Two portraits of a French dancer Cléo de Mérode
Painting by Giovanni Boldini, 1901
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"Jane Morris, posed by [Dante Gabriel] Rossetti"
Photographed by John R. Parsons, 1865, London.
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Two women making a snow lady (1892) from: The Strand magazine
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Victorian Friends
Unfortunately these two gentlemen who had their picture taken in 1870s Carmarthen, Wales are not identified. I wonder what their relationship and story is. And wish James Fitzjames and John Barrow could've gotten their picture taken like this.
Carte de visite from my collection:
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Carte de visite of a woman with ultra long hair taken by Charles Eisenmann, best known for his portraits of Victorian circus & sideshow performers.
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three cards from the visitors, pen & white gel pen on photocopy
one of my favorite mixed media pastimes, as a collector of cartes de visite - no actual CDVs were harmed here, drawing on a copy is easier anyway & i love the textures it adds. you can get the whole mini-zine (six images altogether) here for free or donation.
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Photograph of a Japanese man, 19th century, identified as Oda Nobuyoshi and said to be a dentist.
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More reversing Victorian-era photo retouching for size.... Original photo at left; I’m not sure about this one, but the curve under her bust is just a tad too unnatural-looking, both in overall shape (and bodice details/placement) and in the cleanness of the edges in the photo. Right is my guess as to what her actual shape was according to the underbust shadow and the placement of the center of the bodice.
(Unidentified woman, photograph by Oswald Welti (1843-1932), Montreux/Lausanne, Switzerland, 1880s. Collection of Kenna Libes, #23.25. Do not repost without credit.)
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Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the future Princess of Wales and Queen of the United Kingdom in a plaid dress, 1862.
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"Group of young women performing atmospheric pressure experiments while studying science in school, Washington, D.C."
Photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1899.
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