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Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre, abandoned mosque raider & jihad negotiator.

Monuments of Persian architecture: historical study and recording of Muslim brick buildings in Asia Minor and Persia by Friedrich Paul Theodor...

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The fruits of Enrico Bianchetti’s Necropolis. 1890.

Sometime in September of 1890, in a small Italian village called Ornavasso in the Piedmont region of Italy, a man called Enrico Bianchetti...

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Marshall Howard Saville & his turquois mask compilation.

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel. Biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and the artist who gave us 1904’s “Art forms of Nature”.

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Désiré Guilmard & Le garde-meuble

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Der Wahre Jacob. The satirical magazine that defied Hitler. Part 2.

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“J.J.” Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville & “Un Autre Monde”.

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William Saville-Kent.

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The Bipolar family saga of the French poet and undisputed lord of darkness, Maurice Rollinat.

The life of the French poet Maurice Rollinat (1846-1903) was destined for darkness. He sprang from a deep well of...

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Der Wahre Jacob. The satirical magazine that defied Hitler. Part 1.

Satirical journal Der Wahre Jacob was founded in 1879 in Hamburg with the aim of fighting the monarchy and mammonism. It...

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Mr Bullock’s London Museum & Pantherion of 1812 .

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The Snakes that Hattie & Helena Scott drew in 1869.

Harriet (1830-1907) and Helena (1832-1910), artists and naturalists, were born in Sydney, Helena on 11 April 1832. Educated by their...

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Helene Schjerfbeck began as a precociously skilled, slightly melancholic late-19th-century academic realist. She finished as a painter whose sublime abstract images are an exquisite harmony of pure paint and cryptic description.

“I have to draw to the point of madness, just draw. Just work, work and think of nothing else”, said the brilliant Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It did him no good, he was just another “degenerate” artist to the Nazis.

From hat shop girl to Dutch art icon. But who was the Girl in the Kimono? The opaque story of an 1890s working class teenager immortalised by George Hendrik Breitner.

Descendant of samurai and relentless entrepreneur, Ogawa Kazumasa opened Tokyo’s first photo studio, shot Japan’s art treasures, the 100 prettiest geisha in Tokyo and taught photography to the military. His legacy is these exquisite images of flowers.

L’Estampe Moderne; the 1890s Parisian Art Nouveau “best of” album feat. various international artists. 4 lithographs every month. Just 3₣r 50c an issue.

It’s easy to see how, in the mid 1800s, Paul Gustave Doré “hypnotized the widest public ever captured by a major illustrator”. Even Van Gogh was a fan, he copied Doré shortly before shooting himself.

In the 1890s the Dutch painter, George Hendrik Breitner took nude reference photos for his paintings. In the 1990s they were found.

Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach. 1880s free love messiah, naturist, pacifist, vegetarian, sun worshipper and unique symbolist painter.

Found photos : Three lost decades of Iowa Speedway recovered. With Merlin Benning, Lester “Red” Dralle. Claus Stricker, Don & Dick Feckers & Red Droste. 1950>1970.

The Art of Protest: Albert Hahn was righteous anger manifest. A graphic character assassin that even the mighty Germany Kaiser feared.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

The 1920s French Art Deco influencer who drew pure design inspiration from the natural world. Insectes (1929) by Émile-Allain Séguy.

The forgotten Finska Vyer birch bark album, by I.K Inha, 1892. Inside are raw natural landscape photographs of Finland. It won the 1st international photographic competion in Paris.

William Morris. Strawberry Thief . “You can picture my Father going out in the early morning and watching the rascally thrushes at work on the fruit beds…”

The Swiss artist, Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956). A Princess helped him give up the life of a farmer to put his faith and future in the hands of the flower fairies. He lived magically ever after.

Painter & early street photographer. The astonishing early street photography that helped George Hendrik Breitner add social realism to his famous paintings of Amsterdam.

India mid-1800s : Dr John Murray, cholera specialist an photographer. He spent 40 years travelling with gear weighing 400 pounds and a servant. His ever so slightly psychedelic negatives made it all worth it.

Samarkand, early 1900s. The first ever colour photographs of the ancient Persian city by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an unknown Russian who invented his own colour photography process.

It’s 1914. and Orientalism meets Art Nouveau and the early stirrings of Art Deco in Emile-Allain Séguy’s “Samarkande: 20 Compositions en couleurs dans le Style oriental”.

Around the world with the rare travel drawings by the American painter, Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900). Found in the archives of the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

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Friedrich Paul Theodor Sarre, abandoned mosque raider & jihad negotiator.

The fruits of Enrico Bianchetti’s Necropolis. 1890.

Marshall Howard Saville & his turquois mask compilation.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel. Biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and the artist who gave us 1904’s “Art forms of Nature”.

Désiré Guilmard & Le garde-meuble

Der Wahre Jacob. The satirical magazine that defied Hitler. Part 2.

“J.J.” Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville & “Un Autre Monde”.

William Saville-Kent.

The Bipolar family saga of the French poet and undisputed lord of darkness, Maurice Rollinat.

Der Wahre Jacob. The satirical magazine that defied Hitler. Part 1.

Mr Bullock’s London Museum & Pantherion of 1812 .

The Snakes that Hattie & Helena Scott drew in 1869.