oldchildrensbooks:

THE RABBIT’S CHRISTMAS PARTY (.c. 1892)

1- The Arrival
Fine ink and watercolor drawing heightened with gouache.
15.1 x 14.9 cm. (5.9 x 5.51 in).

2- Dancing to a piper
Unfinished ink and watercolor drawing.
Unsigned.
15.3 x 15 cm. (5.9 x 5.9 in.)
This scene was later redrawn with a rabbit playing a ‘cello surrounded by five dancing rabbits ( and two rabbits nuzzling each other by the black wall.)

3- The Departure
Fine ink and watercolor drawing.
15.2 x 15.2 cm. (5.9 x 5.9 in.)

Source : Sothebys.

Beatrix Potter

raymonster:

elyncia:

hey, for science, could you guys reblog this and put in the tags

  • where you live
  • the language you speak most often
  • what you call a tiny, overpriced grocery store on a street corner where you go when you just need a carton of milk or a candy bar or something

illustrationexhilaration:

Day 145: Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May
25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator,
book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but
later turned to the study of art the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I,
Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe
children’s book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among
other ventures. He designed banknotes during World War II and postage stamps, most notably those that heralded the beginning of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.

everybodyilovedies:

saladtsar:

@hpqueernet | introduction event – @saladtsar, aro ace regulus

please excuse the poor image quality, i do not have a scanner on me this semester, my phone is the only tool i have.

this comic has sort of spawned from all sorts of conversations i’ve had with people and … have overheard from people. just  a few days ago, i overheard a group of chinese students discussing marriage and childrearing. ‘it’s just performing your duty to your parents, isn’t it?’ one of the girls remarked.

i felt like that statement was so resonant with a lot of pureblood customs in the hp universe. for all that’s been said about the lgbtq+ community in the wizarding community, i do not buy that they are ‘more accepting’ of lgbtq+ folk. given pureblood attitudes towards procreation and continuing the bloodline, i think there would be a lot of hate directed towards anything that didn’t lead towards the production of heirs.

so i think that in exploring lgbtq+ identity in the wizarding world, it’s important to keep in mind that not everything is rosy and wonderful, and that there are very real fears and feelings of negativity present that need to be addressed within the context of wizarding culture.

This is fucking amazing??? I literally just said that aloud while reading this on the treadmill. This comic is fucking amazing. The Victorian aesthetic, the use of words and space on the page, the controlled directionality of reader eye movement. Like. This is a fucking amazing comic, without even getting into the content, which is also fucking amazing.

This is fucking amazing.