Gods and Foolish Grandeur
Life And The Arts...From A Retrograde Perspective
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
From my collection - Cartes de visite
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Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and her husband, Prince Louis, later Grand Duke of Hesse. (Actua...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
The Waagepetersen Family, by Wilhelm Bendz, 1830
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Wilhelm Bendz - only two years away from his premature death - has portrayed the merchant Waagepetersen and his wife Albertine with the...
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Girl With a Peacock Feather Fan, by George Frederic Watts, circa 1860s
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*** George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817, London – 1 July 1904, Compton, Surrey ), popular English Victorian painter and (l...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
L'Éducation d'Achille par le centaure Chiron, by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1782
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"The Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron" In Greek mythology, Chiron was held to be the premier centaur - something...
Sunday, June 14, 2015
From my collection - Imperial/royal cousins, imperial/royal sailor suits
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The iconic sailor suit was the uniform - both casual and dress - for little boys beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century and ...
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