Selene (1880)
by Albert Aublet (France, 1841–1938)

Albert Aublet’s mastery of symbolism and atmosphere shines in Selene, a dreamlike vision inspired by the Greek goddess of the moon. Suspended in a luminous, cloud-filled sky scattered with fading stars, the ethereal figure glides above a landscape of violet mountains and shimmering blue waters.

Gracefully embracing the crescent moon, Selene appears at the close of her nightly passage across the heavens. Aublet’s delicate use of color and light creates a scene that is both serene and enchanting, capturing the quiet transition between night and dawn. The painting’s blend of mythological subject matter and Art Nouveau elegance makes it a captivating example of late 19th-century symbolism.

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The German Tango (Lady Dances with Death) (1916)
by Louis Raemaekers (Netherlands, 1869–1956)

Death is a pitiless partner: when called to the dance, it claims eternal possession. This is the merciless verdict of The German Tango, a symbolic cartoon by the Dutch painter Louis Raemaekers. Raemaekers produced about 1,000 works on World War I and is one of the most prominent cartoonists of the war, contributing significantly to anti-German propaganda.

Louis Raemaekers’ The German Tango is a grim wartime illustration that captures the folly of Europe’s ruling class during World War I. A crowned woman, representing aristocratic Europe, appears entranced as she dances with a skeletal figure. Her posture suggests surrender or denial, emphasizing the pull of power and the blindness to looming catastrophe.

The skeleton, symbolizing death and German militarism, clutches his partner in an eerie waltz that speaks to Raemaekers’ biting criticism. Through sharp visual metaphor, he condemns the elites for their complacency and romanticized diplomacy while war devastated the continent. This piece is a haunting indictment of leadership lost in performance while destruction danced ever closer.

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The Crystal Ball (1902)
by John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917)

Enchanting and richly atmospheric, The Crystal Ball is one of John William Waterhouse’s most celebrated works, capturing a moment suspended between reality and the unknown. With her gaze fixed on a glowing crystal sphere, the central figure invites viewers into a world of mystery, wonder, and quiet contemplation.

A master of storytelling through symbolism, Waterhouse balances the painting’s serene beauty with subtle intrigue. The figure’s graceful presence suggests innocence and introspection, while hidden details within the composition hint at deeper themes of fate, mortality, and the supernatural. Every element is carefully arranged to draw the viewer further into the scene and spark their own interpretation of what visions may be unfolding within the crystal ball.

Distinguished by its Renaissance-inspired architectural setting and Waterhouse’s signature attention to color, light, and texture, The Crystal Ball remains a timeless example of the artist’s ability to blend elegance with mystery. Reproduced on a premium matte poster, this captivating artwork brings a sense of romance, imagination, and classic beauty to any space.

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Geraint and Enid Ride Away (1868)
by Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)

This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Enid" idyll (later "Geraint and Enid")

Mounted, and reached a hand, and on his foot
She set her own and climbed; he turned his face
And kissed her climbing, and she cast her arms
About him, and at once they rode away.

Doré's masterful engraving style brings warmth and emotion to the scene, transforming a brief passage of poetry into a vivid visual narrative. The graceful composition and delicate details highlight themes of love, loyalty, courage, and companionship, making this piece a standout work of Victorian illustration.

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Departure for the Sabbath [Départ pour le Sabbat] (1910)
by Albert Joseph Pénot (France, 1862-1930)

Albert Joseph Pénot (28 February 1862 – 16 October 1930) was a French painter known for female forms and landscapes. Today, he is more popularly and specifically recognized for a subset of paintings centering on women of darker, more macabre themes.

Pénot was concerned first and foremost with anatomically accurate portrayals of women. Singular female forms were the implicit focus of his work, whereas the worlds surrounding his characters are seldom realized beyond misty atmospheres and patches of shadow and light. Environments are incidental and are typically shrouded in haze, giving the figures themselves explicit priority.

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Circle of Women Dancing
by Unknown

Celebrate history, tradition, and feminine unity with this stunning vintage black and white photography poster. Featuring young women dancing in a circle outdoors, possibly during a May Day (Beltane) festival, this artwork captures the beauty of folk customs and community celebrations. The high-quality matte finish enhances the photograph's rich contrast and classic aesthetic, making it perfect for vintage-inspired interiors, bohemian spaces, meditation rooms, or gallery walls. A thoughtful gift for lovers of historical photography, folklore, and cultural heritage.

