Miss Mary's Victorian and Vintage Image Archive » engraving http://missmary.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:53:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Edgar Allan Poe Clip Art Portrait http://missmary.com/2012/02/02/edgar-allan-poe-clip-art-portrait/ http://missmary.com/2012/02/02/edgar-allan-poe-clip-art-portrait/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:31:17 +0000 Miss Mary http://missmary.com/?p=801 Vintage engraving of Edgar Allan Poe from a 19th century cyclopedia.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Portrait Clip Art

In reading the Wikipedia entry on Poe, I learned of this assessment by Aldous Huxley:

Aldous Huxley wrote that Poe’s writing “falls into vulgarity” by being “too poetical”—the equivalent of wearing a diamond ring on every finger.[112]

To this I say: hey Huxley, just drop another tab and chill.

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Cherubs Vintage Decorative Typographical Element

Cherubs Clip Art Vintage Decorative Typographical Element

A trio of wistfully sad cherubs that would be at home on a Valentine or funeral card. They seem to long for better days.

 

 

]]> http://missmary.com/2012/02/02/sad-and-sweet-gothic-cherubs-clip-art-decorative-element/feed/ 0 The Mona Lisa http://missmary.com/2012/01/27/the-mona-lisa/ http://missmary.com/2012/01/27/the-mona-lisa/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:04:20 +0000 Miss Mary http://missmary.com/?p=730 The famous mug shot/portrait of Mona Lisa, a.k.a “La Gioconda” or “La Joconde, ” or “Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo”, by Leonardo da Vinci. Well, not the oil painting, this is a 19th century engraving of the masterpiece as clip art.

The Mona Lisa Clip Art

The Mona Lisa

Go ahead, download the clip art Mona Lisa and have fun, avant-garde style.  In the classroom, everyone is a Duchamp. Just pull out the markers and have a go.

]]> http://missmary.com/2012/01/27/the-mona-lisa/feed/ 0 Antique Count of Monte Cristo Illustrations http://missmary.com/2009/08/23/antique-count-of-monte-cristo-illustrations/ http://missmary.com/2009/08/23/antique-count-of-monte-cristo-illustrations/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:31:32 +0000 Miss Mary http://missmary.com/?p=126 A pair of illustrations from my Victorian era edition of The Count of Monte Cristo.

monte-c-abbe

monte-c-grave

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