#C19th

[heracliteanfire]

Creeping Baby Doll Patent Model

(via Smithsonian Institution)

#Creepy Baby Patent Doll Model #patent #doll #1870s #C19th #CC0 #George Pemberton Clarke

[cambsantiques]

c19th walnut ladies travelling case with fitted interior and bottles. Hidden jewellery draw. £140 #cambsantiquescentre #ladiestravellingcase #c19th #antiquecosmeticbox #antiquebox https://www.instagram.com/p/CeDzC6tI1tf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#cambsantiquescentre #ladiestravellingcase #c19th #antiquecosmeticbox #antiquebox

[cparti-mkiki]

outrageous amounts of colonial & industrial money really produced some of the gaudiest monuments known to man 19th century what the fuck is this

#it's gigantic too like #looking at c19th creations taking inspiration from any past era: YOU WILL NEVER BE HER #my posts

[athenepromachos]

Bit more detail about these gorgeous murals. They were painted by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in c.1827 and were originally in the Palais des Prinzen Karl and Ordenspalais in Berlin which Schinkel remodelled in the C19th. During the Nazi regime, the building was used for the Ministry of Propaganda. Sadly though, the building was destroyed in 1945 leaving us with only a few photographs. The murals depict the Greek Gods and are really gorgeous 😍 🏛😍

Rare shot of the Interior

Rhea gives Cronus a swaddled stone to eat instead of baby Zeus ☠️

Zeus with his Eagle and Hera with her Peacock 🦅🦚

Hades and Persephone with a fabulous looking Kerberos 🐕💀

The divine twins Artemis and Apollo 🏹🏹

Dionysus and a dancing Maenad 🍇🍇

#rhea #cronus #zeus #hades #persephone #kerberos #artemis #apollo #dionysus #greek gods #greek goddess #ancient greece #ancient greek #greek mythology #olympus #mount olympus #murals #karl friedrich schinkel #berlin #divine twins #💀🦅🦚🏹🍇 #olympians #cthonic gods #hera

[mybeingthere]

Manding chief’s robe, Liberia, C19th or early C20th. Musee du Quai Branly, Paris.

[historyfagjoshi]

I just looked up the rules here— so, you cannot depict ‘sexually explicit acts’ but you can depict ‘historically significant acts which you may find in a mainstream museum and which depicts sex acts’ HAHAHAHA HISTORICAL REAL PERSON FICTION COMMUNITY WE FUCKING WIN! HAHAHAHA— All you have to do is mimic some blasted C19th Academic style and you’re good to start rolling out the porn

#not art #rpf #historical rpf

[tigerballoons]

February!

Frozen in Time - 3⭐

Some of this book was good. The section about the hiking trip down the west coast of King William Land? God I wish I were there. I don't really feel like I can recommend it generally though. The hole in Beattie's theory is so obvious, how on earth has he managed to get it so famous? You're comparing the remains of these C19th European sailors with Inuit remains? OF COURSE they're going to have massively elevated lead levels. Come back when you've got the data for contemporary Europeans who were boring and stayed at home.

(People have it now and, well...)

Dancing with the Lion 2 - 4⭐

I've enjoyed both these books, but it's been such a long time since I last looked at Alexander stuff I'm definitely missing details. You can't write about them where they're kids and not include foreshadowing, right? Meanwhile I'm here going "oh, I recognise that name! ...Who is he?"

Unravelling the Franklin Mystery - 4⭐

Woodman has done an amazing job of going through all the late Victorian accounts and trying to fit the stories together into something coherent. Some of his ideas are tenuous, but he is actually up front about that. Some of the rest of it is disproven now that the ships have been found. The general shape of his argument remains compelling though.

The Galloway Hoard - 5⭐

Yeah so I got this when the hoard was on display in Edinburgh two and a half years a while ago! It's a great introduction, but of course as the research progresses it's getting more and more out of date. The amount we're learning about the textiles in particular! It's got loads of very nice pictures though so you can dream of buying reproductions...

#this month in books #franklin expedition #early medieval history #i some kind of tag for that which doesn't completely expose me 😂

[coldalbion]

Good evening. I have been surprised, it is revealed that my ancestors lived in Lancashire. Long time ago, Norman Conquest and before. Well, from the looks of it, part of the land they held is in N Greater Manchester, but primarily Lancashire. So, my question is- I have their names and it's a list- i know little to nothing about the area, are there any reliable good books or sites, on the history of the area and lore, legends etc? Figured who better to ask than you. Thank you very very much.

