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Restoring the Lost Sense – October 31, 2015

"They never saw their child again." From Simple Hans and Other Funny Pictures and Stories, 1854.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #book illustration #creature of the night #illustration #children's book #batboy #human bat #winged child #bat child #empty nest

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 9, 2015

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From The Green Shadow, 1890.

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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #spooky #book illustration #spirit #green shadow #vintage book illustration #book #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 1, 2015

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"He crushed the nine remaining tarts into his mouth." From The Suicide Club and The Rajah's Diamond by Robert Louis Stevenson and illustrated by W. J. Hennessy, 1894.

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#vintage illustration #tarts #book illustration #robert louis stevenson #1890s #illustration

Strange Dreams – April 15, 2015

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The cave of sleep, from The Oracle of Baal by J. Provand Webster and illustrated by Warwick Goble, 1896.

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If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!

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#vintage illustration #book illustration #sleep #dinosaur #illustration #baal #prehistoric

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory – February 11, 2015

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From Captain Marryat's Novels, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #book illustration #explosion #illustration #thrown clear #school prank #science experiment #hijinks

Restoring the Lost Sense – February 1, 2015

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"He never looked behind him: he knew what was there—death in the shape of a man!" From Montezuma's Daughter by Henry Rider Haggard, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #death #h. rider haggard #grim reaper #book illustration #illustration #evading death

Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led – January 11, 2015

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"And make the puppy dance a jig, / When he began to quote Augustine." From Every-day Characters by Winthrop Mackworth Praed and illustrated by Cecil Charles Windsor, 1896.

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Who is your favorite imaginary saint? Do share!

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#vintage illustration #book illustration #puppy #illustration #augustine #dancing dog

Restoring the Lost Sense – January 4, 2015

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"Into the mouthpiece of the machine I spoke, asking, 'Do you hear me?'" From The Story Hunter or Tales of the Weird and Wild by Ernest Richard Suffling, 1896. [For Gordon Meyer.]

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#mummy #vintage illustration #necromancy #egyptian #book illustration #spiritualism #spirit communication #illustration #forbidden science #talking to the dead #forbidden arts

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 29, 2014

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"Out of the mouth of the pit ... sprang a vast column of water." From Heart of the World by Henry Rider Haggard, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #h. rider haggard #book illustration #haggard #fantastical #illustration #adventure story

Restoring the Lost Sense – December 21, 2014

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"I conducted her to the chamber, and bade her look intently on the polished mirror of the wall," from The Sphinx-like Head by J. Harry Sugden, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #mirror #book illustration #reflection #mirror world #mirror gazing #illustration #mirrored surface

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea – December 14, 2014

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"A tongue of pale blue flame shivered on the truck of the mast," from Ia by Q. [A. T. Quiller-Couch], 1896.

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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News

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#vintage illustration #book illustration #boat #illustration #quiller-couch #blue flame #blue fire

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 2, 2014

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"Other branches swooped down, coiling around him." From The Deviltree of El Dorado by Frank Aubrey, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #book illustration #illustration #devil tree #el dorado

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 1, 2014

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"The mended ghost": an illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903).

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#ghost #macabre #skeleton #book illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 31, 2014

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An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903). The caption reads: "But you must join us." [By the way, this image is by far our most popular posting at our Tumblr outpost.]

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#macabre #death #halloween #skeleton #grim reaper #book illustration #october #day of the dead

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 29, 2014

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"Where we do what cats may do," from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1858.

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#vintage illustration #king #book illustration #cat #thackeray #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 1, 2014

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"I will go and look," from A Handful of Silver by Elizabeth Thomasina Meade, 1897.

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#vintage illustration #book illustration #illumination #darkness #candle #night watch #illustration #vigilance #watchfulness #forbearance of sleep

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 31, 2014

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An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903). The caption reads: "They had evidently found the buffet."

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#vintage illustration #macabre #halloween #skeleton #dance of death #book illustration #ghosts #october #illustration #day of the dead #hungry ghost #halloween buffet #ghoulish

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 26, 2014

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An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903). The caption reads: "Did you say that to me?"

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Jonathan Caws-Elwitt notes, "'Did you say that to me?' makes me realize that even being dead doesn't prevent one's making the occasional faux pas!"

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#ghost #macabre #halloween #skeleton #book illustration #october

Precursors – May 8, 2014

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A precursor to the Death Star's approach to Alderaan? From The Deer Smellers of Haunted Mountain by John J. Meyer (1921). The caption reads: "Approaching the perfect world."

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#vintage illustration #angels #space travel #book illustration #star wars #spaceship #illustration #death star #new worlds #uninhabited planet #planetary colonists #space travelers #habitable planets

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 2, 2014

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An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903). The caption reads: "Don't rouse the sleeping lion."

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Jonathan Caws-Elwitt writes, "My tastes don't run to the macabre, but there's something about a jaunty skeleton carrying its own skull under its arm that always makes me smile. But wait, there's more! This particular j. s. with o. s. under its a. is giving advice—unsolicited and unwanted advice, from the looks of it—to another skeleton. Tip of the skull to Professor Oddfellow for (wait for it) unearthing this!"

Harold Lee replies, "I see your interpretation, but I'd like to think the inquiring skeleton is making the skeleton-equivalent request of, 'Lemme try on your hat.'"

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#ghost #macabre #skeleton #book illustration #vintage book illustration #headless #book #decapitated #advice #losing one's head #lost his head

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