#ohdearhedied — Public Fediverse posts

A 1733 anatomical drawing/engraving from Cheselden’s “Osteograpia” - a reassembled primate skeleton.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cheselden-Osteographia/pages/012-skeletal-person-on-tree-stump/

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Casabo-LaCivilizacion-3/pages/261-knights/

Crusaders attacking Jerusalem, from a book of history of [Western] Civilization (Barcelona, 1881).

I'm not sure about climbing a wooden siege-ladder wearing metal ring-mail & carrying a flag-pole, nor about pointing a sword menacingly at a man with a bow, but it's the fantasy of raising the flag over enemy territory.

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Death in a Castle or Roman palace

Engraved after a painting by Fusté, although i’m not sure who that was. Published in 1881.

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Casabo-LaCivilizacion-3/pages/013-murder-in-the-castle-throne-room/

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