Fun Friday Resources

Let’s have some image resources to plunder.

First up, from Europeana, lots and lots of insects, painted by a German prisoner of war during WWI.

Some bizarre and wonderful surreal illustrations, before surrealism was a thing.

Some sensational — as in ‘titillating’ — engravings of maritime disasters and their aftermaths.

Lastly, the Metropolitan Museum’s enormous collection of 140,000 images. (Note: that link sorts the images by title. If you sort by “Viewed,” well, let’s just say that the general public is not looking for 17th-c. Flemish landscapes.)