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Fleurs photographiées by Adolphe Braun, 1853
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Edmond-François Aman-Jean |Venise, Queen of the See (1893)
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Alphabet Pornographique by Joseph Apoux, c. 1880
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” Bookplate — Mermaid With Comb and Mirror “ …. Engraving, No Date, Probably 19th Century
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No. 13 by Pierre Louÿs, 1898 (From a “bullet album”)
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Two Nude Bathers Under a Tree at the Water’s Edge (Deux baigneuses nues sous un arbre au bord de l’eau) (1895) by Aristide Maillol (French, 1861–1944)
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Marie de Régnier by Pierre Louÿs, 1898
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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the mélancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most enriching things about traveling.
– Gustave Flaubert, from a letter written to Louis Bouilhet, June 2, 1850
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary
Kate Greenaway, from Mother Goose, London, New York, 1881.
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By John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)
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Slavische Märchen (1878)
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I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me earlier that I could, in fact, conquer the ridiculously yellow pages of my sketchbook with things like this. I wish The Yellow Book was still around. I should publish my own.
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She’s cute. A Cupid fairy of some sort from the 1890s, when such things roamed the earth in hordes before they were cut down like the buffalo.
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Ballgown, Restoration (1814-1830).
Frontispiece from Yester-Year, written and illustrated by Albert Robida, London, 1892.
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Carnation.
Jean-Jacques Grandville, from Les fleurs animées (animate flowers), collective work, Paris, 1867.
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