Conservation

We have to kill it to save it. Link…

Karl von Amira

Karl Konrad Ferdinand Maria von Amira (1848-1930), studied jurisprudence in Munich. His collection of drawings, copperplate prints, photographs, etchings, postcards, watercolours and blueprints documenting court scenes, punishments, trials by ordeal and oaths was intended for publication as an Atlas of Legal Archaeology. It was never published but the somewhat eerie and at times, gruesome material is available at The Digital Library Department of the Bavarian State Library. Link…

The Babes In The Wood

What a tale!

Thus wandered these two prettye babes,
Till death did end their grief;
In one another’s armes they dyed,
As babes wanting relief.

No burial these prettye babes
Of any man receives,
Till Robin-redbreast painfully
Did cover them with leaves.

The endnotes say "The humour of Randolph Caldecott’s drawings is simply irresistible, no healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without laughing." Yes, I bet they had the kids ROFL. Link…

Oriental Field Sports

Quite possibly the first extensive guide to hunting in India written by an Englishman. Thomas Williamson, London: 1808. Illustrations by Samuel Howett. Link…

Wife-Beater

Andy Capp (Tuffa Viktor in Sweden, Willi Wacker in Germany, André Chapeau in France, and Kasket Karl in Denmark) by Reg Smythe at the British Cartoon Archive. Link…