oldbookillustrations:

The burial of Jim Shields.

Howard Pyle, from Old Chester tales, by Margaret Deland, New York, 1899.

(Source: archive.org)

athousandwinds:

 Winter Scene in Little Russia, oil on canvas, 1868, by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1817-1900, Russian of Armenian descent.

 Aivazovsky was known for his seascapes and his paintings are found around the world including in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Winter Scene in Little Russia is in the Romanticism genre style and is in a private collection. 

athousandwinds:

 John Palmer’s First Mail Coach, 1989, oil on canvas by Ben Maile, contemporary British artist born in 1922 and living in Ireland.

 This work was commissioned by The Post Office to illustrate the book, First Post. It is in the British Postal Museum and Archive in London, England. 

athousandwinds:

 Rowallan Castle, oil on canvas attributed to John S. MacNab born in 1853 in Scotland.

  MacNab was a painter and teacher who conducted workshops while living and working in New York. This painting is in The Dick Institute of the East Ayrshire Council group of galleries in Scotland.

Illustration by Michael Fitzgerald for Le Fanu’s story Carmilla in The Dark Blue (January 1872)

mudwerks:

(via Irving Ramsey Wiles - The Green Cushion [c.1895] | Gandalf’s Gallery)

oldbookillustrations:

Her lips are merely Cupid’s bow.

Harrison Fisher, from American beauties, Indianapolis, 1909.

(Source: archive.org)

Duck Shooting Susquehanna Flats 1856 by Hugh Newell

Seated Girl Reading by Hugh Newell

morgandria:

The Dark Hedges, County Antrim, Northern Ireland - Photo by Pawel Klarecki.

“Bran Stark” by Richey Beckett

oldbookillustrations:

Ten o’clock in the evening.

Achille Devéria, from Le romantisme et la mode (Romanticism and fashion), by Louis Maigron, Paris, 1911.

(Source: archive.org)