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Crow on a Cloudy Day
by Unknown 

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Hypnosis (1904)
by Sascha Schneider (Germany, 1870-1927)

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The Destruction of Leviathan (1866)
Engraving by Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)

Destruction of Leviathan is based on the Biblical story of Leviathan referenced in the book of Job. Leviathan is described as a giant fire-breathing serpent so terrifying that just the sight of it would drive men insane. The Book of Isaiah later says that on Judgement day, God will slay the serpent. 

The serpent's face likely modeled on depictions of the great Midgard Serpent in Norse tales, and the battle scene itself was based on the Rig Veda, where Indra kills Vritra (the first born of dragons), with a thunderbolt. 

The Destruction of Leviathan represents the abolishment of darkness and insanity. In this work, Gustave uses his depiction of the creature to show the resemblances to terrible creatures described in other various religions to showcase his personal unification philosophy. 

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1927 Solar Eclipse Photograph (1927)
by Sir Frank Dyson, Royal Astronomer
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, UK

June 1927 saw Britain in the grip of eclipse fever. A total eclipse of the sun, the first to be visible in Britain for more than 200 years, was predicted for 29 June. The path of totality ran across North Wales and Central England, from Criccieth in North Wales to Hartlepool on the east coast.

This photograph, taken by Royal Astronomer Sir Frank Dyson of the eclipse, is an excellent example of early astronomy photography and makes a great minimalist wall art piece.

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Trio of Women Dancing (1918)
Photograph from Dancing with Helen Moller

Bring the grace and enduring beauty of classical movement into your space with Trio of Women Dancing, a striking fine art poster drawn from Dancing with Helen Moller. Originally published as one of 43 illustrations celebrating classical dance, this evocative image reflects Moller's vision of movement inspired by the ideals of ancient Greece and adapted for the modern world.

Accompanied by Moller's powerful reflection on the contrast between classical harmony and human struggle, the artwork celebrates a timeless ideal of balance, beauty, and serenity. The three dancers move in elegant unity, embodying the calm strength and elevated spirit that Moller admired in Greek art and philosophy.

Printed on premium matte paper, this museum-inspired reproduction offers rich detail and a soft, glare-free finish, making it a sophisticated addition to living rooms, studios, libraries, offices, or creative spaces. Perfect for lovers of dance, classical art, and vintage illustration, this piece serves as both a captivating visual statement and a tribute to the enduring pursuit of beauty through movement.

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1927 Solar Eclipse Photograph (1927)
by Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, UK

In June 1927, Britain was gripped by eclipse fever. A total solar eclipse — the first visible from British soil in over 200 years — traced a path of totality across North Wales and Central England, from Criccieth to Hartlepool on the east coast. Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Dyson captured the moment, and this photograph stands as a rare document of both scientific history and celestial wonder.

Printed on gallery-quality canvas, it brings a quiet, contemplative energy to any wall — equal parts scientific artifact and minimalist art object.

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The Witch (Night Piece) (1626)
by Jan van de Velde II (Dutch, 1593–1641)

A nocturnal scene of dark enchantment: a sorceress stands within a magic circle etched into the ground — a supernaturally consecrated space — as she overturns a horn into a cauldron engulfed in billowing flames. Two streams of ash spew from pipes held by a somersaulting demon at her left. Around her, grotesque creatures make knowing and silly faces at the viewer, threading whimsy and farce through an ostensibly serious occult subject.

Van de Velde's swirling, decorative composition is a masterwork of Dutch Golden Age printmaking — equally at home in a witch's study or a darkly curated living room.

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Skeletons, also known as Allegory of Death and Fame (1518)
Designed by Rosso Fiorentino; engraved by Agostino Veneziano (Italian, 1490–1540)

For centuries, scholars have debated the allegorical meaning of this print. Giorgio Vasari, 16th-century artist and author, described it simply as "an anatomy of desiccated bodies and of bones of the dead." A central figure of winged Death stands over an interred skeleton, surrounded by skeletal and living human figures who appear to debate the fate of the soul.

