Hopeless Pedantic

Morganna Magee

House on the Hill

By Terra Keck

🌻 The ladies’ flower-garden of ornamental annuals.. London, W. S. Orr & co.[1849]. Original source Image description: Illustration from an 1849 botanical book showing a cluster of ornamental sunflowers in various colors, including white, deep red, purple, and yellow. The flowers have detailed, layered petals and prominent central discs. Stems and green leaves support the blooms, with some buds still closed. The image is labeled with botanical names at the bottom and marked “Pl. 35” in the top right corner, reflecting an old-fashioned scientific floral study style. The artwork highlights the diversity and elegance of sunflower varieties cultivated for decorative gardening.

Christopher Nevinson The Cat 1900s aquatint and etching Sheet: 40.1 x 25.5 cm (15 13/16 x 10 1/16 in.); Platemark: 17.6 x 13.6 cm (6 15/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

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Foxy: my collection of vintage fox imagery.

Times of the Day - Night's Rest “Repos de la nuit” 1899, Alphonse Mucha

Illutration by Laura Benson

A: Pholiota squarrosa, the shaggy scalycap, shown clustered on a decaying log. B: Locellina acetabulosa. C: Rozites caperata, the gypsy mushroom.

From the Cincinnati Art Museum

'Pandora'. Charles-Amable Lenoir. 1802. Detail.

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Petit Lenormand Divination Deck. Culture: French-German cartomancy tradition. Origin: Paris, France. Date: circa 1890 AD. Publisher: likely Ch. Didot, Paris. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Francesco Chiacchio

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