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The Cats and the Berries: Artist Feature: Charles Dana Gibson Victorian Woman Art, Sketching People, Charles Dana Gibson, Dana Gibson, Victorian Illustration, Arte Grunge, Arte 8 Bits, Stamp Ideas, Drawing Faces

Charles Dana Gibson was an illustrator whose work was prominent from the 1880s to the end of WWI. I love his images for their humor, wry wit, and aesthetic loveliness (I do love the Gibson Girl look!), and I hope you enjoy them too! Both funny and a bit morbid, if you ask me. He would repeat this idea of female power (abuse of power, he seemed to think) in other images. Again with the cruel ladies thing! This one was humorously titled "The Weaker Sex". This one reminds me of Lady Mary…

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Henry Fuseli The Nightmare. 1781. Romanticism. Oil on Canvas. Detroit Institute of Art. Old Hag Syndrome, Musée D'orsay Paris, Henry Fuseli, Scary Paintings, Michael Sowa, Artemisia Gentileschi, Old Hag, Istoria Artei, Painting Of A Woman

[From October 2010] or “i dremt it in the hidden pantry with the freudo-oneirical screwdriver” … being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community, and crossposted[…]

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Awesomely Gross Medical Illustrations From the 19th Century | A 23-year-old Viennese woman, depicted before and after contracting cholera in the first European epidemic in 1831. According to the original caption, the second image shows her only an hour after contracting the disease, and she died four hours later.  D.A.P.  | WIRED.com Wellcome Collection, Strange History, Vintage Medical, Medical Illustration, Medical History, Surgery, Aesthetic Pictures, Disease, Art Photography

In the 19th century, doctors couldn’t use photographs to teach their students about disease. So the physicians, surgeons, and anatomists of the 1800s built close relationships with artists, craftsmen, and publishers to produce beautiful (yet horrifically off-putting at times) illustrations.

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