Nostr notes by Old Book Illustrations

These balls were nothing less than planets. J.-J. Grandville, ...

2026-05-24T09:03:37+02:00

These balls were nothing less than planets.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Un autre monde" by Taxile Delord, Paris: 1844 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/balls-planets/

Departure of a transatlantic balloon. From "Le vingtième ...

2026-04-23T08:54:31+02:00

Departure of a transatlantic balloon.
From "Le vingtième siècle" written & illustrated by Albert Robida, Paris: 1883 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/transatlantic-balloon/

Inhabitants of the sea. Alphonse de Neuville, from "Vingt ...

2026-04-10T22:48:59+02:00

Inhabitants of the sea.
Alphonse de Neuville, from "Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers" by Jules Verne, Paris: [1871?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/inhabitants-sea/

She at last came to the Prince, who could scarcely swim. Gordon ...

2026-04-08T06:27:24+02:00

She at last came to the Prince, who could scarcely swim.
Gordon Browne, from "Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen" London: 1919 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/came-prince/

Away flew the trunk with him. Gordon Browne, from "Fairy ...

2026-04-07T22:05:07+02:00

Away flew the trunk with him.
Gordon Browne, from "Fairy Tales from Hans Andersen" London: 1919 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/flew-trunk/

He led the trembling Aslog over the snow and ice-fields away to ...

2026-04-07T07:17:16+02:00

He led the trembling Aslog over the snow and ice-fields away to the mountains.
Warwick Goble, from "The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Craik, London: 1913 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/away-mountains/

There, one day, he heard a voice, and presently after was ...

2026-04-07T01:16:06+02:00

There, one day, he heard a voice, and presently after was surprised by the appearance of a mermaid.
Warwick Goble, from "The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Craik, London: 1913 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/appearance-mermaid/

Owls and poppies. William Strang, from "Lucian's True ...

2026-04-04T02:51:26+02:00

Owls and poppies.
William Strang, from "Lucian's True History" by Lucian of Samosata, London: 1902 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/owls-poppies/

South Australian cobbler Jacques Reyne Isidore Acarie-Baron, from ...

2026-03-30T19:59:58+02:00

South Australian cobbler
Jacques Reyne Isidore Acarie-Baron, from "Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation," atlas vol. 4, by Cuvier et al., Paris: 1836-1849 #illustration #art #fish https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/atlantic-wreckfish/

I looked to my side, but instead of a charming figure, what did I ...

2026-03-27T19:39:20+01:00

I looked to my side, but instead of a charming figure, what did I see?
Édouard de Beaumont, from "Le Diable Amoureux" by Jacques Cazotte, Paris: 1871 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/looked-side/

He was the last of the Burckars. Théophile Schuler, from ...

2026-03-27T02:32:53+01:00

He was the last of the Burckars.
Théophile Schuler, from "Contes et romans populaires" by Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian, Paris: n.d. #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/last-burckar/

Lady Macbeth. Joseph Kenny Meadows, from "The Heroines of ...

2026-03-26T04:05:20+01:00

Lady Macbeth.
Joseph Kenny Meadows, from "The Heroines of Shakespeare," Boston: [1850?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lady-macbeth/

Miranda. John Hayter, from "The Heroines of Shakespeare," ...

2026-03-26T01:23:18+01:00

Miranda.
John Hayter, from "The Heroines of Shakespeare," Boston: [1850?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/miranda/

I fear thee and thy glittering eye. Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe, from ...

2026-03-24T03:57:40+01:00

I fear thee and thy glittering eye.
Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe, from "The Poems of Coleridge" London, New York: [1907] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/glittering-eye/

The game is done! I've won, I've won! Gerald Fenwick ...

2026-03-23T17:41:08+01:00

The game is done! I've won, I've won!
Gerald Fenwick Metcalfe, from "The Poems of Coleridge" London, New York: [1907] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/won/

In caverns by the water-side, And other places that I've ...

2026-03-23T01:30:30+01:00

In caverns by the water-side,
And other places that I've tried.
Peter Newell, from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll, London, New York: 1903 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/caverns/

Yet with a tinge of bitterness, She said “The more exceeds the ...

2026-03-22T22:54:49+01:00

Yet with a tinge of bitterness,
She said “The more exceeds the less.”
Peter Newell, from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll, London, New York: 1903 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/more-exceeds-less/

I’ve often sat and howled for hours, Drenched to the skin with ...

