illustration
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I tend to focus on portraits and paintings and such like, but sometimes a pattern like this is too beautiful to pass up.
Front cover from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock. London, 1904.
(Source: archive.org)
thistles make the prettiest patterns
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A later illustration of Wilkie Collins 1890
Published in Illustrirte Welt (Illustrated World). Engraving based on a photograph taken at the same time as that published by F M Lupton as a frontispeice to The Yellow Mask around this time. (info from here) -
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Corianton Hale
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Buckingham’s Die for the Whiskers
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Bellingham’s Stimulating Onguent for the Hair & Whiskers, ca 1870
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How little changes…I work in advertising (don’t judge me! I merely create the ads rather than design them, far too soul destroying for my like) and just like the terrible Burger King 9/11 free fries ad, I have had a few of these forced on me…one of them was to edit footage of Hitler to make him ‘humorous’ – I was not amused.
November 11th, 1917
War! What is it good for?… Hard sell advertising apparently.
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Picture of General Lee from Old Virginia Blog
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Vicky’s bit of rough
John Brown
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