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.
Das Vergissmeinnicht (1886). Gabriel Schachinger (German, 1850–1913). Oil on canvas.
Schachinger primarily painted portraits, floral still lifes, and genre paintings . For the session hall of the Bavarian Reichsrat chamber, he portrayed the Bavarian kings Max II and Louis II . His most famous painting depicts King Louis in the garb of the Grand Master of the Order of St. George and hangs in the Museum of Herrenchiemsee .