2026-03-22T17:49:40+01:00

I’ve often sat and howled for hours,
Drenched to the skin with driving showers.
Peter Newell, from "The Hunting of the Snark" by Lewis Carroll, London, New York: 1903 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/howled/

Ornaments with foliage and scroll motifs. From "Standard ...

2026-03-21T23:06:52+01:00

Ornaments with foliage and scroll motifs.
From "Standard scroll book" by Moser, David H. et al., New York: 1876 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/scroll-book-27/

Ornaments with foliate and scroll motifs. From "Standard ...

2026-03-21T17:48:30+01:00

Ornaments with foliate and scroll motifs.
From "Standard scroll book" by Moser, David H. et al., New York: 1876 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/scroll-book-22/

Three ornaments with foliage designs. From "Standard scroll ...

2026-03-21T13:18:21+01:00

Three ornaments with foliage designs.
From "Standard scroll book" by Moser, David H. et al., New York: 1876 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/scroll-book-9/

Out of the fire flew a beautiful bird, who, singing deliciously, ...

2026-03-20T14:19:56+01:00

Out of the fire flew a beautiful bird, who, singing deliciously, rose up high into the air.
Warwick Goble, from "The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Craik, London: 1913 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/beautiful-bird/

Jack... seized the hen, and ran off with her... reached the top ...

2026-03-20T07:42:57+01:00

Jack... seized the hen, and ran off with her... reached the top of the bean-stalk, which he descended in safety.
Warwick Goble, from "The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Craik, London: 1913 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bean-stalk/

At evening-tide she climbed up into a little tree. Warwick Goble, ...

2026-03-20T02:53:31+01:00

At evening-tide she climbed up into a little tree.
Warwick Goble, from "The Fairy Book" by Dinah Maria Craik, London: 1913 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/climbed-up-tree/

A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was ...

2026-03-09T05:32:23+01:00

A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from "La Guerre des Mondes" by Herbert George Wells, Brussels: 1906 #illustration #art #ScienceFiction https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/grayish-rounded-bulk/

And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and ...

2026-03-08T23:02:03+01:00

And then the Martian beside us raised his tube on high and discharged it...
Henrique Alvim Corrêa, from "La Guerre des Mondes" by Herbert George Wells, Brussels: 1906 #illustration #art #ScienceFiction https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/raised-tube/

The three little kittens going to eat the pie. From "Three ...

2026-03-08T01:26:38+01:00

The three little kittens going to eat the pie.
From "Three Little Kittens" by Robert Michael Ballantyne, Edinburgh, London, New York: 1859 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/going-eat-pie/

In the garden of Youth. Charles Dana Gibson, from "Sketches ...

2026-03-04T00:48:42+01:00

In the garden of Youth.
Charles Dana Gibson, from "Sketches and Cartoons," New York: 1900 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/garden-youth/

Baobab at Mohéli. Hercule Catenacci, from "Le tour du ...

2026-03-03T01:39:46+01:00

Baobab at Mohéli.
Hercule Catenacci, from "Le tour du monde," collective work, Leipzig, London, Paris: 1864 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/baobab/

Bombardment of Strasbourg. Jules Férat, from "Histoire de la ...

2026-03-01T05:35:31+01:00

Bombardment of Strasbourg.
Jules Férat, from "Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71" by Jules Claretie, Paris: 1871 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/bombardment-strasbourg/

High on a throne of royal state. Gustave Doré, from ...

2026-02-26T21:18:12+01:00

High on a throne of royal state.
Gustave Doré, from "Milton's Paradise Lost" New York: [ca. 1880?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/high-throne/

The enthusiasm grew boundless. J.-J. Grandville, from "Un ...

2026-02-20T23:06:51+01:00

The enthusiasm grew boundless.
J.-J. Grandville, from "Un autre monde" by Taxile Delord, Paris: 1844 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/two-dancers/

Death Delivers the Sword to the People. Alfred Rethel, from ...

2026-02-19T05:31:05+01:00

Death Delivers the Sword to the People.
Alfred Rethel, from "Alfred Rethel; 16 Zeichnungen und Entwürfe" by Walther Friedrich, Mainz: 1907 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sword-people/

Death in Front of the Tavern. Alfred Rethel, from "Alfred ...

2026-02-19T02:03:28+01:00

Death in Front of the Tavern.
Alfred Rethel, from "Alfred Rethel; 16 Zeichnungen und Entwürfe" by Walther Friedrich, Mainz: 1907 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/death-tavern/

Carlo Chiostri, title page of "Le Avventure di Pinocchio" ...

