Dreamers Rise

This image of the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte on the remote Atlantic island of St. Helena was presumably taken sometime during the period fro...

He stands by the window and watches the woman leave. As she reaches the bottom of the landing she lifts her hand from the cast-iron railing,...

These beautiful but somewhat unsettling images are from a set of postcards issued in commemoration of Japanese naval victories in the Russo-...

Homage to Koizumi Yakumo Many years ago, and very many miles from here, there lived a young woman, the daughter of a powerful daimyo. When ...

An illustration by Maurice Sendak, specially commissioned in 1971 by the Brentanos bookstore chain (now long since defunct) for an invitatio...

Though the Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada is best known for his topical broadsides and ghoulishly whimsical depictions of skeletons...

These images by the printmaker Kawase Hasui (1883 – 1957) are from the extensive online galleries of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. ...

She is, he thinks, as beautiful a girl as he has ever seen. She is studying the cello and he -- without great conviction -- environmental sc...

In a burst of blue flame the burner catches. She sets the kettle on the stove, yawns, and takes a glass from the drainer, fills it and slowl...

After closer inspection of the cache of loose calendar pages I referred to in my earlier post on this topic, I've decided that the kata...

I don't really know what to make of this rather odd book, which was published in 1855 or thereabouts and which is, like its creator Henr...