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Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Greek mythology - Leda and the Swan

Greek mythology - Leda and the Swan
Vintage engraving of Leda and the Swan by Charles Sellier, 19th Century. Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces Leda

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - Uriel Returned

Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - Uriel Returned
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. So promised he; and Uriel to his charge, Returned Book IV, line 589, 590

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Towards the coast of Earth beneath

Miltons Paradise Lost - Towards the coast of Earth beneath
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Towards the coast of Earth beneath, Down from the ecliptic, sped with hoped success, Throws his steep flight in many an aery wheel

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: An angel and demon fighting, Good vs Evil

An angel and demon fighting, Good vs Evil
Vintage illustration of An angel and demon fighting, scene from Orlando Furioso illustrated by Gustave Dore

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer as a pilgrim on horseback

Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer as a pilgrim on horseback
Geoffrey Chaucer depicted as a pilgrim on horseback

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Hell at last, Yawning

Miltons Paradise Lost - Hell at last, Yawning
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Hell at last, Yawning, received them whole

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Demon fallen angel emerging from the darkness

Demon fallen angel emerging from the darkness
Vintage illustration of Demon fallen angel emerging from the darkness, scene from Orlando Furioso illustrated by Gustave Dore

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - Their summons called

Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - Their summons called
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Their summons called, From every band and squared regiment, By place or choice the worthiest. Book I, lines 757-759

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Fallen Angels

Fallen Angels
Fallen angels on the wing, a scene from MIltons Paradise lost. So numberless were those bad angels seen, Hovering on the wing, under the cope of Hell. Engraving from 1870

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Greek mythology, Europa a Phoenician princess

Greek mythology, Europa a Phoenician princess
Vintage engraving of Europa, the only daughter of king Aginor, the mother of King Minos of Crete, a woman of Greek demi-god origin, after whom the continent Europe was named

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Arthurian Legend, King Arthur, Hermit in the cave, Idylls of the King

Arthurian Legend, King Arthur, Hermit in the cave, Idylls of the King
Vintage illustration Arthurian Legend, The Cave Scene, At last they found - his foragers for charms - A little glassy headed hairless man.. by Gustave Dore

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Asclepius finding the Betony, a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology

Asclepius finding the Betony, a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology
Vintage illustration of Asclepius finding the Betony, a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology, 9th Century art

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Jack the Giant Killer, Jack blowing the horn at the gaints door, Dragons, Fairy tale

Jack the Giant Killer, Jack blowing the horn at the gaints door, Dragons, Fairy tale
Vintage colour illustration from the story Jack the Giant Killer, a Cornish fairy tale and legend about a young adult who slays a number of bad giants during King Arthur's reign

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Jack the Giant Killer, rescuing people from the evil giant, Fairy tale

Jack the Giant Killer, rescuing people from the evil giant, Fairy tale
Vintage colour illustration from the story Jack the Giant Killer, a Cornish fairy tale and legend about a young adult who slays a number of bad giants during King Arthur's reign

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: The fall of Phaethon, Early renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci

The fall of Phaethon, Early renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci
Vintage illustration, After the sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, fall of Phaethon, Early renaissance art. Phaethon, was the son of the Oceanid Clymene and the sun-god Helios in Greek mythology

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Peacock complaining to Juno

La Fontaines Fables - Peacock complaining to Juno
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Peacock complaining to Juno

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - The Drunkard and his Wife

La Fontaines Fables - The Drunkard and his Wife
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Drunkard and his Wife

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Dragon with many heads

La Fontaines Fables - Dragon with many heads
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Dragon with many heads, and the Dragon with many tails

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Death and the Woodcutter

La Fontaines Fables - Death and the Woodcutter
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Death and the Woodcutter

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Death and the Unhappy Man

La Fontaines Fables - Death and the Unhappy Man
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Death and the Unhappy Man

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Monkey and the Dolphin

La Fontaines Fables - Monkey and the Dolphin
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Monkey and the Dolphin

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Fortune and the Little Child

La Fontaines Fables - Fortune and the Little Child
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Fortune and the Little Child

