‘Lohengrin’ by Robert Engels for ‘Jugend’ magazine nr. 28, 1902. Description: Lohengrin is a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. Source

‘Lohengrin’ by Robert Engels for ‘Jugend’ magazine nr. 28, 1902.

Description: Lohengrin is a character in German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulled by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity.

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‘The children’s book’ edited by Frances Hodgson Burnett; illustrated by Florence E. Nosworthy, Harrison Cady, Harold Sichel… and many others. Published 1915 by Cupples & Leon Company, New York.

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George Elgar Hicks On the seashore, 1879 | Flickr

George Elgar Hicks On the seashore, 1879 | Flickr

‘Onoranze a Volta’, poster design by Adolfo Hohenstein, 1898. Description: Two young women with symbols of manual labor (a shuttle and a washboard) place a wreath around the cameo of Alessandro Volta to indicate their gratefulness for the electricity that liberated them from menial tasks. The poster is for an exhibition of electrical products being held in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Volta, the inventor of an instrument for measuring electricity (voltmeter), and the man who defined a single unit of it, a volt. Source

‘Onoranze a Volta’, poster design by Adolfo Hohenstein, 1898.

Description: Two young women with symbols of manual labor (a shuttle and a washboard) place a wreath around the cameo of Alessandro Volta to indicate their gratefulness for the electricity that liberated them from menial tasks. The poster is for an exhibition of electrical products being held in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Volta, the inventor of an instrument for measuring electricity (voltmeter), and the man who defined a single unit of it, a volt.

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Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Art by Jennie Harbour (1936) from the book HANS ANDERSEN’S STORIES.

Art by Jennie Harbour (1936) from the book HANS ANDERSEN’S STORIES.

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Poster advertising the ‘Berliner Tageblatt’ by Ephraim Moses Lilien,1899. Source

Poster advertising the ‘Berliner Tageblatt’ by Ephraim Moses Lilien,1899.

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The sword of Welleran, and other stories’ by Lord Dunsany; with illustrations by S.H. Sime. Published 1908 by George Allen & Sons, London

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Lay Thy Sweet Hand in Mine and Trust in MeEdmund Blair Leighton, 1891

Lay Thy Sweet Hand in Mine and Trust in Me
Edmund Blair Leighton, 1891

Arthur Rackham, The Valkyrie

Arthur Rackham, The Valkyrie

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