chemistry & art

1921-1923

Charles Baudelaire’s copy of the French 1st edition of Les Fleurs du Mal turned to the poem Spleen

Immortal blossoms in an everlasting spring - Lang Shining (Giuseppe Castiglione, 1688-1766), Qing dynasty - via National Palace Museum

Details from studies of two girl’s heads and profiles by François Boucher (French, 1703-1770). Red and black chalk heightened with white. 

The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America - John James Audubon - c.1845-1848 - via NYPL (also via Internet Archive vol.1 and vol.2)

Bordure - maquette de papier peint -Jules Duvinage - 1904 - via Paris Bibliotheques

Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Countess Carolina Sommaruga Maraini, ca. 1880-1933

➳ Polyjuice Potion + required ingredients. (insp) 

Illustrations by Bulgarian artist, Nikolay Stoyanov for HOW THE CROW BECAME A SINGER (1973).

Have cats ever been drawn better? American author/illustrator, Clare Turlay Newberry (1903-1970).

1920s movie poster designs by Boris Bilinsky (1900-1948).

Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954), Vue sur la mer à Tahiti [View of the Sea, Tahiti], 1930. Pen and India ink on paper, 25.1 x 32.6 cm.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954)

1921-1923

Continuing our explorations of the wonderful world of vintage matchbook labels…

British illustrators/sisters, Janet Grahame Johnstone (1928–1979) and Anne Grahame Johnstone (1928–1998).