The Lion of Chaeronea

So, my silly little text post on the solstice has over 5,000 notes? God, I love Tumblr.

The Rainbow, John Glover, 1794

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, Happy Summer Solstice. And if you live in the Southern Hemisphere, Happy Winter Solstice. And if you live directly on the Equator, Happy "Wait, What's a Solstice?"

Fishing in Summer Shade, Wu Wei, 1483

Cabinet photograph of a woman in a plaid dress, shown in three-quarter view. Unknown photographer in the employ of Fisher & Monfort, Plainfield, NJ. Now in the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.

Emancipation: The Past and the Future, unknown artist, 1863

Pont des Saints Pères. no.38, Charles Marville, ca. 1877. Photographic print on cardboard. Now in the State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Castle on the Rhône, Gustave Doré, ca. 1878

Sunlight in a Cafeteria, Edward Hopper, 1958

The Young Sabot Maker, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1895

Growing Flowers, Mary Forrer Peirce, 1869

Dutch Fisherman with His Child, Friedrich Kallmorgen, 1889

Monterey Coast, William Frederic Ritschl, after 1911

Listening to the Sea, Karl Gussow, 1879

Ducks in the Rain, Frank Weston Benson, 1918

The Detective, József Rippl-Rónai, 1923

Portrait of a Woman Playing a Guitar, Julie Volpelière, 1813 or 1815