a murder of puns
Three demons Whose Legs Are Foreparts of Merged Lions Whose Tails End In Serpent Heads
Cylinder seal and impression
Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic II period
(ca. 2750–2600 B.C.)The Morgan Library
Today In Latin American History
Renowned Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, author of Pedro Páramo (1955) and El llano en llamas (1953), was born in Jalisco on May 16, 1917.
Billie Holiday & summer sun… & Hula-Hare Harris.
Cat audition for Sabrina the Teenage Witch for the role of Salem
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(via jordycatherine)
Illustrated title page by Aubrey Beardsley, from Wilde’s Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
(London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894).
The Morgan Library
William Blake (1757–1827)
America, a Prophecy
Copy A
Lambeth, 1793 (i.e., 1795)The Morgan Library
Lust
Robinet Testard
Book of Hours, France, Poitiers, ca. 1475The Morgan Library
Battista Agnese (ca. 1500–1564)
Portolan Atlas, on vellum, 1536–64
Opening: Map of the World with Magellan’s Route
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912The Morgan Library
Did I ever mention that I have a thing for maps?
