Villiany - Fruitless Plots.

real estate agent: so what kind of property are you looking for?

me: a simple cave with fewer goblins than most

Émile Bayard (engraved by Hildibrand), Autour de la Lune (All Around The Moon); Jules Verne, Paris, c. 1872.

Carl Larsson (28 May 1853 – 22 January 1919) 

Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: Illustrations from The Angel of Death By Johan Olaf Wallin. Translated from the Swedish in the original meters by Clement B. Shaw, A.M. Illustrated by Carl Larsson. Chicago: The Engberg-Holmberg Pub. Co., 1910.