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Satyr and the Passerby

La Fontaines Fables - Satyr and the Passerby
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Satyr and the Passerby

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Crowd and Sword Motif

Crowd and Sword Motif
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Crowd and Sword Motif

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - The man who runs after fortune

La Fontaines Fables - The man who runs after fortune
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The man who runs after fortune and the man who waits for her

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Sculptor and the Statue of Jupiter

La Fontaines Fables - Sculptor and the Statue of Jupiter
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Sculptor and the Statue of Jupiter

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Jupiter

La Fontaines Fables - Jupiter
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Jupiter or Jove, the king of the gods and the god of sky and thunder

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Mouse Metamorphosed into a Girl

La Fontaines Fables - Mouse Metamorphosed into a Girl
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Mouse Metamorphosed into a Girl

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Gods as Instructors of Jupiters Son

La Fontaines Fables - Gods as Instructors of Jupiters Son
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Gods as Instructors of Jupiters Son

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Discord

La Fontaines Fables - Discord
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Discord, the devil and cupid compeat at love and discord

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - The Wishes

La Fontaines Fables - The Wishes
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Wishes. A fairy graning a man wishes

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Ingratitude and injustice of men

La Fontaines Fables - Ingratitude and injustice of men
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Ingratitude and injustice of men towards fortune. A ship is blown away from the rocks by the winds of fortune

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Death and the Dying Man

La Fontaines Fables - Death and the Dying Man
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Death and the Dying Man

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Gorgons, and Hydras and Chimeras dire

Miltons Paradise Lost - Gorgons, and Hydras and Chimeras dire
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Gorgons, and Hydras and Chimeras dire. Book II, line 628

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Satan hath journey d

Miltons Paradise Lost - Satan hath journey d
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Now to the ascent of that steep savage hill. Satan hath journey d on, pensive and slow? Book IV, line 172, 173

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - what glorious shape

Miltons Paradise Lost - what glorious shape
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Eastward amoung those trees, what glorious shape, Comes this way moving ?

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Nine days they fell

Miltons Paradise Lost - Nine days they fell
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Nine days they fell

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - their great adventurer

Miltons Paradise Lost - their great adventurer
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. And now expecting, Each hour their great adventurer, from the search, Of foreign worlds

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Dreadful was the din

Miltons Paradise Lost - Dreadful was the din
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Dreadful was the din, Of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now, With complicated monsters, head and tail

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Forester

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Forester
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. The Forester

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, personage of a corpulence

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, personage of a corpulence
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. A personage of a corpulence worthy of Falstaff

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Cupid

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Cupid
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Cupid

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Creatures of the Moon

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Creatures of the Moon
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Creatures of the Moon

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Three legged monster

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Three legged monster
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Three legged monster

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dead Sea Monster

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dead Sea Monster
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Dead Sea Monster

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Horned Monster

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Horned Monster
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Horned Monster

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Swallowed by a whale

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Swallowed by a whale
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Swallowed by a whale

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Vulcan anger

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Vulcan anger
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. He held me suspened over a sort of well

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Set upon by monsters

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Set upon by monsters
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Set upon by monsters

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Greeting Vulcan and Venus

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Greeting Vulcan and Venus
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Greeting Vulcan and Venus

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Headless men fighting

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Headless men fighting
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Headless men fighting

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Vulcans home

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Vulcans home
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Vulcans home

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Baron and Venus

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Baron and Venus
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Baron and Venus

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Gigantic birds egg hatching

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Gigantic birds egg hatching
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Gigantic birds egg hatching

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, fighting Vulcans forge

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, fighting Vulcans forge
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. fighting Vulcans forge

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, swooped down upon us

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, swooped down upon us
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. The old one swooped down upon us

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Don Quixote, Progress of Camachos wedding

Don Quixote, Progress of Camachos wedding
Illustration from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Progress of Camachos wedding, with other delighhtful accidents

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Don Quixote - Bless me ! cried she, what is this

Don Quixote - Bless me ! cried she, what is this
Illustration from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Bless me ! cried she, what is this ?

