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 Allegorical Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I with Father Time at her right and Death looking over her left shoulder. Two cherubs are removing the weighty crown from her tired head.
Unknown artist, circa 1620.
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The sepulchre of St. Cornelius.
From Roma sotterranea, or An account of the Roman catacombs, by James Spencer Northcote, London, 1879.
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Gallery in the cemetery of Praetextatus.
From Roma sotterranea, or An account of the Roman catacombs, by James Spencer Northcote, London, 1879.
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Cemetery of Callixtus: De Rossi’s restauration of the papal crypt.
From Roma sotterranea, or An account of the Roman catacombs, by James Spencer Northcote, London, 1879.
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April 27th, 1910
