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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.

"Dr. Vilmar denounces, in strong terms, the self-conceit so characteristic of modern taste and modern criticism, which consigns so much of the past, and especially in the earlier history of nations, to oblivion, as necessarily unworthy of study."

— from The Eclectic Magazine, Nov. 1848 (HT Perplexed with Narrow Passages)
wycherley: Carlo Bossoli (1815-1884), A Bustling Market on the Piazza Navona (detail), 1848

wycherley:

Carlo Bossoli (1815-1884), A Bustling Market on the Piazza Navona (detail), 1848

thestuartkings:  Anatomy and Royalty, 17th century English anatomist William Harvey (1578-1657) dissecting a deer’s head in front of King Charles I (1600-1649). Harvey is famous for his discovery that the blood and heart form part of a complete systemic circulatory system, something that had not been fully realised before. He published his findings in 1628 in ‘De Motu Cordis’ (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood). The book included a dedication to King Charles I. This painting, dating from 1848, is by the painter Robert Hannah. The original is held at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

thestuartkings:

 Anatomy and Royalty, 17th century

English anatomist William Harvey (1578-1657) dissecting a deer’s head in front of King Charles I (1600-1649). Harvey is famous for his discovery that the blood and heart form part of a complete systemic circulatory system, something that had not been fully realised before. He published his findings in 1628 in ‘De Motu Cordis’ (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood). The book included a dedication to King Charles I. This painting, dating from 1848, is by the painter Robert Hannah. The original is held at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

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legrandcirque: Gustave Le Gray, Portrait of Henri Le Secq, 1848. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Le_Secq

legrandcirque:

Gustave Le Gray, Portrait of Henri Le Secq, 1848.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Le_Secq

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elpasajero: Baudelaire by Gustave Courbet, 1848 via upload.wikimedia.org From Wikipedia: Along with Poe, Baudelaire named the arch-reactionary Joseph de Maistre as his maître à penser and adopted increasingly aristocratic views. In his journals, he wrote “There is no form of rational and assured government save an aristocracy. A monarchy or a republic, based upon democracy, are equally absurd and feeble. The immense nausea of advertisements. There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.”

elpasajero:

Baudelaire by Gustave Courbet, 1848

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From Wikipedia:

Along with Poe, Baudelaire named the arch-reactionary Joseph de Maistre as his maître à penser and adopted increasingly aristocratic views. In his journals, he wrote “There is no form of rational and assured government save an aristocracy. A monarchy or a republic, based upon democracy, are equally absurd and feeble. The immense nausea of advertisements. There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.”

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1848, [gentleman posed with carpentry tools] via the J. Paul Getty Museum

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1848, [gentleman posed with carpentry tools]

via the J. Paul Getty Museum