Hi, So, Lancashire is quite large as these things go on this island, and up til around the 1800s and industrialisation was sort of a very wild place filled with Catholics, criminals and other such reprobrates who civilised folks rarely dealt with (I am only slightly exaggerating). A Very C19th take is Lancashire folk-lore : illustrative of the superstitious beliefs and practices, local customs and usages of the people of the county Palatine which has a bunch of juicy stuff in (archive.org)

More modern take, with academic contributors, is Lancashire's Sacred Landscape: From Prehistory to the Viking Age edited by Linda Sever, who's an old accquaintance of mine, cool academic, and funky person. Hope that's enough to get you started!

[nonooddo]

ACHEY BREAKY NEWS……

With all the predictability of heartbreak in a country song - the twists and turns of the Oddo attempt to desecrate our neighborhood has taken yet another twist. The April 2 date, that was insisted upon by Oddo, for the Full City Council vote on the wretched development proposal - has been postponed.…!

Apparently it’s now been moved to April 16. Were the City Fathers moved by all the reasonable pleas that this hideous apartment plan was being rushed…? Don’t be an idiot!

After literally HUNDREDS of us write in to the City saying ‘this is going too fast’, after we have meetings at City Hall and tell staff ‘this is too fast’, after we show up en mass at the Planning Commission and say ‘this is too fast’, after we hire a lawyer to plead the case - 'THIS IS TOO FAST' - all of that is ignored. HOWEVER - THE SECOND Oddo says 'jump'- they don’t even bother to ask how high - they just start jumping…!!

Olathe, KS gets a new City Flag

What kind of a Banana Republic is Olathe? I guess we all already know because we are all too used to this type of shit. Witness - earlier today the news came out from the Cedar Creek ‘Developer-owned’ HOA that the Landowners closest to the Oddo development site had finally gotten round to filing a Protest Petition.

(Now a Protest Petition is a technical petition that certain close - within 200 feet - neighboring landowners can file. If it’s filed, on time, after a planning commission decision, it changes the vote requirement to pass a planning measure at the Full Council from Simple Majority to Super Majority.)

WE OWN ENOUGH OF THE QUALIFIED land to have filed that Protest Petition immediately. We - the homeowners. However… as you now know, we don’t control our own assets. We don’t control our HOA. We don’t even control the name of our neighborhood. (Ask the people who have pissed off the developers and because they referred to their own neighborhood the developers are threatening to sue them…! Remarkable True Story in the Olathe Banana Republic!)

The Protest Petition discussions were among developers only…!

So here in our own ‘hood, we don’t have an HOA that is opposing the desecration of the main entrance to Cedar Creek by a rapacious developer. No… our HOA IGNORED the fact of hundreds of letters, thousands of signatures and every actual indication of opposition by all the homeowners - and it kept silent.

The OVERWHELMING response of homeowners - of Opposition to Oddo - has been ABSENT from ‘our’ HOA’s considerations. Instead we were machined against. Talked down to. Told to behave. Patronized and they even tried to bully us with threats, belittling and smears. That was the response of ‘our’ HOA…

However - when the developers that control everything out here in Cedar Creek fell out and then - accidentally did the right thing, albeit for the wrong reasons, and sided with homeowners for ONCE, then THAT is big news…!

Cue a full email blast from the FakeOA, cue some whitewashed details about the ‘discussions’ to fix the Oddo abomination…! Of course WE were not present, this was “Developers Only”. Acting like C19th Colonial Powers carving up the world, we only get told what they want us to know - after the fact. And all we are supposed to do is shout “God Save The Kaiser, or Czar, or King…!” As tho our masters had done something good - for us…! (And not something patently in their own financial interests…!)

So don’t be surprised when this song ends in heartbreak. It is as inevitable as a country tear jerker - and about as synthetic. And the next chapter can be predicted too…

Watch out for Oddo revisions to his shitty plans - something to buy off (or rather buy back) some of that ‘other developer political capital’ he just burned through. Will we be at the table next time…? Hell no, don’t be an idiot…!

…This is still Olathe Kansas…Y’all…!

