Victoria's Rusty Knickers

Octopus from Conradi Gesneri’s Historiae Animalium - published in 1551

‘The great Temple of Abu Simbel’ - Illustration by David Roberts, R.A. From ‘Eygpt and Nubia’, published in 1842

‘The Fossil Elk’ - Engraving published by W. H. Lizars in Edinburgh - 1830s

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‘La Vie Électrique - Sulfatin lançant une Chaise à travers le Télé (The Electrical Life - Sulfatin flings a chair at the telly)’ - Illustration by Albert Robida - c1890

Illustration from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, by John Tenniel  - 1905

‘Common Objects at the Seaside - Generally found upon the Rocks at low Water’ - Victorian ‘Beach Bums’ lampooned in Punch on August 21, 1858

‘Gramen paniculatum’ - Plate published in Sébastien Vaillant’s ‘Botanicon Parisiense’ - 1727

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The first Phone Call - just a trifle short of yelling distance… Book Illustration published in the 1800s

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‘Doryanthes excelsa’ - Plate 13 from Ferdinand Bauer’s Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandiae, published in London - 1813 

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Flamingo - Illustration from the Natural History of Carolina by Mark Catesby - published in the early 1700s

sugarmeows:

From Une Semaine de Bonté (1934) – Max Ernst (German, 1891–1976)

vintagegal:

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse 1886

Sylvain Dornon, a stiltwalking shepherd from Landes in southern France, set out on a journey from Paris to Moscow on the 12th of March 1891. His fifty-eight day walk constituted a genuine curiosity to the Russians, to whom this sort of locomotion was unknown.
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(Source: whatbexlovestoday, via scientificillustration)