Clara Merula

Birgit Jürgenssen - Going to Bed Without Sleeping (1986)

Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris; CC0 Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet

The Calling of Samuel by Gustave Doré, 1877

Wangechi Mutu, Water Woman, 2017, Bronze, from the Ndoro Na Miti exhibit, Gladstone Gallery, New York

Keisai Eisen, Detail of Eiyū gashi, 1836

oil on panel, 1891 — source

More from the Wayback Machine; Baby, the Stars Shine Bright coords c. 2002-2003

🗺 Atlas manuel de botanique: Paris: J.-B. Baillière, [1886]. Original source Image description: Black and white botanical illustration from an 1886 French atlas showing nine numbered plant stem types and structures. Featured plants include a bulb with roots and flower, a cactus with spines and a large blossom, a long narrow leaf with small buds, climbing vine stems with leaves, a segmented root with offshoots, a flowering stem with a single seed pod, a tuber with roots and branches, a cross section of a bulb, and a thistle-like flower head. The detailed drawings highlight various stem forms, roots, and reproductive parts, labeled for botanical study. The page is titled “TIGE” (stem) and labeled Plate 2, XIII.

Monster Mother Has Forgotten Herself by Laura Benson

Alice and the Pirates - Gentildonna

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oil paint on paper, 100×70cm

Emre Tuna

🦑 Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer, 1912. Original source Image description: Detailed historical scientific illustration of a squid from the 1912 Plankton Expedition. The image focuses on the squid’s head and extended arms, showing the wide, webbed membranes connecting several arms with suction cups visible along the edges. The squid’s elongated tentacles extend downward, and its large eyes are partially visible near the base. The sepia-toned drawing highlights texture and anatomical features, emphasizing the squid’s distinctive fin structure and arm arrangement as part of cephalopod research.

An imperishable night 🎮