prints
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Some of the probably inspiration for this blog’s wallpaper.
Wallpaper designs, William Morris, 19th century.
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Actually he did – the trend of most depictions of any royal is make them younger, but here’s an early colour shot from a few years before he died – he’s mostly white
Amazing Edward VI colour litho – must be very late hence the white beard, who said history was dull?
Is Edward VII and the one who colored this made it awfully since he never had a white beard like that
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Amazing Edward VI colour litho – must be very late hence the white beard, who said history was dull?
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ooh one on the right, report to my bedroom at 0200 hours, please!
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.
Rossetti’s art was characterised by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. His later poetry was characterised by the complex interlinking of thought and feeling, especially in his sonnet sequence The House of Life. Poetry and image are closely entwined in Rossetti’s work; he frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, from The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) to Astarte Syriaca (1877), one of his last completed works.
Rossetti’s personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth, and Jane Morris.
Image: Albumen print of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1863
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Just don’t drop it in the shower…
1900 Lifebuoy Royal Disinfectant Soap Advert; for preservation of health
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I LOVE harkavagrant aka beattona I’ve been following her on LJ for yars and yars!
I can imagine Edgar being a bit of a killjoy when it came to bromance, whereas Jules ROCKS.
harkavagrant.com
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Umbrella warfare
Whereas the modern umbrella-rella-rella stance is what can cause the most damage to others in London!
Umbrella characteristics. (1876)
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It might be my memory but I don’t remember bears or bear wrestling in any of the Great Train Robberies. Maybe it was the Great Bear Heist of 1898 or something…via Library of Congress