“- I would have bet on it… instead of taking him to see Séraphin you take him to a drama.... it's bad enough for adults already, poor little thing!... - Don't worry Madame, this is the way children are enjoying themselves,” plate 34 from Moeurs Conjugales
Bouquet with Tulips, from Collection of Different Bouquets of Flowers, Invented and Drawn by Jean Pillement and Engraved by P. C. Canot
Mounted ink wash landscape with trees and footbridge
martin gerlach decorative images of plants and animals
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
With that Play One Catches Only Blows
Feldspar and Petuntse (Silex Petuntse)
The Quarry
Clematis Cerulea; Hollyhocks
Michelangelo Caetani, Veduta Interna Dell'Inferno (Cross Section of Hell), 1855. – Source
Young Anglers, plate 32 from Liber Studiorum
Study of a Landscape
“The Sun and Moon in the just Proportion of their mean Diameters, with two of the Comets A and B, and the five erratick Planets, as they are observed at the Earth, in a middle State of their Distances from it.”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)
Fig. 1. Systema Ptolemaecum, Fig. 2. Systema Platonicum, Fig. 3. Systema Aegyptiacum, Fig. 4. Systema Tychonicum, Fig. 5. Systema Semi-Tychonicum, Fig. 6. Systema Copernicanum
“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection”.
Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
Port of Clwyd and South Brent, Devon, from Picturesque Selections
illustration of Japanese firework
An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
“- I would have bet on it… instead of taking him to see Séraphin you take him to a drama.... it's bad enough for adults already, poor little thing!... - Don't worry Madame, this is the way children are enjoying themselves,” plate 34 from Moeurs Conjugales
Bouquet with Tulips, from Collection of Different Bouquets of Flowers, Invented and Drawn by Jean Pillement and Engraved by P. C. Canot
Mounted ink wash landscape with trees and footbridge
Michelangelo Caetani, Figura Universale Della Divina Commedia (Overview of the Divine Comedy), 1855. – Source
Plate 29, Volume 1 – Source
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
martin gerlach decorative images of plants and animals
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Butterfly wing eyespot (Vol. 2)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
“Part of a Medal representing the Solar System”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
With that Play One Catches Only Blows
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Michelangelo Caetani, Figura Universale Della Divina Commedia (Overview of the Divine Comedy), 1855. – Source
Feldspar and Petuntse (Silex Petuntse)
The Quarry
illustration of Japanese firework
Sphere de Ptolomee, a beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's curious decorative chart of the Spheres (1775)
Clematis Cerulea; Hollyhocks
Michelangelo Caetani, Veduta Interna Dell'Inferno (Cross Section of Hell), 1855. – Source
Young Anglers, plate 32 from Liber Studiorum
Study of a Landscape
Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
The planet Jupiter
Classical design
A Prince
Empyreum ...
“The Sun and Moon in the just Proportion of their mean Diameters, with two of the Comets A and B, and the five erratick Planets, as they are observed at the Earth, in a middle State of their Distances from it.”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Pandy Mill, Church Pool, and one other subject, from Picturesque Selections
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Villette Dock, plate five from Le Long de la Seine et des Boulevards
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)
Vignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita
Blistered Sulphuret of Copper (Cuprum sulphureum)
Fig. 1. Systema Ptolemaecum, Fig. 2. Systema Platonicum, Fig. 3. Systema Aegyptiacum, Fig. 4. Systema Tychonicum, Fig. 5. Systema Semi-Tychonicum, Fig. 6. Systema Copernicanum
Too Late!
“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection”.
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
Return Walk, plate four from Suite de Divers Habillements de Peuples du Nord
Port of Clwyd and South Brent, Devon, from Picturesque Selections
Illustration of ancient and modern emblems
illustration of Japanese firework
An Interrupted English Dinner Party at Paris from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)
“[Hemisphere] where the true Tract of this most surprizing Zone of Light is distinguished amongst the principal Stars.”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Michelangelo Caetani, Figura Universale Della Divina Commedia (Overview of the Divine Comedy), 1855. – Source
Plate 29, Volume 1 – Source
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Butterfly wing eyespot (Vol. 2)
“Part of a Medal representing the Solar System”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Michelangelo Caetani, Figura Universale Della Divina Commedia (Overview of the Divine Comedy), 1855. – Source
illustration of Japanese firework
Sphere de Ptolomee, a beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's curious decorative chart of the Spheres (1775)
Nature Through Microscope and Camera (1909)
The planet Jupiter
Classical design
A Prince
Empyreum ...
Pandy Mill, Church Pool, and one other subject, from Picturesque Selections
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
Villette Dock, plate five from Le Long de la Seine et des Boulevards
Vignette to Mr. Constable's English Landscape. Hampstead Heath Middlesex. Ut Umbra sic Vita
Blistered Sulphuret of Copper (Cuprum sulphureum)
Too Late!
W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life (1900)
Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
Return Walk, plate four from Suite de Divers Habillements de Peuples du Nord
Illustration of ancient and modern emblems
“[Hemisphere] where the true Tract of this most surprizing Zone of Light is distinguished amongst the principal Stars.”
Karl Blossfeldt’s Urformen der Kunst (1928)
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