Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus — Illustrated By Bernie Wrightson (American, 1948-2017)

"I had done a hellish thing" (illustration for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner), Gustave Doré, 1876

Illustration from The Ship of Ishtar by Virgil Finlay (1949)

El Dorado, from The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edmund Dulac (1912)

Odalisque by Georg Pauli (1881)

Edgar Hewett, front, side and rear view of monument in Quirigua, Guatemala 1909

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

Odalisque by Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Odalisques by Henri Adrien Tanoux (1905)

Odalisque by Henri Adrien Tanoux (1920)

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Dominique Louis Féréol Papety (Marseille 1815-1848)

The odalisque / La odalisca