#1859

[nemfrog]

"Human liver in which the portal vein had been injected white." The physiological anatomy and physiology of man. 1859.

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Dinner Dress

Madame Elise (London, England)

1855-1859

The MET (Accession Number: C.I.69.14.9a, b)

[cosmonautroger]

Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, Metamorphose, 1859

[earlypalaeoart]

Plate from Kosmos für die Jugend: Blicke in die Schöpfung der Welt und in die Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit vom Anhang bis zur Gegenwert by Philipp Körber (1859)

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10134056?page=,1

[ltwilliammowett]

The “Eastern Monarch” ablaze in Spithead, 3rd June 1859, by Arthur Wellington Fowles (1815-1883)

Built at Dundee in 1856, the full-rigged “Eastern Monarch”, 1,844 tons, was owned by Somes Brothers of London and traded regularly between Dundee and India. Early in 1859, as she was loading cargo at Karachi, she was chartered by the Indian government to bring home a large contingent of sick and wounded troops in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny, some of whom were accompanied by their wives and children. After a cramped but otherwise uneventful voyage, “Eastern Monarch” arrived at Spithead in the early hours of 3rd June [1859] with almost 500 people aboard including 352 invalid soldiers, 30 women and 53 children. At 2.30am., about an hour after the vessel had dropped anchor, a loud explosion was heard closely followed by billowing smoke and flame. With the ship’s ports all open for ventilation, the initial fire spread rapidly; despite the valiant efforts of the officers and crew however, the blaze could not be brought under control and the ship was soon ablaze from stem to stern.

Thanks to perfect discipline amongst the troops, there was no panic and those aboard were ferried ashore by two sailing barges, “Providence “ and “Petrel”, which came alongside, as did boats from H.M. ships “Falcon” and “Flying Fish”, both anchored nearby. The prompt actions of the rescue craft saved all but eight persons but the ship herself was totally destroyed, it was believed, by the spontaneous combustion of a quantity of saltpetre amongst her cargo.

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[chic-a-gigot]

Les Modes Parisiennes, v. 40, plate 99, September 1859. Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library

[whencyclopedia]

Edouard Manet

Edouard Manet (1832-1883) was a French modernist painter whose work is celebrated for its candid realism. Works like Olympia, an entirely modern nude, broke the artistic convention that great art should not concern itself with contemporary life. By capturing Parisian café society, Manet inspired later artists to break entirely free from any artistic convention they wished.

Early Life

Born in Paris on 23 January 1832, Manet's family was a wealthy one of lawyers, civil servants, and landowners. Manet's father, Auguste, was a high court judge while his mother, Eugénie Désirée Fournier, also had high connections. Both parents enjoyed an independent income from wealth inherited from their own parents. Edouard's uncle, Edmond Fournier, encouraged an interest in art in the young boy for whom he made sketches and took to Parisian galleries. Manet went through his school years without any apparent distinction despite being enrolled in the prestigious Collège Rollin in Paris. There he started a life-long friendship with the journalist Antonin Proust (1832-1905).

An attempt to join the French Navy met stormy waters when he failed the entrance exams in 1848. Undeterred, Manet joined as a cadet and promptly found himself in Rio de Janeiro in time to catch its famous Carnival. Manet used the long sea voyage well, sketching the sea and his fellow mariners.

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[nemfrog]

A crocodile in Egypt. Peter Parley's Kaleidoscope or Parlor Pleasure Book. 1859.

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[yuzukihr]

I have so many ideas for 1859 fics and.... I can't talk to anyone about it. I'm forever cursed to love crack ships seriously 😔

[earlypalaeoart]

'Die Urwelt' [The Primeval World] from Kosmos für die Jugend: Blicke in die Schöpfung der Welt und in die Kulturgeschichte der Menschheit vom Anhang bis zur Gegenwert by Philipp Körber (1859)

https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10134056?page=,1 [the full text of the book is here but this picture is only shown folded up]

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Sounds were heard that could not be accounted for; they were made by the evil spirits not yet banished from the desert places of which they had so long held possession. Sights, inexplicable and mysterious, were dimly seen - Satan, in some shape, seeking whom he might devour. And at the beginning of the long winter season, such whispered tales, such old temptations and haunting, and devilish terrors, were supposed to be peculiarly rife. Salem was, as it were, snowed up, and left to prey upon itself. 

Elizabeth Gaskell, Lois the Witch

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Gold silk morning dress, 1859-1860, American.

Met Museum.