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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.

4r7inme: Abbott Handerson Thayer - Stevenson Memorial (1903)

4r7inme:

Abbott Handerson Thayer - Stevenson Memorial (1903)

monstresetmerveilles: Abbott Handerson Thayer, Winged Figure (The Angel), 1918 (Etats-Unis) (via)

monstresetmerveilles:

Abbott Handerson Thayer, Winged Figure (The Angel), 1918 (Etats-Unis)

(via)

welovepaintings: Abbott Handerson Thayer My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer) 1897 Oil on canvas 86 1/4 x 61 1/8 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum ___ Abbott Handerson Thayer, known for his paintings of angels, often used his children as models. Referring to My Children, Thayer wrote of his aim to show “three blissfully exalted children” in a way that “puts beauty to the eye first, and the idea last.” Americanart.si.edu

welovepaintings:

Abbott Handerson Thayer

My Children (Mary, Gerald, and Gladys Thayer)

1897

Oil on canvas

86 1/4 x 61 1/8 in.

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Abbott Handerson Thayer, known for his paintings of angels, often used his children as models. Referring to My Children, Thayer wrote of his aim to show “three blissfully exalted children” in a way that “puts beauty to the eye first, and the idea last.”

Americanart.si.edu

veronicles: (via Abbott Handerson Thayer as a boy, from the Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer family papers - Image Gallery | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

veronicles:

(via Abbott Handerson Thayer as a boy, from the Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer family papers - Image Gallery | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

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