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People who love monsters will enjoy these watercolor drawings from a treatise on spells and demons compiled by an Iranian soothsayer. According to the  Public Domain Review: “Most of the figures shown are far from ordinary or angelic. A blue man with claws, four horns, and a projecting red tongue is no less frightening for the fact that he’s wearing a candy-striped loincloth. In another image we see a moustachioed goat man with tuber-nose and polka dot skin maniacally concocting a less-than-appetising dish. One recurring (and worrying) theme is demons visiting sleepers in their beds, scenes involving such pleasant activities as tooth-pulling, eye-gouging, and — in one of the most engrossing illustrations — a bout of foot-licking (performed by a reptilian feline with a shark-toothed tail).” “The wonderful images draw on Near Eastern demonological traditions that stretch back millennia — to the days when the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud  asserted  it was a blessing demons were invisib

Here’s a group of plein-air studies by  Laurits Tuxen  (Danish, 1853-1927) Like most artists of his era, he painted studies during his travels to the Holy Land. He kept these studies as possible reference for his studio paintings. —– Previously: Valdemar by Tuxen Wikipedia on Laurits Tuxen