The Ingoldsby legends

They’d such very odd heads and such very odd tails.
Arthur Rackham, from The Ingoldsby legends, by Thomas Ingoldsby 
Richard H. Barham, London, New York, 1907.

Fuente: http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/

Cartone della Scuolla di Atene

Giacomo Borgi (1822 - 1881) Fotografia

Cartone della Scuolla di Atene, Raffaello

Milano Ambrosiana

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Drawings_by_Raffaello_Sanzio

La ronde du Sabbat

La ronde du Sabbat (The ring of Sabbath)

Louis Boulanger, from Cent dessins : extraits des oeuvres de Victor Hugo (One hundred drawings from the works of Victor Hugo), Paris, not dated (circa 1900?).

Fuente:  http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/post/2317982484/boulanger-ronde-sabbat

Drosera capensis

The leaf of a sundew (Drosera capensis) “bending” in response to the trapping of an insect.

(photo: Noah Elhardt)

Fuente:  http://rhamphotheca.tumblr.com/archive

Stars

M. C. Escher
Stars
Wood Engraving,  1948

Fuente:  http://www.tigtail.org/

The Nightmare

Thomas Burke, after Henry Fuseli
The Nightmare, published by John Raphael Smith, 30 January 1783
Stipple engraving
The Trustees of The British Museum


Fuente: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/gothicnightmares/rooms/room1_works.htm#nightmareburke

The Fall of Babylon

Jean Duvet (France, Dijon (?), 1485 - 1561) 
The Fall of Babylon, circa 1555 Print, Engraving

Fuente: http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2008_03_09_archive.html

The Dying Lucretia

The Dying Lucretia
Damián Campeny y Estany
1834
Marble
Palau de la Llotja, Barcelona

Fuente: http://www.wga.hu/art/c/campeny/lucretia.jpg

The Deluge

Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
"The Deluge", Frontispiece to Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible.
1866

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:POTD_protected/2009-08-16

Monument to Death

After Andrea Andreani (1540 - 1623) 

Emblematical Monument to Death


Pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized) on buff paper

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/ash/objects/drawings/WA1863.795.php

Neptune

Formerly attributed to Giorgio Ghisi (1520 - 1582)
After Perino del Vaga (1501 - 1547), designer

Neptune seated blowing a horn, with two Tritons

engraving, 1541 - 1582

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/ash/objects/

Caecilian embryo

Caecilian embryo
 Group of amphibians,  the Order GYMNOPHIONA (caecilians)

Fuente: http://silverfishattack.blogspot.com/2008/12/caecilians.html

Ornamenti del passato tempio

Labacco, Antonio
Libro appartenente all'architettura, nel quale si figurano alcune notabili antiquita de Roma. [1567]

Fuente: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/ausgaben/thumbnailseite.html

St Michael triumphing over the dragon

St Michael triumphing over the dragon
After Maerten de Vos
Published by Joan Baptista Vrints
Engraving  1585

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (deatail)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Fall of the Rebel Angels 
detail (1562, Oil on panel)

Fuente: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/

L'Ingratitude

L'Ingratitude
Mercier, Emile, 1855-1910 -- Binder 
Roger, Barthélemy Joseph Fulcran, 1767-1841 -- Engraver 
Godefroy, Jean, 1771-1839 -- Engraver 
Prud’hon, Pierre-Paul, 1758-1823 -- Artist

Fuente: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital

King Oedipus and Antigone

King Oedipus and Antigone. 1835
Statue by Rudolph Tegner  (1873-1950)
Rudolph Tegners Museum, Denmark.

Fuente: http://www.maicar.com/GML/Oedipus.html

Hercules

Christoffel Jeger (1596-1652/53)

After Pieter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Hercules   woodcut, 1630s Bucharest

National Museum of Art of Romania

Fuente: http://io.ua/13687101

Mallophorina

Mallophorina   
 Robber flies are visual predators, and their enormous eyes help them to capture prey in the air.  
 Arizona.


Image and text © Alex Wild 2011

Fuente:  http://www.alexanderwild.com/insects