The Magic Lantern

Amid the Waves (1898) by I. K. Aivazovsky (1817-1900)

seascape by Primitivo Alvarez Armesto (1864-1939)

unrealityart:timespent:aleyma:

Odilon Redon, La Voile Jaune, c.1905 (via).

aperfectcommotion:

Adolf Fassbender, Cape Breton Beacon

stopvoleuse:aubade:

Arnold Böcklin, “Die Kapelle,” c. 1898.

eritissimilesdeo:sealmaiden:

La Mer - Post card, 1905

Author unknown

thanks to theshipthaflew, who added: ’not sure what your source for this photo was, but in case you didn’t have any other info on it and were curious, it’s Isadora Duncan: digitalgallery.nypl.org… :)’

mrkiki:

STANTON MACDONALD-WRIGHT
from Haiku Series
woodcut in colors, 1966-7.
all S. 20½ x 17¾ in. (521 x 451 mm.)

‘Longing’ by James Archer [Scottish Painter, 1823-1904]

crashinglybeautiful:

Gustave Doré, “Without Wave or Wind” (from amare-habeo)

sealmaiden:

Plate 26: Without Wave or Wind

From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published by Dover

Illustration by Gustave Doré

museoftragedy:miss-mary-quite-contrary:strangersinastrangeland:

moncabinetdecuriosites:

“Lost in Danube” from Undine illustrated by Arthur Rackham

via http://rackham.artpassions.net/

turnofthecentury:

Paul Gauguin ~ Dans les vagues, ou Ondine, 1889