2026-02-09T15:34:16+01:00

Carlo Chiostri, title page of "Le Avventure di Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, Florence: [1902] #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/pinocchio-title/

Erland tied to the tree. Carl Larsson, from "Singoalla" ...

2025-10-13T02:27:24+02:00

Erland tied to the tree.
Carl Larsson, from "Singoalla" by Viktor Rydberg, Stockholm: 1894 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tied-tree/

Invitation to the meeting of the 1900 World's Fair Committee. ...

2025-10-04T17:36:22+02:00

Invitation to the meeting of the 1900 World's Fair Committee.
Albert Robida, from "Les menus & programmes illustrés" by Léon Maillard, Paris: 1898 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/world-fair-commitee/

Niton Church. Henry Winkles, from "Barber's Picturesque ...

2025-04-09T05:12:10+02:00

Niton Church.
Henry Winkles, from "Barber's Picturesque Illustrations of the Isle of Wight" by Thomas Barber, London: [1834?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/niton-church/

A mysterious business. From "Le voyage de M. Dumollet," ...

2025-04-08T16:41:16+02:00

A mysterious business.
From "Le voyage de M. Dumollet," written & illustrated by Albert Robida, Paris: [1883] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/mysterious-business/

Swineherd. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, from "Album des ...

2025-04-07T12:45:44+02:00

Swineherd.
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, from "Album des beaux-arts" Paris: [1843?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/swineherd/

Ave atque vale. From "Under the Hill" written & ...

2025-04-06T15:31:10+02:00

Ave atque vale.
From "Under the Hill" written & illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, London: [1928] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ave-vale/

Katherine. John William Wright, from "The Heroines of ...

2025-04-03T01:07:34+02:00

Katherine.
John William Wright, from "The Heroines of Shakespeare," Boston: [1850?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/katherine/

Nothing could scare the quacks, however. Cecil Aldin, from ...

2025-04-02T13:35:50+02:00

Nothing could scare the quacks, however.
Cecil Aldin, from "Cecil Aldin's Merry Party" by May Clarissa Gillington Byron, London: 1913 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/scare-quacks/

To and fro Swang the swing. John Everett Millais, from "Once ...

2025-04-01T17:51:06+02:00

To and fro
Swang the swing.
John Everett Millais, from "Once a week," vol. 5 (June-December 1861), London: 1861 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/to-fro-swing/

The fairies flew away. Charles Henry Bennett, from "The ...

2025-03-31T21:03:02+02:00

The fairies flew away.
Charles Henry Bennett, from "The Chicken Market and Other Fairy Tales" by Henry Morley, London, New York, Paris: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/clear-head/

She took a clean dish To get him some tripe, But when she came ...

2025-03-29T20:13:23+01:00

She took a clean dish
To get him some tripe,
But when she came back
He was smoking a pipe.
From "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes," London, New York: 1877 #illustration #ChildrensBook #dogs https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/smoking-pipe/

I reached the giraffe, caught his tail, raised myself up to his ...

2025-03-28T21:50:04+01:00

I reached the giraffe, caught his tail, raised myself up to his back, crawled along his neck and dropped fainting into the tree.
Peter Newell, from "Mr. Munchausen; Being a True Account..." by John Kendrick Bangs, Boston: 1901 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/reached-giraffe/

Emir Sultan Mosque, Bursa. Thomas Allom, from ...

2025-03-26T22:54:11+01:00

Emir Sultan Mosque, Bursa.
Thomas Allom, from "Constantinople: and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor," London, Paris: [1839?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/emir-sultan-mosque/

Along the limpid highway fared. Charles Robinson, from "The ...

2025-03-26T07:18:43+01:00

Along the limpid highway fared.
Charles Robinson, from "The Cloud Kingdom," by Isaac Henry Wallis, London, New York: [1908?] #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/along-limpid-highway/

We came to a metal boat. John Augustus Knapp, from ...

2025-03-25T01:44:05+01:00

We came to a metal boat.
John Augustus Knapp, from "Etidorhpa, or, The End of Earth" by John Uri Lloyd, Cincinnati: [1896] #illustration #art #ScienceFiction https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/metal-boat/

SS La Champagne—deck layout. Victor Rose, from "Les ...

2025-03-24T06:38:49+01:00

SS La Champagne—deck layout.
Victor Rose, from "Les merveilles de la science," supplément 1 by Louis Figuier, Paris: [after 1887] #illustration #technology https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/champagne-longitudinal-section/

And as soon as I had mounted, he said: "Now, Geryon, bestir ...

