Fire’s Remorse
Art Collage Rebecca Tillett Art Collage Rebecca Tillett

Fire’s Remorse

This is our newest piece and it’s hard to believe but this one sold out within just a couple hours at the Philly Oddities and Curiosities Expo. Both prints and our framed pieces. Sold out even faster than Going Stag No. 1 which has been our best selling piece at every market we’ve vended at since I created it last year.

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Memento Mori
Personal, History Rebecca Tillett Personal, History Rebecca Tillett

Memento Mori

This is one of our mini 4x6 prints. The original painting is titled Pearl of Grief and was created by Mary Jane Peale in 1855. Mary Jane hailed from a prominent family of painters and in fact, another of our pieces, Swarm Wishes, was created using a portrait of her father, Rubens Peale, painted by her uncle, Rembrandt Peale.

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Source cards
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Source cards

Did you know that —with the exception of our mini-prints—each of our prints comes with a list of the original historical public domain imagery we utilized to create that piece of art? Some of them are short and may only reference one or two sources (either because that’s all of the PD imagery utilized or because we simply couldn’t track down accurate source info for one or more of the elements), and some, like this one, are rife with sources.

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The morbs
Postcard, History Rebecca Tillett Postcard, History Rebecca Tillett

The morbs

“The morbs” is slang of the Victorian Era that indicates that someone is feeling temporarily depressed, melancholy or sad. “The British lexicographer Susie Dent described ‘having the morbs’ as ‘to sit under a cloud of despondency.’

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Touch Grass
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Touch Grass

Do you ever stumble on a process video in your feed and you’re like, oh ok, I’m interested, I’ll stop. And so you cash in a few minutes of your time because now you’re invested and curious about what this thing will be and look like in the end, and then you see the final product and think, well shit, meh. Wish I could have previewed this before I wasted a few of my precious minutes watching something being created that I’m not really into.

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Hangry
Postcard, History Rebecca Tillett Postcard, History Rebecca Tillett

Hangry

This was painted around 1820 near Madrid by Francisco Goya and called Saturn Devouring His Son. It was actually painted on one of the walls of his home at the time and later transferred to canvas after his death.

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Childbirth and  Puerperal Fever
Jewelry, History Rebecca Tillett Jewelry, History Rebecca Tillett

Childbirth and Puerperal Fever

Hundreds of years ago, when men calling themselves doctors decided to rob childbirth from the midwives and bring it into hospitals, the maternal mortality rate skyrocketed due to something called puerperal (or childbed) fever, a bacterial infection of the female reproductive tract following childbirth.

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New Life to Old Frames
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New Life to Old Frames

Just as we’ve preferred to upcycle used cigar boxes for our engraved boxes, we also love to repurpose old frames we find at local thrift and antique stores to display and sell our work at art markets.

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Paper and the Birdcage
Art Collage Rebecca Tillett Art Collage Rebecca Tillett

Paper and the Birdcage

As an artist and graphic designer, paper is incredibly important to me. I began my career 20 years ago just as digital was creeping into our lives and have watched, despairingly, as printing on paper has gradually lessened and lessened in preference for the digital realms.

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Going Stag
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Going Stag

Introducing our newest piece: Going Stag utilizing John Singer Sargent’s classic, Madame X.

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Anatomicam Cardiocorum Nervorum
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Anatomicam Cardiocorum Nervorum

Adding some color and depth to this 1794 illustration, Tabulae Nevrologicae ad Illustrandam Historiam Anatomicam Cardiocorum Nervorum by Antonio Scarpa.

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Insect and Terrarium Building
Rebecca Tillett Rebecca Tillett

Insect and Terrarium Building

Several weeks ago Mike and I took an Insect and Terrarium Building class at Black Moth here in Tulsa and not only had a blast and met some really great people, but learned so much too.

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Maria Celeste
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Maria Celeste

I have become enchanted by this woman because of her unique position, straddling the worlds of both science and religion, in 17th century Italy.

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Eye and Amazonite
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Eye and Amazonite

Did you know the original engraving of this eye was created in the 1600s? I feel like someone is staring at me from 400 years in the past.

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Nitimur in Vetitum
Rebecca Tillett Rebecca Tillett

Nitimur in Vetitum

Father’s Day gift for a family member: Custom designed, laser engraved cigar box.

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