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Mythical Illustrations

A collection of vibrant, historical illustrations depicting mythical scenes, characters, and narratives in a stylized, whimsical manner.

Witch flying on branch/broomstick, 1489.
Witch flying on branch/broomstick, 1489.
126 assets in this story
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Here I sit with my great lazy moon, and not a single guy around to spoon , Moon, Benches, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Tarot card 1 -- Le Bateleur (The Magician, Magus or Juggler). Date: 20th century
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Wotan (Odin) god of wisdom, poetry and war. At top left hiss daughter Brunhilder, foremost of the Valkyries carries a wounded warrior to Valhalla. Illustration for the opera 'Die Walkure' by Richard Wagner from a Liebig trade card c1900. Chromolithograph.
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Benaiah, Who Slew The Lion James Tissot (1836-1902 French) Jewish Museum, New York
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Illustration by Arthur Rakham of Rip Van Winkle, a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution
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World War I American war bonds poster by Ellworth Young, 1918
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Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, Had a Wife and Couldn't Keep her - Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme
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CELDAS INDIVIDUALES CONVENTO LAS MAGDALENA. Author: Arturo Reque Meruvia (1906-1969). Location: ARCHIVO HISTORICO MILITAR, MADRID, SPAIN.
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The Shire Horse, 1904. William Nicholson (British, 1872-1949). Woodcut with hand coloring; sheet: 20.2 x 21.5 cm (7 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.); image: 20.2 x 21.5 cm (7 15/16 x 8 7/16 in.).
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Photos Series Deerslayer, Cooper, Deerslayer says I did not want to have your life, redskin / Bilderserie Lederstrumpf, Cooper, Wildtöter sagt Ich wollte dein Leben nicht haben, Rothaut, Liebigbild, digital improved reproduction of a collectible image from the Liebig company, estimated from 1900, pd / digital verbesserte Reproduktion eines Sammelbildes von ca 1900, gemeinfrei.
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Saint Michael. Dated: c. 1450/1470. Medium: woodcut, hand-colored in red, green, blue, brown, gold, and yellow. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.
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MARRUECOS. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.
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España. Programa del Teatro Goya, de Barcelona, para la temporada 1925-1926.
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CARTOON A French perspective of the war - comment on the silence surrounding the concentration camps in the Transvaal. Date: 1901
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Mitología. Las Sirenas, deidades marinas descritas como mujeres hermosas con cola de pez que hechizaban a los marineros con sus cantos; también se representas como híbridos de mujer y ave. Años 1920. Author: Apel·les Mestres Oñós.
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Sistema de señales telegráficas de la marina de guerra. Lenguaje internacional de banderas y código Morse. Letra K. Dibujo de Apel·les Mestres. Años 1930. Author: APEL·LES MESTRES I OÑÓS.
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Anamorphic pictures and reflective cone viewer from the Nekes collection, Magic picture book, Print, 1800-1899, Printed in Germany. Undated.
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bathing open air bath at Wannsee Berlin caricature on the painting ""In the Realm of the Blessed"" (""Im Gefilde der Seligen"") von Arnold Boecklin drawing by Wilhelm Adolph Wellner 1907,
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The Flower Book - Saturn's Loathing. From The Flower Book, 1905. Sir Edward Burne-Jones .
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Wizard, dragon and knights
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Joan of Arc executed by the English, 30 May 1431 (20th century). Claiming divine inspiration, Joan of Arc persuaded Charles VII to declare himself King of France which was ruled by England under the terms of the Treaty of Troyes signed in 1420). Joan was captured by the English and executed and martyred in 1431, but Charles went on to regain all of France from the English, with the exception of Calais. From an anti-British brochure titled Who has been the enemy of France through History The artist is unknown.
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Polevik by Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876-1942)/ Private Collection/ 1934/ Russia/ Lithograph/ Book design/ Mythology, Allegory and Literature
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CUENTO DE LOS TRES CERDITOS.
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'LE MAITRE DU MONDE' (The Master of the World) Date: 1904
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Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by the English novelist Daniel Defoe and published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, it tells the tale of an English castaway named Robinson Crusoe (seen here) who spent 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela before he was rescued. Newell Convers Wyeth, known as N. C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators.
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National Lottery, Tranche of Charity, Draw: 18 December 22nd tranche 1941 for the benefit of national aid Anonymous. "National lottery, tranche of charity, draw: 18 December 22nd tranche 1941 for the benefit of National Secours". Color lithography. EN1941-1941.