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Viola Tricolor
Count Franz Graf von Pocci's Viola Tricolor: In Pictures and Rhyme (1875, Germany)The Painter at His Easel Thus many a painter once gay and glad, Sits before his picture, and says full sad: “Oh had I...
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Button Tales
Illustrations by Eva Bednářová for Button Tales (Knoflíková Pohádká) by Olga Hejná (Albatross, Prague, 1974) Eva Bednářová (1937–1986) was a prolific Czech illustrator who won both BIB and IBBY awards...
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Kenojuak’s Birds
The great Cape Dorset printmaker Kenojuak Ashevak died on January 7 at age 85. I've been meaning to feature her work since 2010 (my trips to Canada have resulted in a stack of Inuit art books). Here's...
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The Cubies’ A B C
Selections from a curious hundred-year-old children's book: The Cubies' A B C by Mary Mills Lyall and Earl Harvey Lyall (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913) The Cubies' A B C is a mostly light-hearted jab at...
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Daniel Horowitz
From the 365 series by Daniel Horowitz Read an interview with Horowitz and buy the book My stab at describing this work: Roland Topor and Hannah Höch attempt to illustrate the complete works of...
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Interstellar Overdrive
Illustrations and from Astronomic Picture Atlas by Ludwig Preyßinger (Germany, 1851) From the collection of Michael Stoll (flickr / @mstoll) I featured Michael Stoll's collection way back in May 2009...
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Nitrate Nocturne 2
Decomposed nitrate film frame clippings from the Turconi CollectionClip #15726: Red Eagle (di. Lawrence Trimble, Vitagraph, 1911) These frames are from the Davide Turconi Project, which is a record of...
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Koen van Os
25 posters by Dutch artist Koen van Os (1910–83) ca. 1960 via Memory of the Netherlands Most of these come from the huge archive Geheugenvannederland.nl (Memory of the Netherlands). A handful are from...
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Pierre Ferrero
Illustrations and comics by Pierre Ferrero (website / tumblr)Pierre Ferrero (website / tumblr) Pierre Ferrero is an illustrator/comic designer from France and a member of Arbitraire Editions.. I just...
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Mapmaker
from Mapmaker by Trevor Naud (tumblr / flickr) I'm very happy to own a Mapmaker box from Trevor Naud.Each set contains 28 graphic images printed on 285-gram watercolor paper. The box is made from solid...
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Caza in the 70s
Philippe Caza (b. 1940) just published two more e-books collecting his early work: Les Monstres du Placard 2 (a variety of work from the 70s) and Caza 30 x 30 (an expanded edition of a 1979 book...
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Ben Jones
Images and outtakes from Men's Group: The Video by Ben Jones (PictureBox, 2013)From "Video 2012" Details from PictureBox: Men's Group: The Video Ben Jones The last five years of the Ben's paintings,...
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Jorinde & Joringel
Rilla Alexander's illustrations for the Grimm fairy tale Jorinde & Joringel"This pocket sized book tells the Grimm Brothers tale of Jorinde who is transformed into a bird by an evil witch. She is...
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Fish On A Walk
Illustrations from Fish On A Walk by Eva Muggenthaler The publisher notes, "Fish On A Walk has no text other than two words at the bottom of each picture. This unusual format serves to suggest ideas...
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Ex Libris Mr. Reaper (10)
Fifteen bookplates from the collection of Richard SicaSalzweldBalesKalynovichJosef VachalJosef LieslerJosef LieslerWernerR. KochBlossfelddetailBlossfeldBlossfeld See all bookplate posts on 50 Watts.
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Vintage Safety
Fifty years of workplace safety posters courtesy of Geheugenvannederland.nl (Memory of the Netherlands)1925-1926, illus. Willem Papenhuyzen via Memory of the Netherlands1925-1949, poster by Evert...
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Le Fils du Roi
A guest post by Bill Kartalopoulos on Le Fils du Roi by Eric Lambé Wordless, drawn entirely in ball-point pen, and composed of images that dissolve the mystical into the everyday, Eric Lambé’s Le Fils...
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Modern Sketch
Illustrations from the 1930s Chinese magazine Modern SketchModern Sketch issue #9 Chen Juanyin, “China’s Characters Who Count” (#1, Chiang Kai-shek...) For the full background on this remarkable...
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Franz Wacik
Illustrations by Franz Wacik for the humor magazine Die Muskete, circa 1906–1911 Vienna 1909 Li-An has been posting a ton of material from Die Muskete on his tumblr. As I work my own way through the...
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Children’s Textbook Covers in 1920s Japan
Covers and endpapers from a series of Japanese textbooks, 小学生全集 ("Complete Works for Elementary School Students") via the National Diet Library 1929 (cover used for both "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and...
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