oldbookillustrations:

Help! pussy-pussy
That foxy hussy
Has got me tight
With all her might.

E. W. Mitchell, from Cossack fairy tales and folk-tales, selected, edited and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain, London, 1894.

(Source: archive.org)

books0977:

To crown (Farewell) or Goodbye, Papa (1894). Vladimir Makovsky (Russian, 1846-1920).

Makovsky has captured a poignant moment in this young bride’s life. It’s difficult to read her expression. It is clear that she will be very much missed by her Papa, and his look of love is beautifully captured here. The bride’s white bridal gown and veil shimmer with reflected light, and the flowers in her hair, and the mistletoe corsage are carefully painted.

dipot:

Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt holding flowers, from the opening scene of Gismonda, a Greek melodrama in four acts by Victorien Sardou that premiered in 1894 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris.

Studio of Georges Clairin, unsigned, oil on lithographic image on tooled gilt leather mounted to stretcher bars, 34”×23”.

(Source: 23silence)

pre-raphaelisme:

The Magic Crystal by Frank Dicksee, 1894.

oldbookillustrations:

Ay, we will work like the worm at the heart of a fruit.

Richard Caton Woodville, from Cleopatra, by Henry Rider Haggard, London, 1894.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

And we went forth.

Richard Caton Woodville, from Cleopatra, by Henry Rider Haggard, London, 1894.

(Source: archive.org)

1894 Beecham’s Pill advertisement starring Sherlock Holmes (HT Digital Victorianist)

sisterwolf:

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, 1894 (c) Perkins School for the Blind Archive.

books0977:

Barine (c1894). Sir Edward John Poynter (British, Academic, 1836-1919). Oil on canvas.

Horace’s Faithless Barine is about a calculating temptress who breaks the heart of every man she meets, leaving only “a train of slaves [which] grows every day.”

Poynter ingeniously utilizes subtle symbolism. The maiden is crowned by red roses, a traditional representation of passion, as she gently tears a love letter in two. The notion of “undying devotion” has fallen upon deaf ears as Barine coldly dismisses the token of love with what appears to be the beginnings of a grin upon her face. 

oldrags:

Plate from Die Modenwelt (“The Fashion World”), 1st of September 1894

Submitted to oldrags by the wonderful 1901-a-space-odyssey