…from Codex Seraphinianus

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Hawksbill Turtle — Mark Catesby

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Edgar Allan Poe — Felix Vallotton

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Clown Making Up — John French Sloan

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Three Books

The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller. 1964 paperback by Penguin Books. Cover drawing by the English cartoonist and art critic Osbert Lancaster.

The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir. 1964 paperback by Penguin Books. Cover art by Anthony Common.

The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann. 1961 paperback by Penguin Books. Cover art by the English artist Brian Wildsmith, who is perhaps most famous for his marvelous children’s book illustrations.

Pushkin Girl — John Currin


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A Dream of Latmos — Joseph Noël Paton

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Voyage d’Hermès — Moebius

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A Giant Angel Rises from the Sea and on Land Armored Angels Battle Mounted Locusts — Hans Memling (Detail from the St John Altarpiece)

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Apocalypse Riders (Detail from the St John Altarpiece) — Hans Memling

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The Haunted Manor — William Holman Hunt

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Moa — Egon Schiele

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The Vision of St. Hubert — Jan Brueghel the Elder

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The Dream of the Fugitive — Viktor Madarász

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Two-Headed Lamb — Bartolomeo Bimbi

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The Bard, from Gray — William Blake

The Bard, from Gray ?1809 by William Blake 1757-1827