2025-03-23T05:48:07+01:00

And as soon as I had mounted, he said: "Now, Geryon, bestir thyself."
Yan' Dargent, from "La Divine Comédie" by Dante Alighieri, Paris: 1870 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/geryon/

Decorated title for "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" by ...

2025-03-22T19:04:39+01:00

Decorated title for "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" by Walter Scott, Boston: 1887 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/illustrated-title/

If Orpheus first produced the waltz. Arthur Rackham, from ...

2025-03-20T22:24:06+01:00

If Orpheus first produced the waltz.
Arthur Rackham, from "The Ingoldsby legends" by Thomas Ingoldsby (Richard Harris Barham), London, New York: 1907 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/orpheus/

Glacier east-south-east of Bellsund, Spitsbergen. Barthélémy ...

2025-03-20T00:57:17+01:00

Glacier east-south-east of Bellsund, Spitsbergen.
Barthélémy Lauvergne, from "Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe," atlas, vol. 1 under the direction of Paul Gaimard, Paris: [1852] #illustration #art #Norway https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/glacier-bell-sound/

Act 1, scene 3. Maria. My name is Mary, sir. William Heath ...

2025-03-19T06:56:58+01:00

Act 1, scene 3.
Maria. My name is Mary, sir.
William Heath Robinson, from "Shakespeare's Comedy of Twelfth Night; or, What You Will" by William Shakespeare, New York: [1908?] #illustration #art #Shakespeare https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/name-mary/

She counted her money. There was exactly twenty-eight shillings ...

2025-03-18T01:13:37+01:00

She counted her money. There was exactly twenty-eight shillings and tenpence in her purse.
Amédée Forestier, from "Blind Love," vol. 3 by Wilkie Collins, London: 1890 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/counted-money/

They covered him with foul linen. Hugh Thomson, from "The ...

2025-03-16T19:35:42+01:00

They covered him with foul linen.
Hugh Thomson, from "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare, New York: 1910 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/foul-linen/

Halley's diving bell. P. Broux, from "Les merveilles de ...

2025-03-14T18:35:24+01:00

Halley's diving bell.
P. Broux, from "Les merveilles de la science," vol. 4 by Louis Figuier, Paris: 1870 #illustration #art #technology https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/halleys-diving-bell/

Address to the Deil. William Hole, from "The Poetry of Robert ...

2025-03-12T18:41:12+01:00

Address to the Deil.
William Hole, from "The Poetry of Robert Burns," vol. 1, Edinburgh: 1896 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/address-deil/

“Well!” she chuckled, “I am in luck!” Arthur Rackham, ...

2025-03-11T02:59:57+01:00

“Well!” she chuckled, “I am in luck!”
Arthur Rackham, from "English Fairy Tales" by Flora Annie Webster Steel, New York: 1922 #art #illustration #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/in-luck/

House of a Chinese merchant, near Canton. Thomas Allom, from ...

2025-03-10T20:03:41+01:00

House of a Chinese merchant, near Canton.
Thomas Allom, from "China: in a series of views, displaying the scenery...," vol. 1 by George Newenham Wright, London, Paris: [1843?] #illustration #art #China https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/house-chinese-merchant/

I like, at times, to hear The Ancient's word, And have care ...

2025-03-09T18:04:32+01:00

I like, at times, to hear The Ancient's word,
And have care to be most civil.
Eugène Delacroix, from "Faust" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Paris: 1828 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/hear-ancients-word/

Title page illustration from "The Alphabet of Flowers and ...

2025-03-08T22:54:47+01:00

Title page illustration from "The Alphabet of Flowers and Fruit," London: [1856?] #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/alphabet-flowers-title/

Schizodactylus monstrosus and other Orthoptera. Edward Donovan, ...

2025-03-07T21:50:26+01:00

Schizodactylus monstrosus and other Orthoptera.
Edward Donovan, from "An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of India" written & illustrated by Edward Donovan, London: 1800 #illustation #art #insects https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/schizodactylus-monstrosus/

Medieval initial P. From "Histoire de l'ornementation des ...

2025-03-06T03:21:47+01:00

Medieval initial P.
From "Histoire de l'ornementation des manuscrits" by Ferdinand Denis, Paris: 1857 #illustration #art #lettering https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/medieval-p-initial/

Medieval initial T. From "Histoire de l'ornementation des ...

2025-03-06T01:16:41+01:00

Medieval initial T.
From "Histoire de l'ornementation des manuscrits" by Ferdinand Denis, Paris: 1857 #illustration #art #lettering https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/medieval-initial-t/

Riehle testing machine. From "Nouveau dictionnaire ...