At far left stands a "marasmic" man — a sun-dried body used by anatomists to study musculature without removing the skin. Rosso Fiorentino, a Florentine contemporary of Michelangelo who designed this composition, had planned a book on anatomy that was never published. This print is all that remains of that ambition.

A meditation on mortality that holds its own on any wall — unsettling, erudite, and impossible to ignore.

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Chauve-Souris D'Egypte [Bats of Egypt] (1809)
by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (French, 1772–1844)

When Napoleon invaded Ottoman Egypt in 1798, he brought an unusual contingent alongside his army: over 150 scientists, artists, and scholars tasked with documenting everything they encountered. This print is the first plate from the Histoire Naturelle volumes of the Description de l'Égypte — the monumental publication that resulted from that expedition.

Three species are depicted with the precision of scientific illustration: the Bare-Bellied Tomb Bat, the Hollow-Faced Bat, and the Common Pipistrelle Bat. Creatures of the night, rendered with the cool exactitude of Enlightenment science — and a natural fit for walls that appreciate the darker side of the natural world.

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Boreas (1903)
by John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917)

In Greek mythology, Boreas is the god of the north wind — cold, powerful, and untameable. Waterhouse renders his presence not as a figure but as a force: a young woman caught mid-step, her slate and blue draperies whipping around her as an invisible hand pulls her forward. Pink blossoms and yellow daffodils frame the scene, spring's softness set against something wilder and older.

It's a painting about surrender and resilience in equal measure — the girl's stance poised yet dynamic, neither fleeing nor fully yielding. Waterhouse's signature Pre-Raphaelite lyricism is here at its most atmospheric.

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Plate XV from British Butterflies, Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species (1897)
by William Stephen Coleman (English, 1829–1904)

Published in 1897, British Butterflies was one of the finest Victorian natural history volumes of its kind — a meticulous, beautifully illustrated survey of every butterfly species native to England. Coleman, a painter and illustrator known for his delicate naturalist work, rendered each specimen with the kind of quiet reverence that makes Victorian scientific illustration so enduring.

Plate XV depicts six species: the Scarce Swallow-tail, Apollo, Arran Brown, Weaver's Fritillary, Purple-edged Copper, and Tailed-Blue — each pinned in perfect detail against a clean ground. A piece for the collector who finds beauty in taxonomy, and darkness in the ephemeral.

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Death of a Crow (2020)
Artist Unknown

A single crow, rendered in precise detail, set against an ornate decorative background. The composition is still and deliberate — the kind of image that rewards a long look.

Crows have carried symbolic weight across nearly every culture that has encountered them: messengers between worlds in Norse mythology, omens of transformation in Celtic tradition, psychopomps guiding souls in various folk beliefs. They are among the most intelligent birds on earth, capable of recognizing individual human faces, using tools, and holding what researchers describe as "crow funerals" — gatherings around their dead that may serve as collective learning or mourning. The title here is not morbid so much as honest: death, for the crow, is not an ending but a threshold.

For walls that understand the difference.

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Fairy Riding a Bat (1921)
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (Australian, 1888–1960)

A small fairy sits astride a bat in full flight, her posture easy and unafraid — not a passenger but a rider, entirely at home in the dark air. It is a quietly radical image for 1921.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was one of Australia's most beloved illustrators, known for her delicate watercolors of fairies, elves, and magical creatures. Her work appeared in children's books throughout the 1910s and 1920s, but her fairies were never merely decorative. They inhabit wild landscapes, float above rocky coastlines and deep seas, and move through the world with a self-possession that was unusual for feminine subjects of the era. Outhwaite's figures don't wait to be rescued — they ride bats through the night.

For walls that know the difference between whimsy and wonder.

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Hypnotism Owl (1903)
Cover of Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism
by A. Alpheus, published by M.A. Donohue & Co., Chicago

An owl stares directly out from the cover of a 1903 Chicago guidebook on hypnotism, mesmerism, and spiritualism. Its gaze is fixed and unblinking — which, for a book about the power of the directed mind, is exactly right.

