bewitched

Credits

The house artwork

Nothing a site can wear from the house collection is drawn by us, and none of it is generated. The ornaments are cut from engravings and etchings made between the 1650s and the 1820s — pattern sheets, published for exactly this purpose — and the pictures are paintings, prints and plates from the same museums and libraries. Each was released by the institution that holds it, either into the public domain under CC0 or for reuse with credit under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Where credit is asked for, it is given here and on the site that uses the work.

66 motifs from 53 plates, and 29 pictures. Every item's licence is re-checked against its source each week.

Pictures

The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Wellcome Collection, London — via Wikimedia Commons

Ornaments

Traced from the museum's scan, lifted off the paper, and drawn in the colour of the couple's own palette.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam — via Wikimedia Commons

Open Clip Art