#british AND victorian?

[lemon-wedges]

Behold thou art fair, my beloved, behold thou art fair..let me see thy face, let me hear thy voice. For thy voice is harmonious and thy face enchanting, thou has ravished my heart...thy lips drop as the honeycomb....thy palate a heady wine that goes straight to my love and flows over my lips and teeth....

Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

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Monk x Shinto Priest Au

[abnormes]

On the Seashore, George Elgar Hicks (1879)

[constanzarte]

Pierre-Charles Comte, The secret rendezvous

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Night Angel Holding a Waning Moon Artist: William Morris (English, 1834-1896) Date: between 1857 and 1869 Genre: religious art Period: Victorian Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Arts and Crafts Movement Medium: watercolor, ink, graphite, and collage on mold-made paper Dimensions: 34 cm (13.4 in) high x 8.6 cm (3.4 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

[oncanvas]

Under the Moonbeams, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1887

Oil on board 18 x 14 ⅛ in. (46 x 35.9 cm)

[illustratus]

November by John Atkinson Grimshaw

[weirdlookindog]

Edward Henry Corbould (1815–1905) - Lord Ullin’s Daughter

illustration from Samuel Carter Hall's 'The Book of British Ballads', 1842

engraved by Samuel Williams

source

[eirene]

A Cavatina, 1888

Briton Riviere

[the-evil-clergyman]

Midsummer Night's Fairies by John George Naish (1856)

[megairea]

“I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.”

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

[thefugitivesaint]

Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916), ''Beauty and the Beast'', 1875 "After supper every night, the Beast asked Beauty to be his wife: and every night she said him nay." Source

[fayriequeene]

Some of the Pre Raphaelite artwork at Wightwick

[constanzarte]

L'Aurore, William-Adolphe Bouguereau. 1881.

[lionofchaeronea]

Swan, Rush, and Iris (design for a dado wallpaper), Walter Crane, 1875

[oncanvas]

Study for 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', Frank Dicksee, late 19th to early 20th century

Black and white chalk on buff paper 22 ¼ x 17 ½ in. (56.5 x 44.5 cm)

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

I really love the Lodgers, their designs are so varied and fun. I'm planning on drawing the rest of them as well, they're really good as a warm-up. Cantilupe is probably my favorite here, out of everyone we see she gives me the biggest Classic Mad Scientist vibe (barring Frankenstein and Hyde I think)

Misc thoughts under the cut because I love this comic

I love thinking about what the Lodgers are doing while all the primary plot is happening. Like, Jasper would probably hang out with Lavender and Cantilupe a lot for work stuff since they're cryptozoologists as well. Which is a delightful image to me, because he is an extremely mild-mannered werewolf kid hanging out with two very nice women who have the most deranged job in the world. Lavender is very sweet and all, but I don't believe for a second that you become the caretaker of Cthulus and Leviathans without being a little bit terrifying yourself. If not in personality certainly in skill.

Drawing so many of these guys in a row really made me appreciate some of the subtler design features of the whole cast. Like, almost all of the lodgers I've seen have some sort of protective eyewear on their person. The only one here who doesn't is Helsby, but he wouldn't need them, all of his research would be conducted through other types of equipment that you can't exactly carry around (like the diving suit we see him in just before the exhibition!) All the scientists that work with chemicals or other dangerous substances have rubber or leather gloves. Then, when I was looking at the icon of Arythusa's blog, I realized that we haven't seen Jekyll wear those goggles in the comic. Which makes perfect sense. During the events of the story Jekyll is so preoccupied with the social navigation of keeping the Society running that he doesn't have time to do his own experiments. The only times we see him actively brewing something are spur of the moment, like the cough suppressant, or when he's incredibly sleep deprived like in the flashbacks. That missing element from his design also visually aligns him with Lanyon more than any of the lodgers, which is very neat to me. I don't even know if all of this was on purpose, but it's cool regardless.