The late Victorian and Edwardian eras were gripped by a genuine fascination with hypnotism and mesmerism. Stage hypnotists filled theaters. Physicians debated whether trance states could cure hysteria. Spiritualist societies held séances in parlors across America and Britain. Books like this one — practical guides promising to teach the reader the secrets of mind control and thought transference — sold in enormous numbers. The owl on the cover, ancient symbol of hidden knowledge and nocturnal sight, was a natural choice for a subject that promised to reveal what ordinary consciousness could not see.

The book is long out of print. The owl is still watching.

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Kriemhild (1924)
Promotional photograph of Margarete Schön
from Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Rache, directed by Fritz Lang
Universum Film (UFA)

A woman in dark robes stares directly into the camera. Her face is still. Her eyes are not.

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Rache (1924) is the second part of Fritz Lang's monumental two-film adaptation of the medieval German epic Das Nibelungenlied. Lang — who would go on to direct Metropolis and M — brought the full resources of Weimar-era German cinema to the project: vast sets, thousands of extras, and a visual language drawn from German Expressionism that turned myth into architecture.

Kriemhild, played by Margarete Schön, begins the story as a grieving widow. By the film's end she has become something else entirely — a force of pure, patient vengeance who will burn a hall full of men to the ground rather than let her husband's murder go unanswered. Her costume design is deliberate: dark, enveloping, obscuring everything except her face. The eyes do the work.

This promotional photograph captures that transformation. It is not a portrait. It is a warning.

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Meteoric Shower of Nov. 13, 1833 (1889)
by Adolf Vollmy (Swiss)

The sky is on fire. Thousands of streaks of light pour downward from a single point above the horizon, so dense they overlap, so bright they illuminate the figures watching from below — some kneeling, some fleeing, some simply standing with their faces turned upward in awe or terror.

On the night of November 12–13, 1833, the Leonid meteor shower produced one of the most spectacular celestial events in recorded history. Estimates suggest that up to 100,000 meteors per hour fell across North America — so many that witnesses described the sky as raining fire, the stars falling like snowflakes. Many people who saw it believed the world was ending. Churches filled before dawn. The event was reported across the continent and became one of the most widely documented astronomical phenomena of the 19th century.

It also launched the scientific study of meteor showers. Astronomers who investigated the 1833 storm were the first to establish that meteors originate from specific points in the sky — what we now call radiant points — and that they recur on predictable schedules tied to cometary debris.

Adolf Vollmy's engraving was published in 1889 in a religious almanac, where it illustrated a passage about signs in the heavens. The image captures both the scientific reality and the human experience of that night: the sky transformed into something impossible, and the small figures below trying to make sense of it.

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Portrait of Maud Wagner (1907)
Unknown Photographer

A woman sits for the camera, her arms bare, her skin covered in tattoos from shoulder to wrist. She looks directly into the lens. She is not performing. She is simply showing you who she is.

Maud Stevens Wagner (1877–1961) was an American circus performer — an aerialist and contortionist — and the first known female tattoo artist in the United States. She met Gus Wagner at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Gus described himself as "the most artistically marked up man in America," which was probably accurate. Maud agreed to go on a date with him on one condition: he had to teach her to tattoo. He did. Several years later, they were married.

After leaving the circus, Maud and Gus traveled the country working as tattoo artists and tattooed attractions at vaudeville houses, county fairs, and amusement arcades. They are credited with bringing the practice of tattooing inland from the coastal port cities where it had taken root — spreading it across the American interior at a time when it was still considered deeply transgressive.

Maud continued tattooing until she was in her eighties, using traditional hand-poke methods rather than an electric machine. She outlived Gus by decades and trained her daughter in the craft. She is a founding figure of American tattoo history, and this photograph — taken when she was thirty — is one of the earliest known portraits of a female tattoo artist at work.

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Kraft und List [Power and Cunning] (1880)
by Baron Josef Árpád Koppay von Drétoma (Hungarian, 1859–1927)

A lion rests against a winged woman in a cemetery. A chain encircles the lion's neck. The woman holds the other end — or perhaps she doesn't need to. The lion is not straining. It is leaning.

