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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

pirate-queen: Steampunk Fashion ;) Amber / © Beyond The Sea Arts

pirate-queen:

Steampunk Fashion ;) Amber / © Beyond The Sea Arts

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barauxfolies: Le bal à l’opéra by Constantin Ernest Adolphe Hyacinthe Guys, watercolor and plume, 28 x 19.8 cm, sold at Sotheby’s Monaco in 1993 “The specific beauty of the dandy consists particularly in that cold exterior resulting from the unshakeable determination to remain unmoved; one is reminded of a latent fire, whose existence is merely suspected, and which, if it wanted to, but it does not, could burst forth in all its brightness. All that is expressed to perfection in these illustrations.” Charles Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, trans. P.E. Charvet (Viking 1972), p. 422. source: www.artnet.com / http://www.idehist.uu.se

barauxfolies:

Le bal à l’opéra by Constantin Ernest Adolphe Hyacinthe Guys, watercolor and plume, 28 x 19.8 cm, sold at Sotheby’s Monaco in 1993

“The specific beauty of the dandy consists particularly in that cold exterior resulting from the unshakeable determination to remain unmoved; one is reminded of a latent fire, whose existence is merely suspected, and which, if it wanted to, but it does not, could burst forth in all its brightness. All that is expressed to perfection in these illustrations.”

Charles Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, trans. P.E. Charvet (Viking 1972), p. 422.

source: www.artnet.com / http://www.idehist.uu.se

stilllifequickheart: Claude Raguet Hirst Still Life with Lyre and Plaque Late 19th-early 20th century

stilllifequickheart:

Claude Raguet Hirst

Still Life with Lyre and Plaque

Late 19th-early 20th century

missfolly: Sébah and Joaillier (photographers of the sultan) - Café in Istanbul, end of 1800s

missfolly:

Sébah and Joaillier (photographers of the sultan) - Café in Istanbul, end of 1800s

missfolly: Wilhelm Richter - Military Encampment

missfolly:

Wilhelm Richter - Military Encampment

missfolly: James Edward Buttersworth - The Clipper ‘Flying Fish’, Commemorating the Great Deep-Sea Derby, ca. 1852

missfolly:

James Edward Buttersworth - The Clipper ‘Flying Fish’, Commemorating the Great Deep-Sea Derby, ca. 1852

missfolly: John Stobart - Independence, the Start of the Santa Fe Trail, 1842

missfolly:

John Stobart - Independence, the Start of the Santa Fe Trail, 1842

missfolly: Joseph Sciuti Prisoners of Castelnuovo after the capitulation of 1799, 1871

missfolly:

Joseph Sciuti
Prisoners of Castelnuovo after the capitulation of 1799, 1871

missfolly: Henri Rousseau Surprise! 1891

missfolly:

Henri Rousseau
Surprise! 1891