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Nyoka the Jungle Girl (No.14, Dec 1947)
Gant Neyret gloves, 1950s
This painting was on the cover of the paperback “Ask Me No Questions” by Carter McCord in 1965. Illustration by Paul Rader
got to love that fifties-sixties paperback cover art. always so much fun to look at.
Alice In Wonderland Concept Art by Mary Blair. - c. 1951
(via The Bestiarium of Aloys Zötl (1831-1887) | The Public Domain Review)
The Sea Turtle (1867)
These beautiful watercolours come from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl’s Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887. He was relatively unknown until, decades after his death, his work was “re-discovered” by surrealist André Breton who was taken by the surrealist aesthetic he saw present in the images – as he writes: “Lacking any biographical details about the artist, one can only indulge one’s fantasies in imagining the reasons which might have induced this workman from Upper Austria, a dyer by profession, to undertake so zealously between 1832 and 1887 the elaboration of the most sumptuous bestiary ever seen.”
‘Displaying the Various Phenomena of the Atmosphere’ - Diagram of Meteorology, 1846 - drawn and engraved by John Emslie. Written by James Reynolds of 174 Strand in London, 1850-1860.
beautiful
Northanger Abbey covers, Marvel Comics, by Julian Totino Tedesco
will someone please for the love of god do jane eyre so i can die happy?