Baron Josef Árpád Koppay von Drétoma was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter who worked across Vienna, Paris, and Rome, known for technically accomplished society portraits and allegorical works that carried a darker undercurrent than his commissions might suggest. Kraft und List — Power and Cunning — is one of his most striking allegorical paintings: the lion representing brute strength, the winged woman representing intelligence and strategy, the chain between them making the argument explicit.

The painting is a variation of an earlier work, The Strong and the Weak, in which the same figures appear without the cemetery setting and without the woman's wings. The additions are significant. The wings elevate cunning from mere cleverness to something closer to the divine. The cemetery suggests that this contest — between force and intelligence — has only one long-term outcome.

The lion is not the one holding the chain.

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The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse (1498)
by Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)

They are coming. All four of them, at once, from the right side of the image, bearing down on a crowd of people who have nowhere to go. An angel watches from above. Below the horses' hooves, the bodies are already piling up.

Albrecht Dürer was the greatest printmaker of the Northern Renaissance — a German artist who combined the technical precision of the goldsmith's tradition in which he trained with an imagination of extraordinary scope. In 1498, at the age of twenty-seven, he published The Apocalypse: a series of fifteen large-format woodcuts illustrating the Book of Revelation. It was the first book in history to be both written and illustrated by the same artist, and it made Dürer famous across Europe almost overnight.

The Four Horsemen is the series' most iconic image. Dürer renders the riders — Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death — not as distant symbols but as an immediate physical force: robes and clouds whipped by the speed of their approach, horses overlapping in a crush of momentum, the figures beneath them trampled without ceremony. The composition has no center of calm. Everything is motion, weight, and inevitability.

The finest impressions of the print were made without the accompanying text — the image alone, which is how it appears here.

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The Green Masque (1920)
by Sir Oswald Birley (English, 1880–1952)

A woman in Venetian carnival dress stands against a dark background, her face pale and composed, lashes lowered. She wears a green mask pushed up above her brow — not concealing her, but framing her. The mask is the subject. So is the face beneath it.

Sir Oswald Birley was one of the most sought-after portrait painters in early 20th-century Britain, known for his ability to capture not just the likeness of his subjects but their particular quality of presence. He painted royalty, politicians, and society figures with equal facility, and his work is held in collections across the UK and beyond.

The subject of The Green Masque is Rhoda, his wife — which gives the painting a different register than his commissioned portraits. This is not a society commission. It is a painter turning his full attention on the person he knows best, in a costume that is simultaneously theatrical and intimate. The Venetian carnival setting, with its tradition of disguise and revelation, suits the ambiguity perfectly: she is masked and unmasked at the same time.

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The Nightmare (1781)
by Henry Fuseli (Swiss-British, 1741–1825)

A woman lies sprawled across a bed, arms thrown back, head hanging. On her chest crouches a small, apelike demon — squat, grinning, perfectly at home. Behind the curtain at the edge of the frame, a horse's head pushes through, eyes white and blind, nostrils flared. The woman is asleep. She cannot see any of it.

Henry Fuseli was one of the defining painters of the Romantic movement — a Swiss-born artist who spent most of his career in London and became famous for his willingness to paint what reason could not explain: dreams, visions, supernatural encounters, the irrational forces that operate on the sleeping mind. Where his contemporaries painted history and landscape, Fuseli painted the inside of the skull.

The Nightmare, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782, was an immediate sensation. It spoke directly to something audiences recognized but had no polite language for: the experience of waking from a dream with a weight on your chest, unable to move, certain something is in the room with you. We now understand this as sleep paralysis — a state in which the body remains immobilized while the mind is partially conscious, often accompanied by hallucinations of a presence or a pressure.

Fuseli knew the folklore. The word "nightmare" derives from mara, a Scandinavian spirit believed to sit on sleepers' chests and cause suffocation. The horse at the edge of the frame is almost certainly a visual pun — mare, nightmare — and a deliberate nod to the tradition Fuseli was painting his way into. The demon on the chest is the mara made visible. The horse is the word made flesh.

It remains one of the most reproduced paintings in Western art history, and one of the most immediately legible: you know exactly what is happening, because some version of it has probably happened to you.

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• Inner frame: radiata pine from renewable forests
• Leveling bumpers included for wall protection
• Ready to hang — mounting hardware pre-attached

Care: Dust gently with a clean, damp cloth as needed.