2025-03-04T16:16:10+01:00

Riehle testing machine.
From "Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré" under the direction of Jules Trousset, Paris: 1885-1891 #illustration #technology https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/riehle-testing-machine/

Gramme machine. From "Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique ...

2025-03-04T03:42:07+01:00

Gramme machine.
From "Nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique universel illustré" under the direction of Jules Trousset, Paris: 1885-1891 #illustration #technology https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/gramme-machine/

Tympanum at Tours Cathedral. From "Dictionnaire raisonné de ...

2025-03-02T14:48:04+01:00

Tympanum at Tours Cathedral.
From "Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle," vol. 9, written & illustrated by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Paris: 1875 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tours-cathedral/

The prodigal. Charles S. Ricketts, from "Poems Dramatic and ...

2025-02-28T02:09:02+01:00

The prodigal.
Charles S. Ricketts, from "Poems Dramatic and Lyrical" by John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley, London, New York: 1893 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/prodigal/

The Knave of Hearts, He stole those tarts. Randolph Caldecott, ...

2025-02-22T19:01:43+01:00

The Knave of Hearts,
He stole those tarts.
Randolph Caldecott, from "The Queen of Hearts," London, New York: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/knave-hearts/

Linnaeus's mouse opossum. Édouard Traviès, from ...

2025-02-17T21:31:40+01:00

Linnaeus's mouse opossum.
Édouard Traviès, from "Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle," atlas, vol. 1 by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny, Paris: 1849 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/marmosa-murina/

Purple heron. Édouard Traviès, from "Dictionnaire universel ...

2025-02-17T19:31:21+01:00

Purple heron.
Édouard Traviès, from "Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle," atlas, vol. 1 by Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny, Paris: 1849 #illustration #art #birds https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/purple-heron/

...As if impatient to be playing. Kate Greenaway, from "The ...

2025-02-15T04:02:46+01:00

...As if impatient to be playing.
Kate Greenaway, from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning, Glasgow, London, Manchester: n.d. #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/impatient-playing/

The sea-green bird sank so low that the foam of the waves dashed ...

2025-02-13T01:31:24+01:00

The sea-green bird sank so low that the foam of the waves dashed against its breast.
From "Dream Boats and Other Stories," written & illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker, Garden City, New York: 1920 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/sea-green-bird/

What was his amazement to find that the fountain was flowing over ...

2025-02-12T21:12:15+01:00

What was his amazement to find that the fountain was flowing over a maiden.
From "Dream Boats and Other Stories," written & illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker, Garden City, New York: 1920 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/fountain-flowing/

Fine 1830 lady. Paul Gavarni, from "Les français peints par ...

2025-02-12T03:14:53+01:00

Fine 1830 lady.
Paul Gavarni, from "Les français peints par eux-mêmes," vol. 1 collective work, Paris: 1840 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/lady-1830/

Chimney sweep. Paul Gavarni, from "Les français peints par ...

2025-02-12T01:16:11+01:00

Chimney sweep.
Paul Gavarni, from "Les français peints par eux-mêmes," vol. 1 collective work, Paris: 1840 https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/chimney-sweep/

St. George. William Thomas Horton, from "A Book of ...

2025-02-06T19:54:00+01:00

St. George.
William Thomas Horton, from "A Book of Images" by William Butler Yeats, London: 1898 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/st-george/

The path to the moon. William Thomas Horton, from "A Book of ...

2025-02-06T06:32:49+01:00

The path to the moon.
William Thomas Horton, from "A Book of Images" by William Butler Yeats, London: 1898 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/path-moon/

Baalbek, entrance of the Temple of Bacchus. David Roberts, from ...

2025-01-22T22:52:19+01:00

Baalbek, entrance of the Temple of Bacchus.
David Roberts, from "The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia," vol. 1 & 2 by William Brockedon & George Croly, London: 1855 #illustration #art https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/baalbek-doorway/

She tied my boat to the North Star so I would not grow up while ...

2023-10-07T12:43:44+02:00

She tied my boat to the North Star so I would not grow up while she was gone.
From "Dream Boats and Other Stories," written & illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker, Garden City, New York: 1920 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/tied-boat/

The ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the air. Henry ...

2023-10-01T03:06:07+02:00

The ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the air.
Henry Justice Ford, from "The Red Fairy Book" by Andrew Lang, London, New York: 1890 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/ship-went-away/