#Fake HOA #Olathe #cedar creek #kansas #no no oddo #Planning #rotten #Rotten borough #Ignore the people

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Antique c19th Century Pink & Figurative French Enamel Patch Or Snuff Box ebay smallthing

#portrait #enamel #box

[heracliteanfire]

Otters Swimming, Seki Shūkō, Japanese ca. 1890–92

(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

#painting #otters #C19th #1890s #Seki Shūkō #Japan

[ganymedian]

Enamored with those early c19th fashion plates so I’m studying them

#took me for fking ever to find these #art tag #Georgian era #regency era #men’s fashion

[mybeingthere]

Goldfinch | Robert Kime | Fabrics Developed from a C19th English version of a C17th original. Known to Robert Kime from childhood when it covered a bed in the family home.

[dialogue-queered]

Image:Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh,1843 John Richardson Jackson (engraver).

Curatorial Concept: Public figures with ‘queer’ or unconventional tastes, and their impact.

*One artifact on show in the 2022 ‘Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Historical Note: British Foreign Secretary after Waterloo (ie after 1815), Castlereagh played a decisive role in shaping European politics. In the context of post-Napoleonic political liberalisation in France, he and his cabinet colleagues aligned Britain with the French, where necessary, against the authoritarian, so-called ‘Eastern’ powers: Russia, Prussia and Austria. Even more importantly, though, he helped create and enact the so-called ‘Concert of Europe’ - an international security regime whereby the dominant European powers agreed to explicitly negotiate differences and adjustments in their roles through dialogue and collaboration so as to prevent any new attempt at continental hegemony by any one power. The arrangement worked more fully from 1815-1854, and influenced behaviours for the rest of the C19th. At home, Castlereagh was a controversial if shy, handsome, Anglo-Irish politician. Sadly, though, Castlereagh was blackmailed for same-sex contact at a time of high personal stress, even paranoia. He appears to have revealed the blackmail to the then British monarch (who was a personal friend) leading, shortly after, to suicide by pen-knife in August 1822. According to the ‘Queer’ exhibition wall notes, his wife subsequently revealed that, as a matter of desire, Castlereagh preferred men. Castlereagh’s name has enjoyed frequent memorialisation in Australia, especially the state of New South Wales.

#Robert Stewart #castlereagh #lord castlereagh #viscount castlereagh #politics #england #1843 #2022 #gay #queer #lgbtiq #national gallery of victoria #melbourne #australia #1822 #ireland

[tigerballoons]

Navy-style pink gin

Have you also, in your reading of mid C20th novels involving sailor chaps, wondered why they're all drinking pink gins? What is this drink? What does it taste like? Does it not seem a bit... silly? Well, fear not! I have boldly sought the answers to this mystery! First off, it's not the same thing as the pink gin you can buy by the bottle in Tesco. It turns out to be much more interesting.

It turns out to be a cocktail. One that was invented in the early C19th by the Royal Navy, allegedly as a cure for sea sickness. I don't know about you, but I've heard more plausible stories from cats sitting next to smashed plant pots... The gin used, which comes from a specific distillery, is sweeter than the usual kinds and balances the bitters. It isn't terribly complicated, so no special equipment is required.

You will need:

Plymouth gin

Angostura bitters

Water

A snazzy glass

Some ice and lemon

Add a dash of the bitters to the glass. This is what gives the drink its colour, but you don't necessarily want too much of it. Clue's in the name.

Add equal parts gin and water. Top off with ice and lemon to taste.

That's it. I did say it was simple.

Verdict: well, I'd probably call the drink orange, actually. 😂 I was expecting to be the wrong person for this taste test because I hate gin, but this is much nicer than the normal stuff. Very smooth, with a hint of citrus and herbs. It will not be a trial to finish the bottle...

#Ralph has definitely had this #given the dates for both the gin and bitters is not impossible they were drinking it on the Franklin Expedition too #important historical research #the charioteer #the terror #to say nothing of your Nicholas Monsarrat and Nevil Shute characters #the cruel sea #on the beach #etc

[chrismbr]

#tubi The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 1936. Fascinating historical remnant, both of a pre-Sondheim Sweeney Todd legend and a record of popular C19th horror-melodrama, almost pantomime, with the appropriately named Tod Slaughter chewing the scenery with gusto. Pretty bad but also quite enjoyable! https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn_78pwruaB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tubi