portrait-photo

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.

fleurdulys: Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonores - Karl Ferdinand Sohn 1839

fleurdulys:

Torquato Tasso and the Two Leonores - Karl Ferdinand Sohn

1839

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oldrags: Sitting Girl in a White Satin Gown by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1839, Wienmuseum

oldrags:

Sitting Girl in a White Satin Gown by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1839, Wienmuseum

treselegant:  ’THE POOR LITTLE GIRL’. Victoria and Gertrude encounter the poor, in ‘Conversations Familières, Or, Conversational Lessons: For the Use of Young Ladies’ 1839.

treselegant:

 ’THE POOR LITTLE GIRL’.

Victoria and Gertrude encounter the poor,

in ‘Conversations Familières, Or, Conversational Lessons: For the Use of Young Ladies’ 1839.

books0977: Autoritratto (1839). Elisa Counis (Italian, 1812-1847). Included in the exhibition, AUTORITRATTE, ”Artiste di capriccioso e destrissimo ingegno.” Galleria degli Uffizi. Sala delle Reali Poste. FIRENZE. 17 dicembre 2010 – 30 gennaio 2011.  Aimed to raise awareness of the women’s section of the rich collection of self-portraits preserved in the Uffizi. It is significant that, of the 1,700 works that make up this heritage, only 7% were made by women, and certainly not for a lack of style and skill.

books0977:

Autoritratto (1839). Elisa Counis (Italian, 1812-1847).

Included in the exhibition, AUTORITRATTE, ”Artiste di capriccioso e destrissimo ingegno.” Galleria degli Uffizi. Sala delle Reali Poste. FIRENZE. 17 dicembre 2010 – 30 gennaio 2011. 

Aimed to raise awareness of the women’s section of the rich collection of self-portraits preserved in the Uffizi. It is significant that, of the 1,700 works that make up this heritage, only 7% were made by women, and certainly not for a lack of style and skill.

treselegant:  ’Tea’ How to converse on the topic of afternoon tea from ‘Conversations Familières, Or,Conversational Lessons: For the Use of Young Ladies.’ 1839.  Learning French the Victorian Way.

treselegant:

 ’Tea’

How to converse on the topic of afternoon tea from ‘Conversations Familières, Or,Conversational Lessons: For the Use of Young Ladies.’

1839. 

Learning French the Victorian Way.

propagandery: I am definitely going to start doing this. finally a good reason to buy classified ads. my-ear-trumpet:thefuzzydave: Scoundrel! via gloriousmadness (via whitneygifford)

propagandery:

I am definitely going to start doing this. finally a good reason to buy classified ads.

my-ear-trumpet:thefuzzydave:

Scoundrel!

via gloriousmadness

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