Holy Mountaineering

From the Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Warboyse witches. It represents a famous case of witch persecution that occurred in Warboyse, England, at the end of 1592. It serves as an illustration or frontispiece in the historical book 'A Complete History of Magic, Sorcery, and Witchcraft', originally published in 1715 and written by the English author Richard Boulton.

In Memorium, St. + Hippolytus.

The Seven Angels with the Trumpet, from “The Apocalypse”. 1498. Credit line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/388122

This is an ancient Egyptian gold ring with a carved jasper frog, dating from 600–30 BC.

Arthur Rackham design endpapers Ingoldsby Legends

Lyon and Turnbull

Read Matthew Hargreaves on Blake and one of his most avid collectors Paul Mellon: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/william-blake-and-paul-mellon-the-life-of-the-mind #otd

The Walnut Tree in Benevento (The Witches' Sabbath) by Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti, 1822-26

Bronze ornament in the form of a seated male sphinx. ca. 27 BCE–14 CE. Credit line: Gift of Malcolm Wiener, on the occasion of the reinstallation of the Greek and Roman galleries, 2006 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/257862

from The Penn Museum