John Bingley Garland...Victorian Blood Book... Sept 1854

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Assembled from several hundred engravings, many taken from books of etchings by William Blake, as well as other illustrations from early nineteenth-century books. The principal motifs are natural (birds, animals, and especially snakes) and Christian (images of the crucifixion, scenes from the Bible, and crusaders). Drops of red india ink and extensive religious commentary have been added to many of the images.

inscribed "To Amy Lester Garland--A legacy left in his lifetime for her future examination by her affectionate father" September 1st 1854

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Teaching Dhamma by Pictures...Siamese Traditional Buddhist Manuscript ...Ven. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

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from the book “Teaching Dhamma by Pictures”
Explanation of a Siamese Traditional Buddhist Manuscript
by Ven. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

Published by 
Sathirakoses-Nagaparadi Foundation & Ministry of Education, Thailand
On the occassion of the Centenary Celebration of the Bith of the Ven. Buddhadasa Bhikku

The illustrated manuscript reproduced here was, in the original, a traditional Thai 
manuscript called Samut Khoi which is a long roll of paper folded concertina-wise into 
leaves and then written on both sides. In this form, the illustration was presented first, 
followed by a few lines of explanation on a particular aspect of Dhamma such as 
Meditation and so forth. Cambodian script was used in those days for all religious work 
thought the language is Siamese. 
The pigments used were produced locally, most of them derived from native trees. 

Teaching Dhamma by Pictures

Stultifera navis (Ship of Fools) ... Sebastian Brant... woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer... 1498

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Woodcuts attributed to  Albrecht Durer. Illustrations from the book

Stulifera navis (Ship of fools) by Sebastian Brant, published by

Johann Bergmann in Basel in 1498

Five Foolish Virgins

The Ship of Sight

Fools far, near and Forever

He Who Judges Others

Of Gods Plagues and Punishments

The Ship of Touch

Of Dancing

Of Luck

Of Scorned Joy

Of Wooing

Edward Topsell ...The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents ... woodcuts 1658

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Published in 1658, The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents depicts both real and fantastical creatures in detailed woodcuts. A wide swath of the animal kingdom is represented, including mammals, reptiles,amphibians, insects, and marine life, as well as an array of mythical beasts. 

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Leon Kelly (1901-1982)...painting and drawings...

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LE POÈTE ZOOLOGISTE, 1946

THE SIENESE REPTILE, 1946

THE POET OF THE MOUNTAIN, 1946

CATALONIAN FABLE SALTAMONTÉS Y RANA, 1946

EMBRYONIC PORTRAITS, 1946

COCOONS, 1946

CAVE OF THE LIMPID POOL, 1944

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Diego Rivera... The Popol Vuh... illustrations 1930-33

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In 1930, while in San Francisco, Mexican artist Diego Rivera began a series of illustration for 

a translation of the Popol Vuh by North American writer John Weatherwax. Both men shared

 a fascination with the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica. The Popol Vuh, or council book, 

recounts the ideas and traditions, origins and dynastic chronology up to the year 1550 of 

the ancient Quiché Maya inhabitants of the highlands of present-day Guatemala.

Beginning as oral tradition, the Popol Vuh was set down in hieroglyphic form, then into what 

Popol Vuh scholar Dennis Tedlock has called an “alphabetic substitute,” before being 

transcribed and translated into Spanish by the Dominican friar Francisco Ximénez in the eighteenth century.

The Creation

Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.

Watercolor and gouache on paper. 48 × 64 cm. (19 × 25¼ in.)

The Trials of Hero Twins 

Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.

Watercolor and gouache on paper. 

31 × 48 cm. (12¼ × 18¾ in.)

Human Sacrifice Before Tohil 

Illustration for Popol Vuh, 1930–1933.

Gouache on paper. 

31 × 48 cm. (12¼ × 18¾ in.)

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Battle 1932

Shot 1930

Idea (Fleeing Soul) 1929

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Marian Wawrzeniecki ( 1863 – 1943)... the painter of witches..sketches & paintings

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Slavic Victim

Our Life 1937

Spring Sacrifice 1937

Dola 1937

Art and Criticism with us or torture witch

Death appeases all c 1905

Marcel Chirnoagă(1930-2008) ... Bacchanalia ...Aquatint and etching

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Marcel Chirnoagă(1930-2008) ... Eternal Battle ...Aquatint and etching

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Georg Trakl (1887-1914)... Self Portrait & poem. .. 1913

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Born, February 3, 1887 - Died, November 3, 1914

Painted Probably on 11.30.1913, Innsbruck in the studio of Max von Esterle

The Deep Song

From deep night I was released.

My soul is astonished in immortality,

My soul listens over space and time

To the melody of eternity!

Not day and lust, not night and suffering

Is the melody of eternity,

And since I listened to eternity,

I feel no more lust and suffering!

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May Den Engelsen... illustrations...Charles Baudelaire's Condemned Poems... 1927

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Lesbos

Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,

Lesbos, where kisses, languishing or joyous,

Burning as the sun's light, cool as melons,

Adorn the nights and the glorious days;

Mother of Latin games and Greek delights,

Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades 

That throw themselves boldly into bottomless chasms 

And flow, sobbing and gurgling intermittently, 

Stormy and secret, teeming and profound; 

Lesbos, where the kisses are like cascades!

Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,

Where for every sigh there is an answering sigh,

The stars admire you as much as Paphos,

And Venus may rightly be jealous of Sappho!

Lesbos, where courtesans feel drawn toward each other,

Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights,

That make the hollow-eyed girls, amorous

Of their own bodies, caress before their mirrors

The ripe fruits of their nubility, O sterile pleasure!

    Lesbos, land of hot and languorous nights...

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Illustrations from Condemned Poems illustrated by May Den Engelsen, published 1927

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Louis Marcoussis...illustrations for Guillaume Apollinaire's Alcohol... 1913

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The Betrothal, etching, plate 29 from Alcools, 1934

“And the solitary cord of sea lutes.”

Singer, plate eight from Alcools, 1934

Moonlight, plate 30 from Alcools, 1934

Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened

The orchards and towns are greedy tonight

The stars appear like the image of bees

Of this luminous honey that offends the vines

For now all sweet in their fall from the sky

Each ray of moonlight’s a ray of honey

Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure

I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee

that sets these deceptive rays in my hands

And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds

Lul of Faltenin, plate eighteen from Alcools, 1934

Rosemonde, plate 21 from Alcools, 1934

I named her Rosemonde

Lest I forget

Mouth flowered in Holland

Then slowly I took my way

Seeking the rose of the world

Edvard Munch... Vignette... Satyr's Head...1908-09

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Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk

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An allegory of lost love 

Karl Priebe (1914-1976)... painting

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 “Rehearsal for a Suicide”, c.1946 watercolor, colored pencil and mixed media/black paper, 16” x 20”

Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) ... paintings...

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Untitled (Ballet for Owl), 1952

The Ivory Tower, 1945

Head on a plate 1936

Maurice de Becque... illustrations... La Satire sur les femmes de Juvénal... 1923

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