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.
“The Roads to Heaven and Hell … Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Mat. II, 28 …”
Did anyone else notice:
a) That lady with her leg raised? Such risque behavior! I can see an ankle *crosses self*
b) “We only live once”— I guess this is the 19th century version of YOLO, eh
The Roads to Heaven and Hell, religious tract, ca. 1896. Bilingual text in English and German. Color lithograph, R.J. Stock, Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1896.
Self-portrait - Mucha posing with a silk hat in the studio, Rue du Val de Grâce, Paris (c.1896)
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Lady of the snows (1896)
by George Henry Boughton.
“Jeune femme en tenue de soirée assise près d’un bouquet d’hortensias” (1896) by Jules Louis Machard (1839-1900).
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Sainte Cécile. Photographer Baron Adolph de Meyer. Photogravure. Troisième Exposition d’Art Photographique (1896).
This early religious study portrait by Baron de Meyer depicts a young woman (with halo etched in plate) playing a musical instrument, possibly a clavicytherium (upright harpsichord). The title makes reference to Saint Cécile, who was the patron saint of music and singers.
