victorians
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twelve feet, six inches
“During Abraham Lincoln‘s campaign for the presidency, a Missouri Democrat named Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri, swore that he would never shave again if Abe were elected. Tapley kept his word and kept his beard growing from November 1860 until he died in 1910, attaining a length of twelve feet, six inches.”
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Not sure if I posted this alternative picture of HRH Henry of Battenburg, and son-in-law of Queen Victoria – the other picture is still the wallpaper on my phone, has been for years. This is the epitomy of style to me.
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From XMarks The Scot forum:
“The child in the photo (with his father) is Wilhelm II of Germany … later to be Emperor Wilhelm II during World War I (whilst his relatives ‘King George V’ of the UK and ‘Czar Nicholas II’ of Russia were also grand-children of Queen Victoria against Germany during WWI – the same years in which King George V formed the Windsor family to replace the German family name ” “Saxe-Coburg and Gotha” )“ -
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar WildeI suspect this is hand coloured but there was also early colour photography. Don’t know why this picture took me by surprise then….possibly because I’m used to blurry B&W portraits and nothing as clean and clear as this?
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Still photograph the original production of The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
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One half of a stereo photograph of Wilkie Collins 1874 by Napoleon Sarony
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A later illustration of Wilkie Collins 1890
Published in Illustrirte Welt (Illustrated World). Engraving based on a photograph taken at the same time as that published by F M Lupton as a frontispeice to The Yellow Mask around this time. (info from here) -
Wilkie Collins, novelist 1875
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I do sometimes cover old artistic nudity or naturism (no sex please we’re British) in this blog, so if y’all bothered by that then please unfollow/unsub.
I’m loving Academic Nudes for 19th century life drawings and paintings…big part of academic art training in Victorian times was the life model, many studies of men, women and children in the classical mode to help with later work painting and sculpting. When I did art training apart from my foundation this had mostly fallen out of favour…shame because I loved life drawing. I do wonder about the models – it paid well but in the social mores of the time it was frowned upon, although there were many contradictions, it was far from covering ankles of chairs…
Melina Eudoxie Daviau (1874-1961): Academic Male Nudes 1900-1907
