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Item 9, a pair of #19thc books with instructions for various types of needlework, complete with samples. 🗃️🪡

Two books, in stands that hold them open. The one on the right has a tiny knitted stocking. The one on the left has a sampler in red cross stitch, with two alphabets, a row of numbers, and "September 11th 1848".

During the #19thc, relic-seeking was extremely popular, "allowing collectors to feel connected to the past" by finding or taking small, portable fragments of important places and things.

These slippers, embellished with colorful silk braids stitched to a wool substrate in the form of flowers and leaves, were likely made at home between 1830 and 1860 - a labor of love for a family member or a project to beautify the wearer's wardrobe. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O136093... 🗃️🪡 #19thc

A pair of black wool slippers with square toes and a pointed vamp, decorated with red, yellow, white, and blue flowers and vines and leaves in several shades of green. The edges are bound in light blue silk, and the insoles appear to be the same silk, heavily worn.

Footwear Friday: These mid #19thc silk boots are an excellent example of the damage light can cause to textiles - the vivid pink of the side tongue is the color that taffeta used to be all over, a much closer match to the laces and binding. 🗃️🪡 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

A pair of women's silk boots with side lacing. The boots only come up to the ankle, and end in a squared toe. They appear to be a sort of soft coral pink, but the visible tongue (which would have been hidden when the shoes were worn) is almost a shocking pink.

I wonder if this ca. 1870 gown might have been worn as a wedding dress when it was new. Anyway, just marveling over the density of that self-fabric trim on the skirts! All of those strips of silk are bound with bias bands on the top and bottom edges, which represents so much work. 🗃️🪡 #19thc

A black and white photo of a mannequin dressed in a light-colored gown with a pointed waistline, ruffled sleeves, and a train, the skirt heavily embellished with self-fabric trim.

The same gown, shown to be ivory-colored, laid out flat on a surface.

I now released the tabular data of my network analysis (part of my PhD): Experts and Auctioneers in Paris Art Auctions 1852-1862

Description: https://doi.org/10.17613/M60Z96

Chapter in "Das Spektakel der Auktion" (2020): https://books.openedition.org/editionsmsh/23978

Data: https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-22602

#artmarket #arthistory #auction #artauctions #19thcentury #19thc #dataviz #networkanalysis

A large network visualization of two groups of actors

‘Sunlight in the Blue Room’ is an 1891 painting by Anna Ancher, an innovative Danish painter who was a central figure with the Skagen Painters. With its many shades of blue and the sunlight pouring through the window, the painting is one of her most famous works.

Those shadows cast by the foliage in the window are very evocative for me. The painting reminds me of summer afternoons at my grandparents’ farm. Some of my yesterdays.

#summervibes #complementarycolours #danishartist #19thC

As indicated by its full title: Sunshine in the Blue Room. Helga Ancher Knitting in Grandmother's Parlour the painting depicts Anna's daughter Helga knitting in her grandmother's room. With her back to the observer, the child is busy crocheting. Despite its everyday subject, the painting is one of Anna Ancher's most captivating masterpieces with its many shades of blue and the sense of tranquility it conveys. Devoid of action, the theme is essentially the play of light in the room. The only indication of the outside world is the light streaming through the window.

I was backing up my photos the other night, and came across these installation shots from our winter exhibition in 2019. The first costume I dressed here at FAM! The bustle ought to stick out more, but the weight of the dress pushed it forward. 🗃️🪡 #19thc

A day dress of black and white checked wool trimmed with black silk velvet, with a sable muff, orange scarf, and pair of skates.

The same dress from the side back, showing the draping of the skirt. The bustle underneath is not big enough.

Finished my blog post on #19thc gowns with two bodices! The context turned out to be pretty interesting. 🗃️🪡 mimicofmodes.com/2025/01/26/t...

The Robe à Transformation

For Throwback Thursday I present a replica Reed & Barton Mustache Spoon I obtained 11 years ago. This design is from 1870 but this particular spoon is a silver plate Florence pattern reproduction from the 1970s.
#ThrowbackThursday #steampunk #19thC #centuryofhtebeard

A great example of #19thc hair jewelry, although the cropping is unfortunate! Pieces like this were generally made and sold commercially, not as mourning ornaments in memory of the hair's owner. 🗃️🪡

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A chain of hairwork beads, ending with several hairwork pendants, and a hairwork brooch that looks like a bow with an acorn hanging in a ring to one side.

