Scope and Horror

Illustration of a bird flying.

Scope & Horror

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Online gallery and shop for art, ephemera, and cabinet curiosities

existential dread, anatomy, art, astrology, astronomer, astronomy, black bile, blood, fairytales, folklore, four humors, obscure history, zodiac, bad luck, tarot, fortune, history, horoscope, humors, illustration, literature, lore, luna, magic, magic mirror, medicine, melancholia, melancholy, miasma, moon, mythology, phlegm, quarter moon, robert burton, spleen, superstition, taxonomy, the anatomy of melancholy, writing,

Jennifer Van Orman