Posts tagged victorian
More variations on Shakespeare’s Ariel. Even a female version!
On top: Henry Singleton 1819 / left: Ariel in An Illustrated Shakespeare Birthday Book 1883, right: by Henry Fuseli, c. 1800-10 / Helen Jacobs (1888-1970) / Louis Rhead, early 20th century / George Cruikshank (1792-1878) / Tobacco Advertising?
Joseph Severn’s “Ariel Riding On a Bat” (1830) portrays Ariel from William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. It was certainly the inspiration for these antique cameos.
Clockwise from top left (collage by Collectors Items): V&A / Rowan and Rowan / Jewels Collecting Dust / Antique Cameos / painting: Flickr: RasMarley
Everything that creeps: Fine Jewellery brooches from Bentley & Skinner, antique and new. (Collage by Collector’s Items)
Starting at 12 o’clock, continuing clockwise: Victorian gold fly (£1,650.00, sold) / Late nineteenth century bee (£4,250.00, sold) / Enamel and diamond wasp (new & in stock for £5,950.00) / Victorian garnet and diamond beetle (in stock, £3,600.00) / Late victorian fire opal and diamond beetle (£4,250.00, sold) / Late victorian pearl and diamond spider (£4,950.00, sold) / Late victorian garnet and diamond bee (£12,750.00, sold) / Nineteenth century tigers eye and diamond bee (£4,650.00, sold) / center: Edwardian Essex crystal bumble-bee (in stock, £4,250.00)
Large Antique English Butterfly, Moth, Insect, Bird Diorama Circa 1850’s “Mint” $2,800. (Sold) Found on Lorie Price Bischoff: Soulful Adornments Gallery: Tribute to Victorian Ornithological , Entomological & Taxidermy
Street style 1906: Edward Linley Sambourne’s fashion blog. That woman’s posture - her reading while walking - looks so contemporary, she could as well be staring at her smartphone…
About Edward Linley Sambourne, who was a cartoonist and illustrator. More of Sambourne’s pictures on The Library Time Machine.
Once more from Bell and Bird.
Victorian Niello Love Knot Bangle (sold) and Georgian Garnet Locket Ring ($1,750.00).
Ripper Street’s episode#2 starts with the murder of a toy maker in 1889. The very first scene features one of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre’s miniatures! I’ve written about them before.
More of those beautiful Dolce & Gabbana Fall 2012 shoes, just for the sake of it. (Photos from Style.com)
In Brooklyn, a Strict Victorian Brownstone - On Location, on NYTimes.com. Slide Show. (Photos by Trevor Tondro for NYTimes).
I have never quite understood collectors of antique postcards, they’ve always seemed a little odd to me. But since I found the About Postcards page I can see how you can become crazy over all these beautiful items…Some of the nicest illustrators I could find are Ethel Parkinson (picture 1 from eBay) / Thomas Maybank (2 from eBay) / Millicent Sowerby (3 from eBay) / Willebeek Le Mair (4 from eBay) / Rie Cramer / Hilda Miller / Sybil Barham / and of course Ida Outhwaite
Dutchies - An Edwardian Postcard Craze
Update: German & Austrian artists: Josefine Allmayer / Pauli Ebner / Liesel Lauterborn / Elsa Beskow / Gertrud Caspari
“John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a “remarkable and imaginative painter” known for his city night-scenes and landscapes. (Wikipedia)”
I discovered this artist via an article on the Telegraph: £100 Victorian oil painting sells for £185,000 at auction. Et voilà: he also painted spirits/fairies and is therefore regarded as an influence (amongst many others) on Disney.
(Photos from WikiPaintings.org and Wikipedia)
One of the most awesome auctions on ebay I have ever won - a shadowbox, supposedly from around 1860-1880. Can’t wait to get it…
One of the weirdest and most beautiful pieces of that kind of jewelry I have ever seen. Usually, jewelry with real insects/beetles from that era (The Egyptian Revival) looks more like this. Now on ebay. Update: Sold for $279,99.
