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Tailpiece with grotesque gargoyle figure

This ornate end-of-chapter ornament, or tail-piece, includes a grotesque horned head with a hollow mouth, as for a drain-spout of a gargoyle. [$]

Letter A With Topless Woman

A barefoot woman leans back against the stem of a giant capital letter “A” and lifts away the cloth covering her breasts to expose herself. Fronds and decor in the background include a moon with a bearded face and pointy ears, [...] [more...] [$]

Le Chateau de la Grangefort-sir-Allier. Vue Generale.

Château de la Grange Fort, Grangefort. [more...] [$]

Border with mathematical instruments

This chapter head is made of two parts: to the left and top, an L-shaped steel ruler or square, perhaps, with a weight hanging by a string (a pumb-line probably; it may have been a roofing square); under the top part of the ruler, a collection of protractors, a telescope, dividers, [...] [more...] [$]

Drawing of the moon with a bearded face

This engraving of the moon with a man’s bearded face in it appeared as a small detail on a decorated initial letter attributed to the French painter François Emile Ehrmann (1833 – 1910). [more...] [$]