#Grandville

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The drawing process of J. J. Grandville (via Bibliothèques de Nancy)

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Fleurs animées par J. J. Grandville

1867

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1975 Pontiac GrandVille

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Oh, to be a little flower fairy hanging out in the garden 🦋🌼

 J.J Grandville - Les Fleurs Animées, 1847

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Attributing human characteristics to animals and things: my bizarre collection of a thousand anthropomorphism images.

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That one time Grandville threatened to turn his female readers into animals (in Le Magasin Pittoresque, 1844)

The drawing that ends this shipment is a well known pencil game, ingeniously renewed by Grandville. Between the profile of a beautiful head and the most disgracious of our aquatic animals, there seems at first to be no connection possible. Grandville covers the distance, in a few minutes, through an increasing inclination of the line running through the prominent points of the face's build. He claims that through the same procedure he would have the most beautiful of our female readers undergo the same transformation with as much ease, by varying the results and reaching, following the different characteristics of their physiognomies, different degrees of the animal kingdom. We doubt that his challenge will will be accepted, and that this kind of "compared portraits" will ever make the fortune of any artist. The witty author of the Private Life of Animals believes nonetheless to owe some part of his success to this secret that he tells us today. But the knowledge of such secrets is of little use to disciples if their master does not give them, as they say, the manner to use them.

[theartprinter]

J. J. Grandville - Les Fleurs Animées "Lis"

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Grandville - The pussy changed into a woman (La chatte metamorphosee en femme) - Fables by La Fontaine.

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Poster advertising Queen's 'Innuendo' album (1991). Artwork by J. J. Grandville.

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Grandville, J. J. Tiere als Menschen verkleidet, 1853. by Halloween HJB Via Flickr: "Animals disguised as people"

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Illustration by J.J. Grandville for Emile de La Bédollière's "The Memoirs of a Crocodile" from Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux.

[freddiemercurylegendabovelegends]

Today, on October 14th, 1991 - Queen Story!

- 'The Show Must Go On' /'Keep Yourself Alive' released in UK on Parlophone

- B-Side: 'Keep Yourself Alive' by Brian May

🔸"'The Show Must Go On' came from Roger and John playing the sequence, and I started to put things down. At the beginning, it was just this chord sequence, but I had this strange feeling that it could be somehow important, and I got very impassioned and went and beavered away at it. I sat down with Freddie, and we decided what the theme should be and wrote the first verse. It's a long story, that song, but I always felt it would be important because we were dealing with things that were hard to talk about at the time, but in the world of music, you could do it."

- Brian May, Interview 1994

👉 Queen's innuendo album (and the majority of subsequent single releases) used illustrations by Grandville which were adapted and coloured.

(Grandville (1803-1847), whose real name was Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, was a caricaturist later recognized as a grandfather of Surrealism)

[grandvilledentist]

Bad Dental Work - Grandville Dentist

Grandville Dental Health Center, PC

#Unethical #Dr Rebecca Vanderbaan #Dr Larissa Bishop

[downthetubes]

Bryan Talbot's "Grandville" honoured by Angoulême Festival selection

The Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême has just unveiled their official selection for its 2025 awards, with nominations that include translations of graphic novels such as "Grandville Force Majeure" by Bryan Talbot

The Festival international de la bande dessinée d’Angoulême has just unveiled their official selection for its 2025 awards, with nominations that include translations of graphic novels such as Grandville Force Majeure by Bryan Talbot, translated into French by Philippe Touboul, published by Delirium. The selection highlights the diversity and richness of contemporary creation, confirming once…

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Interior of the church in Cons-la-Grandville, Lorraine region of France

French vintage postcard

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They've had many lives and many ages: cats I've met in my time travels.