Insane Children’s Book Art Ruins Bedtime

What you’re looking at here are Heiri Strub’s illustrations from the 1956 Swiss edition of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox, a fairly deranged 1835 children’s yarn about a trio of magic dogs with eyes the sizes of teacups, mill-wheels, and windmills, respectively.

 

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Amazing Astronomy: Victorian-Era Illustrations of the Heavens

A chromolithograph of the planet Jupiter, observed Nov. 1, 1880, at 9:30 p.m. The piece of art reveals Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, akin to a hurricane on Earth, which has been raging on the planet for hundreds of years.

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