me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

White 1930s deco with hints of streamline but also verticality

Spanish/moorish fourplex with green tiles and woodwork

Regal-looking apartment building with tall cypress trees and an archway into the building

Streamline moderne with a hint of regency, round white corners and topiary hedges

One LA Block: 100’s N Sycamore

Snickers bar and a metal whistle

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

Vintage Halloween card of witch in pink flying over smiling full moon in starry sky on broomstick. Below, an owl is perched on a branch and two black cats run across a green landscape with forest in distance. At the top, it say’s ‘Halloween Greetings’.

#Gothtober #31DaysOfHalloween

A female torso showing the anatomy of the thorax with the right shoulder and through also dissected. The face is still intact, and lies serenely tilted back, eyes shut. The hair is dark and curling, and the figure is in a glass case with a wooden back, with white cloth between the figure and the board

Dissected torso produced in wax by the famed Florentine modeller Clemente Susini

"Cosmic Energy" by Remedios Varo features ethereal figures seamlessly blending into a rocky environment, with one holding a violin and the other gazing toward a red cat emitting star-like sparkles. This surreal scene typifies Varo's signature blend of mysticism and the fantastical, inviting viewers into a dreamlike exploration of interconnectedness.

Cosmic Energy
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19617

Autumn garden with woman in yellow dress raking leaves for October in calendar.

A happy October wish for us all.
🖼️ Grasset

"The Gathering," by Remedios Varo, is an enchanting piece that captures three mysterious figures cloaked in intricate, flowing garments embellished with surreal, lace-like patterns. The ethereal scene evokes a sense of intrigue and dreamlike magic, with the figures seemingly engaging in a secretive and spectral rendezvous deep within the forest.

The Gathering
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19628

It's full of nice things.

As someone who loves new books about old books this is deeply exciting and one of the most satisfying things I've ever done.

Kastle Kreme
Galesburg, IL

Neat!

Oh I love it though.

No, for real

Speaking of lobotomies,but more cheerful, here is the cat sleeping with her face smashed into my bra on a chilly day. #onebraincell

Back on the lobotomy content again, decanting some of Margaret Kennard's stuff for individual cataloguing. Sigh.

Bee anatomy from ‘Dr. Lampe’s Bienenzucht’ published in Leipzig by P. Berger, [1909?].

UW-Madison’s Special Collections library.

#foldoutanatomy #worldbeeday #moveablebooks #bees #animalart #naturalhistory #scientificart

These scientific illustrations by Orra Hitchcock (1796–1863) — executed on poster-sized linen swaths and hung on classroom walls — are striking for their modern abstraction. More here in our latest post by @eayers0: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hitchcock-illustrations

One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...

A double page book spread with a colour illustration of a seated woman from behind looking back over her shoulder. Her back is dissected.

One of the plates from Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty’s “Suite de l’Essai d’anatomie en tableaux imprimés” from 1745. This illustration is often known as The Flayed Angel. I’ve seen a number of original editions of Gautier d’Agoty’s books in various places and they’re always stunning.

Looking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris, behold the enigmatic "color analysis" charts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel from her 1901 book Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color.

More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

An early harvest this year.

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895.

More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

1914 health advice pamphlets from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company about the dangers of whooping cough and measles.

Sometimes I like to look at Brighton property listings to remember why we left. Holy hell.

Happy birthday! Lovely ranuncs.

#wewillrebuild

We've just had a casual little 5.0-earthquake here at work AND I had to change my work passwords this morning. Ugh.

Lil cuties I saw today from our Hawthorn history of fly fishing collection (1900).

Advert for Valentine's Meat Juice, from a 1909 issue of
Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy.

More images for today in our themed set “love and lust”: pdimagearchive.org/galleries/th... #valentinesday