“ The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”
extra from the 50 Watts post: Illustrations by Shigeru Hatsuyama for Thumbelina (and other tales) (Japan, 1925)
My new book OBJECT 10 is now available to order from the publisher Floating World Comics site. It presents a big selection of my drawings. 80 pages, hardcover 9.25 x 12.25 (inch) in color and a couple of b&w images as well.
Illustration by Seiko for the Odyssey, 1929, from a series of Japanese children’s textbooks.
detail of “dear Susan” from page six of Clever Bill, 1926, William Nicholson
The illustrator of Margery Williams‘ The Velveteen Rabbit, Nicholson wrote and illustrated just two children’s books in his life, the first of which was Clever Bill. It will be on exhibit at NYPL for the upcoming The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter.
Gold and Sodium
Will Cure All Kinds of Female Complaints.
To Purify the Blood it is Warranted.
Mishlers Garden (Philadelphia: R. F. Reynolds, ca. 1874) Crayon lithograph, tinted with three stones. Courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
via @BibliOdyssey
Lacouture, Répertoire chromatique, 1890 via Gewerbe Museum
Виктор Васнецов - Херувимы. Эскизы росписи Владимирского собора в Киеве. 1885 - 1893
Space bread. Illustration by Koji Numata, late 70s. From an August 2012 post.
