1869 illustration from Champfleury’s Les chats: histoire, moeurs, observations, anecdotes. dn790006.ca.archive.org/0/items/lesc...

I found this on publicdomainreview.org/essay/gottfr... @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

old pro golf, pirate course. tombstones hole, ocean city, maryland, 1985

Nicolas de Largillière, Study of Hands, 1715, 65 cm x 83.5 cm (Musée du Louvre)

The Birthday Cake, circa 1914. Photograph by Harry Whittier Frees. www.loc.gov/item/2013648...

weird cat illustration from 1901. artist: John White Alexander. www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...

bench and seats, harold warp pioneer village, minden, nebraska, 1996

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall.

They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+.

Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them.

I think about it a lot in moments like this.

This would make a great coloring book page.
St. John the Baptist in the Desert
15th century German engraving
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I'm really into this cow topiary with a smiley face from the Iowa State Fair in 2016. www.loc.gov/item/2016630...

You probably didn't know Mapplethorpe was so good at photographing dogs, but he was: here's his portrait of Pony, from 1988

I recently came across these 19th century illustrations for The Raven. Illustrator: Gustave Doré. www.loc.gov/resource/rbc...