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Illustration of man and woman with flowers and text to the happy couple congratulations
Congratulations to the happy couple card 💐💕
Adapted from the Victorian illustrations in Walter Crane’s Queen Summer 1891
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Steampunk Gears - intricate brass gears and clockwork mechanisms.
Steampunk Gears. Brass, copper, and Victorian engineering.
Intricate clockwork mechanisms algorithmically assembled. Industrial beauty in every cog.
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That tension between Anglican restraint and a revived love of medieval richness is written right into the object. #PreRaphaelite #ArtsAndCrafts #VictorianArt
In a broad marble marketplace washed with pale morning light, women gather in small, emotionally distinct groups. Several exhausted bacchants lie asleep or half-awake on the stone pavement, their bodies slack, their hair loosened, their white and cream garments slipping into soft folds around them. One red-haired woman leans forward as if just rising; another sits upright, dazed, while a townswoman in deep blue bends toward her with food or drink. At the left, women cluster around baskets and provisions. At the center and rear, more figures stand in calm, vertical lines beneath a garlanded wall and near a monumental doorway. The contrast is striking: some women are disheveled, collapsed, and vulnerable; others are composed, attentive, and protective. British artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (born in the Netherlands) orchestrates the whole scene through textures like cool stone, translucent drapery, dark hair, warm skin, and the hush of dawn after a long night. The title refers not to the sleeping revelers alone, but to the civic women of Amphissa, whose compassion is the real subject. Alma-Tadema drew the scene from ancient Greek writer Plutarch’s account of the Thyiades, female followers of Dionysus, who wandered in ritual ecstasy from Phocis and fell asleep in Amphissa’s marketplace. Though the cities were hostile, the local women formed a protective barrier around them, fed them when they awoke, and helped them return safely. For a Victorian audience, this historical episode became a moral image of female courage, restraint, and mercy. Rather than staging battle or scandal, Alma-Tadema centers women caring for women across political and social difference. Painted in 1887, when he was at the height of his fame for lavish classical reconstructions, this work turns antiquity into an ethical drama. Civilization is not triumph or punishment, but collective tenderness while the cool marble and luminous fabrics make care itself look monumental.
“The Women of Amphissa” by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch-born British) - Oil on canvas / 1887 - The Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #LawrenceAlmaTadema #AlmaTadema #ClarkArt #VictorianArt #ClassicalArt #blueskyart #art #arttext #BritishArt #ClarkArtInstitute #1880sArt
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An insightful talk by Dr Sally North about the poet and artist Althea Gyles, who had associations with W.B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley and Oscar Wilde.
Special thanks to @treadwells-books.bsky.social
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The Deluge. Scene from ¨ANTEDILUVIAN¨: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsz... 🌊 This still from the animated short is now also available for prints 🌊 Here you can see the original painting that inspired this scene for comparison 🌊 #animation #retrosaurs #victorianart #paleontology #history #paleoart
How The Picture of Dorian Gray Sparked a Victorian Scandal – and Why Oscar Wilde’s Novel Still Shapes Pop Culture #DorianGray #pictureofdoriangray #oscarwilde #oscarwildequotes #victorianart #victorian #victorianera www.gsnsp.com/picture-of-d...
British artist Albert Joseph Moore takes his subject from the Song of Deborah in Judges 5 of the Christian bible, where Sisera’s mother waits at the window and cries through the lattice, “Why is his chariot so long in coming?” The story’s outcome is grim because Sisera has been killed by Jael, yet the painting lingers on the suspended moment before certainty arrives. What we see is the labor of waiting with attention sharpened into worry and hope pressed against dread. The model is Fanny Eaton, a Jamaican-born woman who posed for artists in the Pre-Raphaelite circle, placing a Black muse at the center of a Victorian “biblical” image and complicating ideas of who embodies sacred history. It’s a close view of a woman at a window, shown from the chest up in right-facing profile. Her deep brown skin is modeled with soft, naturalistic light as a warm highlight traces her forehead, cheekbone, nose, and the edge of her lower lip, while the far side of her face dissolves into shadow. Her dark hair is smoothed back and gathered behind. She wears a pale, loosely draped garment that slips open at the throat, and a dense, collar-like necklace of clustered beads that sits heavy on her shoulders. The woman leans forward, intent. One hand rises to a wooden window frame with her fingertips hovering near a narrow grid-like lattice, as if she is about to part it or is listening through it. Behind her, the space is quiet and dark, in reddish-brown and umber tones that keep attention on her face and gesture. Her expression is both alert and strained with eyes wide, brow slightly lifted, mouth gently set, as though she is holding her breath while watching the road. Painted early in Moore’s Royal Academy career, the work shows his early gift for restrained drama, precise observation, and harmonized color. It entered Tullie House through the 1949 bequest of Emily and Gordon Bottomley, and it still reads as a tender study of maternal vigilance.
