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wayofthehermit: Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1514–1575)

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:58:49 -0300

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Cornelis Floris de Vriendt (1514–1575)

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metalonmetalblog: Lovis Corinth, Hell, fragment c. 1901

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:03:33 -0300

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Lovis Corinth, Hell, fragment c. 1901

snowce: George Giguere, The Garden Dance

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:13:57 -0300

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George Giguere, The Garden Dance

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u-w: Johan Isaac Hollandus / The Hand of the Philosophers...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:51:11 -0300

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Johan Isaac Hollandus / The Hand of the Philosophers (1773)

compendium-of-beasts: Benjamin’s Emblem, 2000, Walton Ford Paul...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:45:29 -0300

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Benjamin’s Emblem, 2000, Walton Ford

Paul Kasmin Gallery

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megabone: Eaten to death by rats The Illustrated Police News...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:14:45 -0300

megabone:

Eaten to death by rats

The Illustrated Police News reported strange case in the 1870s.

HORRIBLE DISCOVERY OF A GIRL EATEN BY RATS

A most appalling discovery was made last week in the town of Haverball. The circumstances of the case are both remarkable and horrible to the last degree. The facts are as follows:

For some months past a man named William Laslett, his wife, and a daughter (a girl about thirteen years of age) have occupied two rooms on the basement story of a house in Princess Street. Laslett, it appears, is a traveling hawker in the hardware line; he keeps a horse and cart, with which he travels from town to town, and has been accustomed to be absent from home six or eight weeks at a time. Occasionally, he would take with him his daughter on his traveling expeditions, but more frequently his wife accompanied him.

He left Princess Street with the latter seven weeks ago, Jane Laslett the daughter remaining behind. The young girl was seen by her neighbors for a few days after her parents had departed, when all of a sudden she was missed. The doors of both rooms in the occupation of the Laslett’s were locked, and the natural inference was that Jane had left to join her parents, and she had been known to do so before on more than one occasion. Weeks passed over; the suspicions of the other occupants of the house that something was amiss became stronger every day.

An unpleasant and sickening odour crept up the staircase and found its way into the several apartments. On Monday last, a carpenter who occupied one of the upper rooms was prevailed upon to break open the door, which led to those on the basement, whereupon he was horror struck at the sight presented to him.

Upon the door being burst open, a legion of rats scampered in all directions. The greater portion of the body of the poor girl had been devoured by the rats. The medical gentlemen who have since made a post mortem examination, concur in the opinion that Jane Laslett died suddenly from disease of the heart of long standing - that her death had in all probability taken place some weeks back, since which time the rats had been feeding on the body.

The father and mother have not yet returned, nor do the neighbours know where to communicate with them.

The Illustrated Police News was one of the earliest British tabloids. It featured sensational and melodramatic reports and illustrations of murders and hangings and was a direct descendant of the execution broadsheets of the 18th century.

First published in 1864, The Illustrated Police News ended publication in 1938. It was inspired by The Illustrated London News which had been launched because newspapers with illustrations sold more copies in Victorian England. It gained a reputation for sensationalism during the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888 which it covered in prurient detail.