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  1. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  2. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  3. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  4. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  5. Filamentose Oxide of Copper (*Cuprum oxygenizatum*) (1802–17) by James Sowerby, from British Mineralogy.

    Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/2649

    #minerals #geology #rocks #mineralogy #bookillustration #engraving #art #publicdomain

  6. Left: *Hago-iti* (battledores). Right: *Zubombo*, a paper dancing lion. With clam shells attached to his feet to anchor him, this paper lion can be made to dance by the movement of a fan. (Volume 3, pg. 20) (1911), from Unai no tomo.

    Source: The Metropolitan Museum

    pdimagearchive.org/images/6740

    #childhood #toys #japan #children #design #play #bookillustration #woodblock #art #publicdomain

  7. Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

    My postcard features an interior illustration for the upper-middle grade sci fi series "Worlds Apart" by Ian Fanselow. I work with a line-based, graphic-novel-inspired illustration style for this book! Find more of my book illustration at candicebroersma.com.

    #kidlit #bookillustration #fantasyart #noai #scifiart #middlegrade #kidsbook

  8. Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

    My postcard features an interior illustration for the upper-middle grade sci fi series "Worlds Apart" by Ian Fanselow. I work with a line-based, graphic-novel-inspired illustration style for this book! Find more of my book illustration at candicebroersma.com.

    #kidlit #bookillustration #fantasyart #noai #scifiart #middlegrade #kidsbook

  9. Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

    My postcard features an interior illustration for the upper-middle grade sci fi series "Worlds Apart" by Ian Fanselow. I work with a line-based, graphic-novel-inspired illustration style for this book! Find more of my book illustration at candicebroersma.com.

    #kidlit #bookillustration #fantasyart #noai #scifiart #middlegrade #kidsbook

  10. In one of Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876), Louise Schweitzer ("One Wild Flower", 2012, page 223) found this allusion to John Everett Millais' "Boyhood of Raleigh" (snrk.de/holidays-butcher-and-m).

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Allusions #Pastiche #Millais #PreRaphaelite #JohnEverettMillais #Raleigh #WalterRaleigh

  11. In Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", the textual puns are accompanied by Henry Holiday's pictorial puns.

    I think that Eliots comment on borrowing by poets applies not only to writers, but to all art thieves: snrk.de/on-borrowing/.

    #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #MarcusGheeraerts #MarcusGheeraertsTheYounger #LewisCarroll #bookillustration #Victorian #Allusions #Pastiche