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English:?Vermis Conscientiae: damned souls in hell tormented by the Worm of Conscience, from?Infernus, damnatorum carcer et rogus?(Hell, Prison and Grave of the Damned) by Jeremias Drexel
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Source | Infernus, damnatorum carcer et rogus?(https://archive.org/details/infernusdamnator00drex/page/108/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Category Archives: Mythology
Dutch Winged Dragon
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English:?Dutch woodcut of a winged dragon, 1590
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Source | Wonderlycke tydinghe van de Prophetie door eenen ghenaemt Paulus Secundus (https://archive.org/details/ned-kbn-all-00014465-001/page/n8/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
The background has been made transparent.
Daedalus Escapes the Labyrinth
The motto “iuvat evasisse” (“glad to have escaped”) comes from the Aeneid, book III: “iuvat evasisse tot urbes / Argolicas…”
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English:?Daedalus escaping from the labyrinth, with the motto?iuvat evasisse?(“happy to have escaped”)
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Source | Sammlung Geist- und Sinnreicher Gedancken uber Verschiedene aus der Natur, Kunst, und Wissenschafften vorgestellte Sinn-Bilder (https://archive.org/details/sammlunggeistund00oppe/page/n185/mode/2up) |
Author | Johann Christoph Sysang (1703-1757) |
Pegasus
Melisande by G. M. Stevens
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English:?“Melisande,” by Gustave Max Stevens, from the magazine?Le Masque
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Source | Le Masque?(https://archive.org/details/lemasque191019111brux/page/n267) |
Author | Gustave Max Stevens |
Arthur Withdraws the Sword from the Stone, by Helen Stratton
From Heroic Legends, 1908.
Venus, by Walter Crane
From Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden, 1906.
Rape of Proserpina, by Walter Crane
From Flowers from Shakespeare’s Garden, 1906.
The Hindu God Shiva
From The Cabinet of Curiosities, 1824.
The Water-Nymph, by Thomas Sully
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English: The Water-Nymph, engraved from a design by Thomas Sully
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Source | The Literary Souvenir for 1840 (https://archive.org/stream/literarysouvenir1840burt#page/n7/mode/2up) |
Author | Thomas Sully, painter; John B. Forrest, engraver |