Museo entomologico - Ferdinando Sordelli - 1885 - via Internet Archive
The candlelit dining room is glimpsed from the central courtyard.
The Los Angeles House, 1995
Nouveaux documents décoratifs en couleurs - Jules Auguste Habert-Dys - before 1930 - via Internet Archive
Art Nouveau “Fairy” lamp by Moritz Hacker in silver & plated, circa 1905.
Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection
Pleasant Birthday Thoughts Postmarked July 1916
long-eared bat
Psalter, England c. 1360-1400
Bodleian Library, Exeter College MS 47, fol. 21v
Staff Pick of the Week, Part Two!
Here we continue our look at the 1938 two-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s one-act play, Salome, published by the Limited Editions Club in an edition of 1,500. Catch up on Part One here.
The English-language volume was printed at The Fanfare Press in London under the direction of Ernest Ingram. Illustrations for the English volume are by Aubrey Beardsley, reproduced from the First English Edition (London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894). Aubrey had produced sixteen drawings to accompany Wilde’s play, but John Lane had omitted four of them from the original publication and had expurgated two more. It was learning about these additional Beardsley illustrations, as well as Wilde’s lukewarm feelings for the English translation, that sparked the idea to produce two volumes for the work. The Limited Editions Club was able to obtain clear reproductions of Beardsley’s original drawings and included all sixteen (unedited!) in their edition.
cartespostalesantiques
Jewish cotton carders in Jerusalem
Vintage postcard, early 1900′s
Black and white illustrations taken from ‘Motifs Decoratifs’ by Jules Habert-Dys.
Published 1900 by Librairie de l'art, Paris.
Getty Research Institute.
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Source: archive.org
Scale model for a proposed monumental cemetery gate, Mantua
Art Nouveau Colored Glass | International Art Glass Catalogue
Wallpaper, ceiling corner block (United States, circa 1880).
Paper, polychrome printing.
Image and text information courtesy Brooklyn Museum.
Source: brooklynmuseum.org
Fashion Plate, from Les Robes de Paul Poiret, Paul Poiret, 1908, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings