My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

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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.

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treselegant:

Porträt der Lady Meux
by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

“Portrait of Lady Meux is a name given to several full-length portraits by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.”
“Whistler painted a second portrait of Lady Meux in 1881 called Harmony in Pink and Grey (Portrait of Lady Meux) which belongs to the Frick Collection in New York City. This full-length portrait shows the subject on stage standing before a pinkish-grey curtain, in an obvious allusion to her alleged stage career. She wears a light grey dress trimmed in pink satin. The butterfly emblem that Whistler used as a signature is on the right side of the painting a little below the middle. Whistler assigned many of his paintings titles with terms like “arrangement” and “harmony”, which may be interpreted as either musical or abstract.”

treselegant:

Porträt der Lady Meux

by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

“Portrait of Lady Meux is a name given to several full-length portraits by James Abbott McNeill Whistler.”

“Whistler painted a second portrait of Lady Meux in 1881 called Harmony in Pink and Grey (Portrait of Lady Meux) which belongs to the Frick Collection in New York City. This full-length portrait shows the subject on stage standing before a pinkish-grey curtain, in an obvious allusion to her alleged stage career. She wears a light grey dress trimmed in pink satin. The butterfly emblem that Whistler used as a signature is on the right side of the painting a little below the middle. Whistler assigned many of his paintings titles with terms like “arrangement” and “harmony”, which may be interpreted as either musical or abstract.”

  • July 03, 2012
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  • Whistler
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  • Harmony in Pink and Grey
  • 1881
victoriasrustyknickers:

Portrait of Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler by William Merritt Chase - 1885 via Wikipedia

victoriasrustyknickers:

Portrait of Impressionist James Abbott McNeill Whistler by William Merritt Chase - 1885 via Wikipedia

  • September 20, 2011
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  • 19th century
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