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  1. If your initials are T.W., and you're into Art Nouveau graphics, today is your lucky day! I just stumbled across this monogram from "The Works of GJ Whyte-Melville", pub. 1898, via the British Library.

    #Typographics #Typography #Typographie #lettering #BW #BlackAndWhite #BlancEtNoir #VintageGraphics #ArtNouveau #PublicDomain #Illustration

    flickr.com/photos/britishlibra

  2. I believe this is Phaethon, after taking his father Helios' chariot for a joy ride and pushing things too far.
    #MythologyMonday
    #VintageGraphics
    #PublicDomain

  3. "We figured out there were only three kinds of scenes in the world -- fights, seductions, and negotiations."

    -- Mike Nichols on wisdom acquired writing & performing with comic genius Elaine May.

    I haven't found any others yet!

    #comedy #WritingAdvice
    #writers #writing
    #AmWriting
    @amwriting
    @writers
    @writingcommunity
    #writingCommunity
    #forWriters #forReaders
    #bookstodon
    @bookstodon
    #WritersOfMastodon
    #AuthorsOfMastodon

    #VintageGraphics #PublicDomain
    Frame from archive.org/details/lesalmanac

  4. #StandingStoneSunday #VintageGraphics
    #PublicDomain #Illustration
    "When a very heavy body is nicely balanced, a very small force is adequate to give it motion. Hence Logan or rocking stones were amongst the 'piae fraudes' of the Druids. Observing so curious a property, they dexterously contrived to make it answer the purpose of an ordeal, and by regarding it as the touchstone of truth, acquitted or condemned the accused by its motions."

    archive.org/details/illustrate

  5. #WaterfallWednesday
    "In the deep gorge below the Falls, the current, contracted into one-fourth its space, is borne in violent eddies and whirlpools along its inclined bed toward Lake Ontario."
    Niagara Falls illustration from America Illustrated, Edited by J. David Williams, profusely illustrated with gorgeous engravings like this by an #UncreditedArtist
    archive.org/details/americaill
    #19thC #Engraving #Illustration #VintageGraphics
    #PublicDomain

  6. #ThickTrunkTuesday
    Gnarled oak tree from The Magazine of Natural History, pub. 1829
    "The trunk and limbs are characterized by their amazing strength, and by their comparative shortness and crookedness; and the branches by their numerous contortions and abrupt angles, and by the great variety with which they exhibit of straight and of crooked lines, and by their frequent tendency to a horizontal direction."
    archive.org/details/firstmagaz
    #BW
    #BlackAndWhite
    #VintageGraphics
    #PublicDomain
    #Illustration