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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.

books0977: Titiana. Thomas Francis Dicksee (English, 1819-1895). In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titiana is the queen of the fairies. Shakespeare took the name “Titania” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans. Titania is a very proud and forceful creature. The marital quarrel she and Oberon are engaged in over which of them should have the keeping of an Indian changeling boy is the engine that drives the mix ups and confusion of the other characters in the play.

books0977:

Titiana. Thomas Francis Dicksee (English, 1819-1895).

In Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titiana is the queen of the fairies. Shakespeare took the name “Titania” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans.

Titania is a very proud and forceful creature. The marital quarrel she and Oberon are engaged in over which of them should have the keeping of an Indian changeling boy is the engine that drives the mix ups and confusion of the other characters in the play.

snowce: Thomas Francis Dicksee, Juliet (Note: Dicksee, British, 1819-1895, was a portrait, historical and genre painter with many subjects from Shakespeare. This completely engaging oil on canvas portrait of Juliet was inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.   The painting is housed in the Sunderland Art Gallery in Sunderland, England. — A Thousand Winds)

snowce:

Thomas Francis Dicksee, Juliet

(Note: Dicksee, British, 1819-1895, was a portrait, historical and genre painter with many subjects from Shakespeare. This completely engaging oil on canvas portrait of Juliet was inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet.

  The painting is housed in the Sunderland Art Gallery in Sunderland, England. — A Thousand Winds)

(Source: 23silence, via faith-and-fatherland)