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  1. oldbookillustrations:

    There once was a man who knew many new tales.

    Hans Tegner, from Andersenovy pohádky (Andersen’s Fairy Tales) vol. 2, by Hans Christian Andersen, Prague, 1902.

    (Source: archive.org)

  2. darkface:

    Head of Medusa (by michael_hamburg69)

    Arnold Böcklin 1894
    Museum of Fine Arts / Boston

  3. oldbookillustrations:

    There came a knight upon a steed of brass.

    Walter Appleton Clark, from The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, modern rendition by Percy MacKaye, New York, 1914.

    (Source: archive.org)

  4. theshipthatflew:

    yajifun:Japanese postcard

    (via blueruins)

  5. lauramcphee:

    Djuna Barnes, passport photo, March 1929

    (via mudwerks)

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  7. necspenecmetu:

    Giuseppe Cesari (Cavaliere d’Arpino), Daedalus and Icarus, late 16th or early 17th century

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