Category: illustration, dessin, drawing, etching, drypoint, aquatint, gouache, watercolor, Zeichnung, Entwurf, disegno, illustrazione

Midst of all was a cold white face

«Midst of all was a cold white face» (p. 126)
Harry Clarke :: Illustration for the poem Black and White (H. H. Abbott), collected in ‘The year’s at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry’. New York: Brentanos, 1920.
src University of California Libraries at Internet Archive

With magic key… unlocking buds

«With magic key… unlocking buds» (p. 103)
Harry Clarke :: Illustration for the poem To the Coming Spring (Margaret Mackenzie), collected in ‘The year’s at the spring; an anthology of recent poetry’. New York: Brentanos, 1920.
src University of California Libraries at Internet Archive

Lili Malberg als Salome, 1936

Zur Erinnerung an den verstorbenen Wiener Maler Clemens von Pausinger. Lili Malberg als Salome, ein besonders berühmtes Poträt Pausingers. | In memory of the late Viennese painter Clemens von Pausinger. Lili Malberg as Salome, a particularly famous portrait by Pausinger. Published in Die Bühne, 1936, Heft 416. | src Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Cast up by the sea, 1873

Winslow Homer :: The wreck of the “Atlantic” – Cast up by the sea. Published in: Harper’s Weekly, Volume XVII, 26 April 1873, p. 345. Drawn by Winslow Homer. Signed: W H. |src Boston Public Library
The wreck of the "Atlantic" - Cast up by the sea by Winslow Homer. Published in: Harper's Weekly, April 1873 (full page)
The wreck of the “Atlantic” – Cast up by the sea by Winslow Homer. Published in: Harper’s Weekly, April 1873 (full page)

(Visual connections)

Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais

La mort (naufrage) de Virginie

Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais
Jean Baptiste Bertrand :: Gravure reproduction of “La Mort de Virginie”, 1869. Goupil & Cie, Paris. Based on the oil painting (Jean Baptiste Bertrand, aka James Bertrand). | src RMN-Grand Palais

(theme connections)

Naufrage de Virginie / Gravure de Barthélémy Joseph Fulcran Roger (1767 – 1841), d’après Pierre Paul Prud’hon (1758 – 1823)
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Paul et Virginie. Paris: Pierre Didot l’Ainé, 1806.
Engraving after Prudhon. Luxury edition put together by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. | src Bonhams

Voyage de l’Astrolabe, 1826-1829

Sèche Vermiculee ~ Sèche Mamelonnée (Cap de Bonne-Espérance). Voyage de la corvette l’Astrolabe. Paris. J. Tastu ed., 1830-1834. Alternative: Voyage de decouvertes de l’Astrolabe. 1826-1829 par Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842) | Dry Vermiculee ~ Dry Nipple (Cape of Good Hope). Voyage of the corvette the Astrolabe. Paris. J. Tastu ed., 1830-1834. Alternative: Journey of discovery of the Astrolabe. 1826-1829 by Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville (1790-1842) | src BHL ~ Biodiversity Heritage Library

Pepper cephalopods, 1889

Pfeffer Cephalopoden. Diestelmann gez. Ergebnisse der in dem Atlantischen Ocean von Mitte Juli bis Anfang November 1889 ausgeführten Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. Verlag von Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, Leipzig (1892-1913).| Pepper cephalopods. Signed Diestelmann. Results of the Humboldt Foundation’s plankton expedition in the Atlantic Ocean from mid-July to early November 1889. Published by Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, Leipzig (1892-1913)| src BHL ~ Biodiversity Heritage Library

‘Poulpe colossal’, 1802

Facsimile of De Monfort’s ‘Poulpe colossal’. Colossal Octopus attacking a sailing vessel off the coast of Angola. Illustration by French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) first published in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques in 1802 as described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers.