My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

oldenglandimages:

From an original Victorian print dated March 22, 1884. Alfred Lord Tennyson, the poet laureate, in his study on the Isle of Wight. From a series of prints entitled ‘Celebrities of the day’.

Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire in 1809. He began writing as a child and published some of his best-known poems when he was only twenty. TS Eliot called him “the great master of melancholia”. He was made a peer in 1884 and died in 1892.

amyjanebexplainsall:

Gentleman are requested not to commit any nuisance against this wall. #ghostsign Oglander Tavern 1884 on Flickr.

treselegant:

“Vera looked straight before her, and took no notice of the Count’s polite speeches.”

Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1884.

ponderful:

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Difficult Lesson, 1884

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treselegant:

Ida and Ethel (1884)

by James Sant.

vcrfl:

Alfred Stevens: Au Havre, 1884.
Oil on canvas, 92 × 73 cm.

treselegant:

“Far from the gay cities and the ways of men.”

Cassell’s Family Magazine, 1884.

welovepaintings:

Herbert Schmalz
Great Britain 1856-1935
Too Late c.1884-86
oil on canvas
156.4 x 255.0 cm

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Too Late is set against the aftermath of the fall of a Roman stronghold to Christianised barbarians.
A yound barbarian chieftain returns from battle; he is too late, however, to be welcomed by his betrothed, who lies dead surrounded by mourners. The room is filled with Christian and barbarian symbols. Death is represented by the irises and by the extinguished flame on one side of the altar, while the promise of eventual reunion is symbolised by the two stars high in the background.

CultureVictoria

thorsteinulf:

Herbert Gustave Schmalz - Queen of the May (1884)

blastedheath:

Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, 1853-1918), Der Zornige Krieger [The Angry Warrior], 1884. Oil on canvas, 50 x 34.5 cm.

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