“The Mother of Sisera” by Albert Joseph Moore (British) - Oil on canvas / 1861 - Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle, England) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #AlbertJosephMoore #TullieHouse #VictorianArt #BiblicalArt #BritishArt #OilPainting #BlueskyArt #BritishArtist #PortraitofaWoman
Finally I've made MasQrade in Dark Fantasy's Characters that based from Gothlit called Frankenstein.
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King Cheer by James Godwin from the Illustrated London News of Saturday, December 24th, 1864.
#ChristmasIllustration #VictorianIllustration #ChristmasArt #VictorianArt #JamesGodwin #OldNewspapers
This artwork is an original Nostalgic Confections Studio engraving, crafted in the precise monochrome Victorian style inspired by Thomas Nast’s 19th-century woodblock illustrations for Harper’s Weekly. The scene depicts two postal workers delivering confectioners’ parcels on a snowy evening. The composition features historically accurate 1880s attire, authentic period cross-hatching, gas-lamp illumination rendered through star-flare linework, and a storefront setting filled with barrels and winter greenery. This engraving is part of the Nostalgic Confections – Thomas Nast Engraving Series, celebrating historic confectionery culture through artisan-grade illustration craftsmanship. © 2025 Nostalgic Confections
Echo Repost - A snowy Victorian street, a wooden parcel of sweets, and two winter deliverymen—the newest engraving in our Thomas Nast–inspired series.
Full artwork:
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This artwork is an original Nostalgic Confections Studio engraving, crafted in the precise monochrome Victorian style inspired by Thomas Nast’s 19th-century woodblock illustrations for Harper’s Weekly. The scene depicts two postal workers delivering confectioners’ parcels on a snowy evening. The composition features historically accurate 1880s attire, authentic period cross-hatching, gas-lamp illumination rendered through star-flare linework, and a storefront setting filled with barrels and winter greenery. This engraving is part of the Nostalgic Confections – Thomas Nast Engraving Series, celebrating historic confectionery culture through artisan-grade illustration craftsmanship.© 2025 Nostalgic Confections
Echo Repost - A snowy Victorian street, a wooden parcel of sweets, and two winter deliverymen—the newest engraving in our Thomas Nast–inspired series.
Full artwork:
thepalimpsest.nostalgicconfections.com/nostalgic-co...
#victorianart #heritagecraft
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This artwork is an original Nostalgic Confections Studio engraving, crafted in the precise monochrome Victorian style inspired by Thomas Nast’s 19th-century woodblock illustrations for Harper’s Weekly. The scene depicts two postal workers delivering confectioners’ parcels on a snowy evening. The composition features historically accurate 1880s attire, authentic period cross-hatching, gas-lamp illumination rendered through star-flare linework, and a storefront setting filled with barrels and winter greenery.© 2025 Nostalgic Confections
A snowy Victorian street, a wooden parcel of sweets, and two winter deliverymen—the newest engraving in our Thomas Nast–inspired series. © 2025 Nostalgic Confections
Full artwork:
thepalimpsest.nostalgicconfections.com/nostalgic-co...
#victorianart #heritagecraft
Steam Piano of the Revolution
#IndustrialRevolution #SteamPiano #VictorianArt #MachineAge #TypographyArt
Painted when British artist Louise Jopling was an ambitious young professional—and pregnant with her son Lindsay, this self-portrait insists on seeing her as a working artist rather than a decorative sitter. She stages herself “through the looking-glass,” riffing on Lewis Carroll’s recent novel to suggest a passage between private and public identities as a woman who sits in her studio and the public painter whose image will hang in exhibitions. She depicts herself as a light-skinned woman artist sitting as she paints on an easel with her body turned slightly to the side so her gaze meets ours in a calm, steady look. She wears a pale blue dress with ruffled trim, a high white collar, and a matching blue-and-white cap perched over dark hair. A spray of yellow and russet flowers hangs at her chest, echoed by warm tones in her cheeks. Jopling balances a wooden palette loaded with bright dabs of paint on her lap, a fan of brushes gathered in her right hand as she works at an unseen canvas. We realize we are looking into a tall, dark-framed mirror. Behind her, a red-brown studio wall, a painted folding screen crowded with tiny figures, a yellow chest of drawers, a draped chair, and the vertical bar of her easel describe a lived-in, professional studio space. Jopling sent this picture to the Society of Lady Artists in 1875, while her companion canvas "A Modern Cinderella" appeared at the Royal Academy, evidence of her determination to claim space in institutions that still excluded women from membership. The folding screen, patterned textiles, and fashionable blue dress signal her place in cosmopolitan Victorian culture, yet the direct gaze, firm posture, and active hands quietly challenge assumptions about women’s roles. Shown in "Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920," the painting restores Jopling to the story of British art as a pioneer who built an art school for women and helped future generations step through the glass of professional exclusion.
“Through the Looking-Glass” by Louise Jopling (English) – Oil paint on canvas / 1875 – Tate Britain (London, England) #WomenInArt #LouiseJopling #Jopling #TateBritain #TateMuseum #VictorianArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #arte #BlueskyArt #mirror #EnglishArtist #SelfPortrait
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A handmade crystal shaped resin dice set empowered with vampiric essence.
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