1844 hand-tinted photograph of a dentist. This is thought to be the earliest extant studio photograph of a medical professional. From the Burns Archive
Mad as a hatter.
Even a monkey wouldn’t have fallen off.
Léon Benett., from Clovis Dardentor, by Jules Verne, Paris, 1900.
(Source: archive.org)
Hyde Park walking dress, 1810’s UK
This is probably the most specific outfit ever. Could you not be seen in this outside of Hyde Park?
A beautiful work that you don’t see very often.
Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck , In 1879, at the age of 17, Schjerfbeck began to be recognized for her art. She won third prize in a competition organised by the Finnish Art Society. Her art career started to blossom when some of her work was displayed in an annual Finnish Art Society exhibition in 1880.
Schjerbeck is considered to have become a modern painter. She produced still lifes and landscapes, as well as portraits, such as that of her mother, local school girls and women workers, and also self-portraits. Comparisons have been made with artists such as James McNeill Whistler and Edvard Munch, but as of 1905, her paintings take on a characteristic that can be attributed to her alone; she continued experimenting with various techniques, e.g., different types of underpaintings.
"Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs."
"In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, it had transferred all the public power to the people — the people which, guided neither by reason nor by counsels, forms just ideas on no point whatsoever; assesses few things in accordance with the truth and evaluates a great many according to mere opinion, which is ever fickle, and ever easy to deceive and to lead into every excess, ungrateful, arrogant, and cruel…"
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Pope Pius VI, Pourquoi Notre Voix, 17 July 1793. (from Durendal)
While as a Lutheran it is not my usual habit to quote from the Bishops of Rome - the old popes can always be counted on for some reactionary goodness.