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Don Quixote trampling cupid

Don Quixote trampling cupid
Illustration from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Don Quixote trampling cupid

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: How Don Quixote took his leave of the Duke

How Don Quixote took his leave of the Duke
Illustration from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, illustrated by Gustave Dore. How Don Quixote took his leave of the Duke

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Don Quixote, Knight defeated by cupids aroow

Don Quixote, Knight defeated by cupids aroow
Illustration from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Knight defeated by cupids aroow

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Don Quixote, Several particulars

Don Quixote, Several particulars
Illustration from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Several particulars necessary for the illustration of this history

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Warrior fighting with giant serpent dragon, Fantasy, Mythology

Warrior fighting with giant serpent dragon, Fantasy, Mythology
Vintage illustration of Warrior fighting with giant serpent dragon. Scene from Orlando Furioso, illustrated by Gustave Dore

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Medusa

La Fontaines Fables - Medusa
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The head of Medusa

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - Jupiter and the Thunderbolts

La Fontaines Fables - Jupiter and the Thunderbolts
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. Jupiter and the Thunderbolts

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - They heard, and were abashed

Miltons Paradise Lost - They heard, and were abashed
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung. Book I, lines 331

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Before the gates there sat

Miltons Paradise Lost - Before the gates there sat
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Before the gates there sat, on either side a formidable shape. Book II, lines 648, 649

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - happy rural seat

Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - happy rural seat
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. A happy rural seat of various view Book IV, line 247

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - greeting on thy impious crest receive

Miltons Paradise Lost - greeting on thy impious crest receive
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. This greeting on thy impious crest receive

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - And seems a moving land

Miltons Paradise Lost - And seems a moving land
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. And seems a moving land, and at his gills, Draws in, and at his trunk spouts outm a sea

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found

Miltons Paradise Lost - Him, fast sleeping, soon he found
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Him, fast sleeping, soon he found. In labyrinth of many a round, self-rolled

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Some natural tears they dropt

Miltons Paradise Lost - Some natural tears they dropt
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Adventures of Baron Munchausen, disembodied heads

Adventures of Baron Munchausen, disembodied heads
Vintage engraving of a scene from the Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Gustave Dore. disembodied heads

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Heroes and the blind man. Orlando Furioso

Heroes and the blind man. Orlando Furioso
Vintage illustration from the story Orlando Furioso. Heroes and the blind man. Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando) an Italian epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto, illustrated by Gustave Dore

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: The boat of Souls

The boat of Souls, a scene from Dantes purgatory. Engraving from 1870. Engraving by Gustave Dore, Photo by D Walker

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: La Fontaines Fables - The Wallet

La Fontaines Fables - The Wallet
Vintage engraving from La Fontaines Fables, Illustraed by Gustave Dore. The Wallet, Jupiter

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore pursues his way

Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore pursues his way
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks or wades, or creeps por flies. Book II, line 949, 950

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - Heaven rung

Miltons Paradise Lost - Gustave Dore - Heaven rung
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Heaven rung, With jubilee and loud hosannas filled the eternal regions. Book III, lines 347-349

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Infinite wrath, and infinite despair

Miltons Paradise Lost - Infinite wrath, and infinite despair
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Me miserable ! which why shall I fly. Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Book IV, line 73, 74

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - O Adam, one Almighty

Miltons Paradise Lost - O Adam, one Almighty
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. To whom the winged Hierarch replied, O Adam, one Almighty is, from whom. All things proceed

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - In search of whom they sought

Miltons Paradise Lost - In search of whom they sought
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. These to the bower direct, In search of whom they sought

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - Now storming fury rose

Miltons Paradise Lost - Now storming fury rose
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. Now storming fury rose, And clamourm such as heard in heaven till now, Was never

Background imageSpeculative Being Collection: Miltons Paradise Lost - On the foughten field

Miltons Paradise Lost - On the foughten field
Vintage engraving by Gustave Dore, from Miltons Paradise Lost. On the foughten field, Michael and his angels prevalent, Encamping, placed in guard their watches round



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