Women playing drums (XII century).
From Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l’époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance (Reasoned dictionary of French furniture from the Carolingian era to the Renaissance), vol. 2 by E. Viollet-Le-Duc. Paris, 1873.
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Mill on the lake of Lungern (Switzerland).
From a painting by George Balmer. From The gallery of modern British artists, London, 1834.
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the one with the van reminds me of E.T opening scene
Punchinello: And you would be?…
Death: Death.Edmond Morin, from Les bons contes font les bons amis (Bad tales make bad friends), by Champfleury, Paris, 1863.
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Look at Death’s hat. That is a great hat
Skinwell’s death.
John Leech, from Colin Clink vol. 2, by Charles Hooton, London, 1841.
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Storm at the top, and when we gain’d it, storm
Round us and deathW. L. Taylor, from The Holy Grail, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Boston, 1887.
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That night they reached the very heart of the Sierra Morena
Gustave Doré, from El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha) vol. 1, by Miguel de Cervantes, Barcelona, 1892.
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Leaning on his lance, gazed on his armour without taking his eyes off it for ever so long
Gustave Doré, from El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The ingenious gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha) vol. 1, by Miguel de Cervantes, Barcelona, 1892.
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The bear and the behive.
Ernest Griset, from Æsop’s fables, with text based chiefly upon Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange, London, New York, 1869.
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The bear seized Kalumah by the clothes.
(She’ll be all right…)Jules Férat, from The fur country, by Jules Verne, Boston, 1874.
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