E. W. Mitchell, frontispiece from Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales, selected, edited and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain, London, 1894.
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Frontispiece for Les Châtiments, by Victor Hugo (with an inscription by Hugo to Paul Meurice).
Honoré Daumier, from Daumier, peintre et lithographe (Daumier, painter and lithographer), by Raymond Escholier, Paris, 1923.
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Maya.
Amy Sawyer (1863-1945), frontispiece from Heart of the world, by Henry Rider Haggard, London, 1896.
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The descent of the column.
Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne), frontispiece from Crichton, by William Harrison Ainsworth, London, 1895.
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Frederick Cayley Robinson, frontispiece from The blue bird, by Maurice Maeterlinck, New York, 1920.
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What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!
Frederick Simpson Coburn, frontispiece from The legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, New York, 1899.
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The whirling snow mocked our efforts.
W. H. Overend, frontispiece from Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator, by Edward Whymper, New York, 1892.
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Gustave Doré, frontispiece from Œuvres de François Rabelais (Works of François Rabelais), Paris, 1854.
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A close up on Bosch’s Hell in Garden of Earthly Delights.
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Vanessa Foley. Blue Bird. Acrylic on canvas.
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