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Unidentified woman breastfeeding a baby, ca. 1860. Schlesinger Library / Flickr You know the daguerrotypes. Stiff scenes of Victorian families in too much clothing, expressing about as much enthusiasm for one another as one would have for a lamppost. That's why we did a double – no, triple – take
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1. Gustave Eiffel's Swiss Villa Getaway Villa Claire, named after his daughter, was Gustave Eiffel's preferred place of rest when he wasn't building giant iron towers or attempting to engineer the Panama Canal. In Vevey, Switzerland. From a collection at Musée D'Orsay, prints for sal
Angel 1872 Today I'm starting my first posting for a series of weekend posts dedicated to the masters of photography. I majored in Art History at university and always loved learning about the people who made photography an art. Julia Margaret Cameron, an English woman born in India, received a camera as a gift and began her career at the age of 48. She was influenced by Renaissance artists such as Raphael and Michaelangelo. I can really see this influence in the portrait of an "Angel" above which is from 1872. Julia took portraits of her friends and family and famous people of her day such as the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and the painter George Frederick Watts. She mostly worked out of her home on the Isle of Wight in England. Gardener's Daughter 1872 Hattie Campbell (a neighbour, year unknown) Julia's pictures have an other-wordly feel to them that was perfectly in tune with the notions of Pre-Raphaelite beauty of the late 1800s. And I love to see a woman photographer who was able to hold her own amongst the men at the birth of photography.
Marie Doro was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era. She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty. (source)
Andrew Lownie says he has spent £250,000 of his own money trying to see the private diaries of Lord Mountbatten, written from 1918 until 1979, when he was killed by the IRA.
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Season two of Netflix's Bridgerton airs March 25. Here's everything you need to know about new character Edwina Sharma.
The dag is a 16th plate, this implies a size of 1.375 x 1.625 inches (3.5 x 4 cm). This is a very small plate, but still note the incredible detail when you zoom in!
