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Battle of Lepanto in 1571, 1877, Gustave Dore

Untitled, Man Ray, 1930, MoMA: Photography

Gift of James Thrall Soby Size: 11 ½ × 7 7/8" (29.2 × 20 cm) Medium: Gelatin silver print

Disparate: Que Guerrero, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, c. 1820, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

two figures in scarecorw-like costume standing in front of a small huddled crowd; a boy in the front of the crowd turns his backend to the scarecrow figures and laughs with his hand by his mouth In this nightmarish image, a shadowy group of small figures cowers before two large figures, one obscured by his cape, the other in silhouette but clearly wielding a sword in his upraised hand. Just one of the small figures is illuminated, a man who turns away from the looming giants. Is he retreating, or is he showing them his rear’ As is the case with the other plates in Goya’s series, called “Los Proverbios” or “Disperates” [Follies], this image is difficult to pin down. Size: 9 5/8 × 14 in. (24.45 × 35.56 cm) (plate) Medium: Etching and aquatint

Man Ray :: Portrait de Lee Miller. Sans lieu ni date, vers 1935. Ravissant portrait de Lee Miller nue, allongée dans l'herbe, le corps recouvert d'un filet de pêche. | Lovely portrait of Lee Miller naked, lying in the grass, her body covered with a fishing net. Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn Library. La photographie a été reproduite dans le Dictionnaire abrégé du Surréalisme (Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1938) dans la section La Femme surréaliste. | src La Gazette Drouot + Drouot Digital

The Widow II, 1922, Käthe Kollwitz

Khristolyubivoe voinstvo (Christian Host) from Misticheskie obrazy voiny. 14 litografii (Mystical Images of War: Fourteen Lithographs), Natalia Goncharova, 1914, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation Size: composition (irreg.): 12 ¼ x 9 1/16" (31.1 x 23 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 x 9 5/8" (32.3 x 24.5 cm) Medium: One from a portfolio of fourteen lithographs

“Our galaxy, an example of the spiral nebula type.” Natural history. 1963.

“Procession of the fairies on the first of May.”  From Fairy Land by Villamaria, 1876.

If you like fairies or are one, here’s my current collection of vintage fairy imagery.

The Worst Is Yet to Come - Pain Is Self Pleasure

Polar Summer

Fig. 13. Atlantosaurus, restored. A picture book of evolution. 1906.