James Ensor, Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring, 1891

Meet James ensor… Belgium’s famous painter…

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William Blake’s engravings were typically ultra-serious, but I can’t look at his illustration for William Hayley’s Ballads (1805) without laughing! Is this the tragic finale of a nude game of catch-the-frisbee-with-Fido that went terribly wrong?

#vintageillustration #wtfblake #williamblake #thefool https://instagr.am/p/CHneGNGAMif/

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