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Weyher and Richemond steam engine.
Louis Poyet, from L’Exposition universelle de 1889 (The 1889 Paris world fair) vol. 3, by Émile Monod, Paris, 1890.
(Source: archive.org)
Punching machine & metal cutter.
From L’Exposition universelle de 1889 (The 1889 Paris world fair), by Émile Monod, Paris, 1890.
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At the show, where I stay - in spite of myself - under the crossfire of gazes, lorgnettes, and of those double-mortars called opera glasses…
Jean-Jacques Grandville, from Petites misères de la vie humaine (Little troubles of human life), by Old Nick (Paul-Émile Daurand-Forgues), Paris, 1870.
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She put the blindfold over my eyes, and tied it tightly behind my head.
Eugène Lampsonius (Eustache Lorsay), from Œuvres illustrées de Balzac (Illustrated works of Balzac) vol. 3-4, Paris, 1857.
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Blue crab, anyone?
Also available as a greeting card, or a postcard. (I’ll make Christmas cards in June.)
Original wood engraving from Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, Paris, 1886 - 1891.
The fair archeress.
George du Maurier, from Pegasus re-saddled, by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Philadelphia, 1878.
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The charlatans
Honoré Daumier, from Némésis médicale illustrée (illustrated medical nemesis) vol. 2, by François Fabre, Paris, 1840.
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Steam engine (with two cylinders)
From La vapeur (steam), by A. Guillemin, Paris, 1876.
(Source: Old Book Illustrations)
I looked beside me, and instead of a charming figure, what did I see?
Édouard de Beaumont, from Le Diable amoureux (The Devil in Love), by Jacques Cazotte, Paris, 1871.
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…A poetical way to carry out the most striking phenomenons encountered in nightmares.
Édouard de Beaumont, from Le Diable amoureux (The Devil in Love), by Jacques Cazotte, Paris, 1871.
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