#linley sambourne

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Wat?   Sambourne House

Waar?   Sambourne House, Londen

Wanneer?   7 januari 2023

In navolging van Frederic Leighton lieten verschillende kunstenaars rond Holland Huis studiohuizen bouwen. Echter niet iedereen kon zich zo’n luxe optrek veroorloven. Linley Sambourne (1844-1910) was illustrator en cartoonist voor het satirische tijdschrift Punch. Hij verdiende niet genoeg voor een huis zoals dat van Leighton, maar dat weerhield hem er niet van zijn eigen kunstpaleisje te creëren. Hij kocht in 1874 een rijtjeshuis (18 Stafford Terrace). Linley decoreerde het huis van onder tot boven. Na de dood van Sambourne en zijn vrouw zorgden de kinderen en later hun kleindochter ervoor dat het huis in de staat waarin het was grotendeels werd behouden. Als rasverzamelaar heb ik heel wat spullen in huis, maar als mijn woning zo vol zou zijn als die van de Sambournetjes dan ging ik acuut te rade bij opruimgoeroe Marie Kondo. Maar aangezien mijn huis niet zo vol is en ik niet op 18 Stafford Terrace hoef te wonen, geniet ik van alles wat er hier te zien is. Sambourne House is een mooie tegenhanger voor het luxe Leighton House.

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Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1910), 'The Race of Death', ''Punch'', June 3, 1903

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I'm very much in the "anti-car culture" camp and find cars to be one of the worst aspects of living in any city (especially in Philly in the summer). It seems early cartoonists often depicted cars as machines of death around their general introduction into our shared public spaces. (I've amassed a rather large collection of these anti-car cartoons, this one from Punch being just one example.) Here's some car facts from a recent study from the Journal of Transport Geography: 1) 1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility with 1,670,000 deaths per year 2) Cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people since their invention

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Edward Linley, after Sambourne - Illustration for 'The Water-Babies' by Charles Kingsley.

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A maid reading while walking on Cromwell Road, London (1906) by Edward Linley Sambourne

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That moment when you're watching a movie but you can't pay attention because they also used the same set for Maurice

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Photograph by Edward Linley Sambourne

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Linley Sambourne's cartoon Man Is But a Worm, about Charles Darwin, was published in Punch's Almanack (December 1881)

La viñeta de Linley Sambourne El hombre no es más que un gusano, sobre Charles Darwin, fue publicada en el Almanaque de Punch (diciembre de 1881)

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🔸 street photo of fashionable lady taken in Earls Court Road in London circa 1905 by Edward Linley Sambourne #victorianchaps #london🇬🇧 #edwardian #fashion #beauty #goodolddays #nostalgia #oldphoto #1900s #vintage #retro #edwardlinleysambourne #history #pastlives #streetscene https://www.instagram.com/p/CoCVXv8gY_x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Caricature of Gustave Eiffel

(Alexandre) Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) French civil engineer. Cartoon by Edward Linley Sambourne in the Punch's Fancy Portraits series from "Punch" (London, 29 June 1889) celebrating the building of the Eiffel Tower and the opening of the Exposition Universelle in Paris, France, on 6 May 1889. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Hetty Pettigrew photographed by Edward Linley Sambourne in 1891.

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I’ve been looking at photos and paintings of Ancient Greek and Roman dresses for weeks, preparing to make several chitons and accessories for my SWFF persona, and I came across this photo from Edward Linley Sambourne, taken in 1896. I didn’t find her name but I do find her entirely fascinating. Big “fuck you” energy. She looks a little deranged; wild hair, clothes disheveled, a touch of menace, and utter languid comfort in her pose. She looks like she’d kick your ass and she knows all the best dirty limericks too. Whoever you are lady; I like your swagger.

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lon674 by Michael Gross Via Flickr: A visit to Sambourne house, Kensington, London. I found out about it when visiting nearby Leighton House (home to the painter Frederic Leighton), in 2022, as the two are managed as a pair. Wouldn't have known about the Sambourne person otherwise, who was a Victorian photographer and illustrator (Linley Sambourne, 1844 - 1910). Loving all the interiors in both places.

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ARCHITECTURE PROMPT DAY FIVE

[Image ID: An instagram square with a grey concrete background and green creeping vines. The text says “FIVE” in black font, in the centre of the image. /.End ID]

[Image text: Leighton House - Sambourne House. Philip writes: Twilight at the Sambournes: Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne bought No. 18, Stafford Terrace, Kensington in 1874, and lived there with wife Marion and children Maud and Roy until his death in 1910. The house stayed in the family; it was Roy���s home for his entire life, and eventually passed to Maud’s daughter Anne Rosse, who retained it until the late 1970s. The house was subsequently transferred to the GLC, and then RBKC, and has been open to the public as a museum since that time. Extraordinarily, the house was decorated and furnished by Linley and Marian in the 1870s, and stayed fundamentally unchanged for the next century and a half. It survived the war largely unscathed, and is one of London’s finest period interiors, because it is so complete, and so original. I have recently started volunteering with the visitor experience team at Sambourne House, and it’s a privilege to invite people to step back into the aesthetic era. The house feels as though the family has just stepped out, perhaps to dine with Rider Haggard, Oscar Wilde or John Tenniel; and as the light changes through the day, the rooms change as well. Dusk falls, and while I waited for one of the maids to light the fires, draw the heavy velvet curtains and bring me a whisky and soda, I set up my “detective camera” and grabbed a few snapshots for the album. If you haven’t called on the Sambournes, you really should. Find at more at @leightonsambournemuseums - Key Emoji, Clock Emoji. /.End ID]

[Image ID: Ten photographs on a grey concrete background. The photographs show the inside of a dated house, turned museum. Each photo shows a different perspective of different rooms inside the house and every room is filled with all manner of antiques these include; decorative plates, ornate vases, analogue freestanding clocks, many many photos on the walls, fancy fireplaces, lots of antique furniture including many tables and chairs, a settee, and a metal framed bed. One photo shows a patterned tiled floor in the hallway. /.End ID]

[Image text: Writing Prompt - Come Inside: No! It can't be over already. Thankfully, Philip posts new, brilliant images and captions of London's architecture daily. I think you will continue to find much inspiration there. Thank you @philip.downer. For our final prompt, we are going inside. Architecture leads us in, and it's the paraphernalia of life that perhaps tells even more stories. Look at the way the stuff in this house has been preserved. How much does it tell us about Linley and Marion? SO, Choose an object or an area in the house and tell it's story. We hope you have enjoyed this week and that you've put pen to paper a few times. /.End ID]

[Image text: Artist Prompt - Come Inside: Wow, that’s a lot of subject material! I’d love to go and visit Sambourne House and just spend the whole afternoon combing through every inch of the place and nosying through all the photos and furniture, I’m sure I could do it ten times and still find something new each time. What would it be like to be a little Borrower living in those walls? Have a look through these images and choose something that really stands out to you, an object, the tiling, whatever calls out to you from your screen and recreate it in your own style. And now ends our week of prompts. We hope you’ve enjoyed the imagery and discovered something new, be that a technique, a subject, or information (perhaps you’ll submit it for Scribbles’ next magazine DISCOVERY). Don’t forget to show Philip’s instagram some love @philip.downer. /.End ID]

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Edward Linley, after Sambourne - 'The Octopus of Romance and Reality'. Punch cartoon.

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