#19th century'

[chic-a-gigot]

Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costumes Parisiens, 10 octobre 1835, (3310): Chapeau de pou-de-soie de M.me Hocquet 106 Rue Richelieu; Redingote de reps garnie de chicorée. - Bonnet de tulle; Redingote de mousseline garnie de noeuds de ruban de M.me Oudot-Manoury. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Two women shake hands. Left: hat of 'pou-de-soie' by Hocquet. Redingote of 'reps' garnished with 'chicorée'. Right: cap of tulle. Redingote of mousseline decorated with ribbon bows by Mme Oudot-Manoury. The print is part of the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Modes, Paris, 1797-1839.

[steampunktendencies]

Old Pencil Sharpener in Action

[paintingispoetry]

Albert Aublet, "Selene", 1880

[nemfrog]

Dancing bugs. The population of an old pear-tree. 1870. Book cover.

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[enchantedbook]

'The Silent Voice' by Gerald Moira, c. 1893.

[zegalba]

Now abandoned, La Petite Centure is a 19th century railway that loops over 30km around Paris

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Album of seaweed specimens, in scallop shell binding.

Place of origin: Great Britain

Date: mid-19th century

[oldpaintings]

Harald Oskar Sohlberg (Norwegian, 1869--1935)

[die-rosastrasse]

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[the-evil-clergyman]

Resting by Wojciech Gerson (1895)

[steampunktendencies]

Stair dust corners are flexible, triangular pieces made of brass or nickel designed to prevent dust from gathering in the corners of stairs. They were introduced in the late 19th century to make sweeping easier.

[notbecauseofvictories]

I don't know how strictly accurate this is, but one of the things I find shocking about watching historical dramas is how many people there are around all the time---according to Madame de... (1953) a well-off French household in the Belle Epoque maintains a workforce of at least 3, and the glittering opera has staff just to open doors. According to Shogun (2024) you can expect a deep bench just to mind your household, and again, people who exist to open doors.

Could people....not open doors in the past? Were doors tricky, before the standardization of hinges? Because otherwise, the wealthy used to pay a whole bunch of people to do it for them in multiple contexts, and I find myself baffled.

[nemfrog]

The moth and the flame. Divine emblems. 1867.

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[enchantedbook]

'Foxes Meeting at Oji' by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857