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Photo by elisabeththornbrooke

stellar-raven:

Albany in the Snow (1871) by Walter Launt Palmer.

stellar-raven:

Lady Violet Henderson (1907) by John William Waterhouse.

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backfromthedeadred:

historythings:

shuta-666:

the (via She’s lovely. Does anyone know who the artist is? on we heart it / visual bookmark #7988260)

I’m reblogging this A) because I love it and B) to correct the poster’s tags.  This is most likely a Sargent, so turn of the century 19th-20th.  I recognize a Sargent when I see one. 

This is Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco by Giovanni Boldini.

One of my favorite Boldini pieces. It’s dated circa 1911.

oldbookillustrations:

I have therefore decided that my daughters, instead of having one maid each….

Hugh Thomson, from The admirable Crichton, by J. M. Barrie, London, New York, 1914.

(Source: archive.org)

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antiquememes:

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A spring day — Riverside Drive, New York.(1900)

 Ah, how I long for a real spring day where I live!

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egadegadegad:

What a nice photo!

I usually don’t like beaches…but I like this one.  If all beaches had people dressed like this on them, I would stop disliking beaches.

(Source: aharmlessfall)