Another blog post -- this time on 19th century poetic earlids -- in a 54-line poem by James Henry.

I also examine Ovid's rumor mills which served as part of Henry's inspiration.

#AmWriting #blog #earlids #music #gossip #Ovid #19thc #poetry #JamesHenry

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

An image of the 19th c poet James Henry, a gentleman with a fierce beard and face-framing hair, with a patterned scarf above a clearly heavy-weight cloak. The image also has snips of the title page (Menippea) and blog title: "19th Century poetic earlids and the Ovid rumor-mill" and the blog link: SilencesAndSounds.blogspot.com

A brief snippet of the poem is included: Is it just in Heaven to favor so the eyes / with lids to keep out dust and glare and flies, / And leave the poor ears open, night and day,...

Incredible 1890s gym suit of navy and red wool or cotton, in the form of a middy blouse and mid-calf-length bloomers. The main garment is navy, with the red used for the revers, cuffs, dickey, and sash. Also has a pair of flat leather shoes. 🗃️🪡 #19thc

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#OTD, 16 October 1859, and at about this time, 8pm, abolitionist John Brown and his comrades advanced towards Harper's Ferry. By 10pm they had taken both bridges, the U.S. Armory and Arsenal, and the U.S. Rifle Works.
#19thC

OTD, 14 October 1899, the first making of Cavorite. "The chimneys jerked heavenward, smashing into a string of bricks as they rose, and the roof and miscellany of furniture followed. Then, overtaking them, came a huge, white flame."
#steampunk #19thC

I have learned recently that Count Nagaoka Gaishi, famous for his victory at the Battle of Tsushima, has a statue every bit as magnificent as his mustache deserves.
#19thC

Welcome to newcomers to #Mastodon. Happy to see you! I'm an academic #historian, urban/cultural/book/social history, esp. #Scotland 17th/18th/19th centuries. Also accordionist, genealogist, former computer scientist, interactive fiction writer and #DoctorWho fan. Originally from #Hawick, now in #Dundee. https://vivdunstan.co.uk #urbanHistory #culturalHistory #bookHistory #socialHistory #accordion #genealogy #familyHistory #computerScience #interactiveFiction #17thC #18thC #19thC #history

I'm going to have to follow a few accounts now, so it won't be so empty here, but here's a photo of me so you know who you're dealing with.

Feel free to follow me while I orient myself here.

Looking forward to chatting about the long #19thC #c19 Romanticism, the #RomanticPeriod, #GrandTour, #Picturesque, #SublimeAndBeautiful, German #Rheinromantik and, of course, other fans of #MidsomerMurders (#InspectorBarnaby).
@histodons

The ECF editors always welcome submissions on Jane Austen's works.
We cover the very long 18th century!

Jane Austen's "Excellent Walker": Pride, Prejudice, and Pedestrianism
by Olivia Murphy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/523303

#18thCentury #19thCentury #18thC #C18th #19thC #C19th
@ASECS
Submit your work: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf

Abstract: When Mrs Hurst calls Elizabeth Bennet "an excellent walker," in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813), the remark is meant to ridicule. For a modern reader, understanding this connotation requires a small exercise in historical imagination. Recent critical studies explore the rise of rambling and the Romantic poets' penchant for lengthy pedestrian excursions, but Pride and Prejudice does not feature the sort of lonely wanderings that lead to conversations with leech gatherers and mystical mariners. To appreciate the centrality of walking to the novel, we must appropriate Miss Bingley's question, "What could she mean by it?" Before we can understand the attitudes towards walking and the responses to walking exhibited by characters in the novel—and the function of walking in the plot—it is first necessary to explore the changing place of walking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century society, and the uses of walking in Romantic-era literature ...

A colored engraving from 1801 of two ladies in morning dresses, by Nicholas Heideloff, from Gallery of Fashion. One woman holds a green parasol and the other holds her hands inside a large fur muff; they both wear green, decorated bonnets and flowing white dresses.

Been writing about Joshua Hobson, printer, publisher and editor of the Chartist Northern Star #19thC 🗃️
https://www.chartistancestors.co.uk/joshua-hobson-1810-1876/

#19thc

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