Oh Captain Hartford !

"The Shooting Star" (L'Étoile filante) by J. J. Grandville, 1849.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Gustave Doré 

⭐️ The naturalist’s miscellany, or Coloured figures of natural objects. London: Printed for Nodder & Co., 1789-1813.

'dark dry sand drawing: compton bay, isle of wight, 6/87' in hand to earth: andy goldsworthy sculpture 1976-1990 (1990)

Edward Steichen

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

Ginkgo chair by Claude Lalanne

Eighth Heaven the Sphere of the Fixed Stars from Dante’s Divine Comedy, 1564

Wood engraving and monotype on Japanese paper

Franz Kline Painting No. 7 1952 Oil on canvas 57 1/2 x 81 3/4 inches (146 x 207.6 cm) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Plate no. 39 of Aby Warburg’s “Bilderatlas Mnemosyne (1925-1929) with reproductions of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” “Primavera” and “Pallas and the Centaur” Photo: Wootton/fluid. The Warburg Institute, London.

Félix Vallotton, Le Coup de vent (The Gust of Wind), 1894