collection

Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-Portrait, between 1552 and 1553, Galleria degli Uffizi

Rosalba Carriera, Self-portrait holding a portrait of her sister, 1715, Galleria degli Uffizi

Agnes Goodsir, Self portrait, 1900, Australian National Portrait Gallery

Angelica Kauffmann, Self-portrait, between 1770 and 1775, National Portrait Gallery

Michaelina Wautier, Self-Portrait, circa 1649, private collection

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[artejoke]

April showers bring Ethel Spowers

Ethel Spowers, Wet afternoon, 1930, Te Papa

*If only. The autumn showers have not started down here and my garden is displeased. Only the basil and the late tomatoes seem ok with the situation. It can be dry when I get to the UK in a few weeks though...

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[artejoke]

For Trevor and a day

Helen Mabel Trevor, Self-Portrait, 1890s, National Gallery of Ireland

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[artejoke]

I’ll have to pi it sometime

Clara Peeters, Mesa, 1611, Museo del Prado

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