All things old, bizarre and beautiful

Illustrations of demons from Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 edition, by Jacques Collin de Plancy, illustrated by Louis le Breton

The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya, 1797–1799

Detail from Portrait of Pompeius Occo by Dirck Jacobsz, c. 1531

Illustrations from Spectropia ; or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour by J. H. Brown, 1864

(Image 'King death on the stage, lacing Kittie Tyrrel tightly. 19th C' courtesy of the Wellcome Collection, under CC BY 4.0)

(Detail from Cheerful company that is disturbed by death by Gesina ter Borch, 1660)

Image from Chemical Warfare by Amos A. Fries & Clarence J. West, 1921

Detail from Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche, 1833

(Image 'A patient suffering adverse effects of arsenic treatment.' by James Morison, courtesy of the Wellcome Collection under CC BY 4.0)

The Arsenic Waltz, an illustration from the Punch magazine, 1862

 by John Tenniel, from the Punch magazine, 1888

Kuoleman puutarha /The garden of Death by Hugo Simberg, 1896

From Gas! Know your chemical warfare by The United States Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1944

Illustration from Peterson's Magazine January to June 1888

Still Life with Books, Sheet Music, Violin, Celestial Globe and an Owl by Jacob van Campen, 1645 - 1650

Illustration by Arthur Ignatius Keller, 1906, from The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The eye, as a bizarre balloon, heading towards INFINITY by Odilon Redon, 1882