paintings and illustrations of shakespeare's ophelia ... this is not a thesis

start with the famous one ... by MILLAIS ...

i was about to start an ophelia scrapbook for my facebook floral posting ... but ECLECTIC LIGHT had already done almost all the work ...

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/08/03/is-there-a-willow-paintings-of-ophelia-to-1889/

https://eclecticlight.co/2019/08/04/is-there-a-willow-paintings-of-ophelia-from-1890/

... to be continued ...

the mind-bogglin' MIRA CALLIGRAPHIE MONUMENTA ...featuring the calligraphy of GEORG BOCSKAY and the unsurpassed painted illuminations by JORIS HOEFNAGEL ... is online via the Getty Library who own the book ... HOWEVER ... you can see much larger images if you go to JACOB FILIPP's website ... now you can marvel at the texture of the inks and paints, and even the fine surfaces they were painted on ...

link to the excellent getty pages ...

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?q=Joris+Hoefnagel&from=48

link to the rarther fabulous Jacob Filipp pages ...

https://jacobfilipp.com/mira/

the NANTGARW CHINA WORKS, besides the old GLAMORGANSHIRE CANAL, between TAFF'S WELL and UPPER BOAT

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?id_organisation=A11411&page=1&page_size=15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantgarw_China_Works

etc, etc ....

WALT KUHN ... a scrapbook of reasonably clear images trawled from the web

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Kuhn

 

...etc, etc ...

INDEPENDENCE DAY ... a good day to re-print MARINA WARNER's long essay about the STATUE OF LIBERTY ...

 

etc, etc ...