Time travel the world with aspirational designs by lithographer/artist Félix Durin. Published by the Paris firm of Firmin-Didot in the 1870s. Collections of the New York Public Library.
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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
Automotive mascots out of the Jazz Age. Some of these having been part of a Agfa Film brand advertising campaign. From a recent Bonham’s auction catalogue.
Images of algae all arted up and much prettier than what’s at the bottom of the pond. Taken from Kintaro Okamura’s 1911 work “Icones of Japanese algae”.
Dress like the Empress Josephine. Watercolors by Adam Buck. Living from 1759 to 1833, he was principally active in London. His patrons included George IV and the Duke of York.
Figural lamps from my new blogging friend Rick Hornwood who sent me the link to his website. These lamps are all to be found in his ebay store “CalLamps”. The last is a great dane porcelain figurine so not a lamp but also fun and then too my dog loving grandmother owned a pair of pedigreed great danes that my mother and her brother loved.
Wallpaper samples from R. C. Kedzie’s 1874 work “Shadows from the Walls of Death.” Lovely colors but filled with arsenic which was used in the green dyes.
Images taken from an album of watercolor drawings of plants, insects and fruit, nineteenth century. Chinese school. Some are captioned in Chinese.
The album was in the collections of Winifred Bois. Winifred Bois was the daughter of Frederic William Bois, (1848-1921). Frederic was an amateur photographer who exhibited at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, and whose family had held a prominent place in the mercantile life of Ceylon since the 1860s. Winifred traveled extensively in the Far East. She collected Chinese school watercolors.
The gardens at Trentham Hall, seat of the Duke of Sutherland. 1858. Taken from Edward Adveno Brooke’s “The Gardens of England”. Printed in London by T. M. McLean.
Trentham Hall is an estate in Stoke-On-Trent in Staffordshire, England. It was one of the estates of the Duke of Sutherland. It was abandoned in 1905 after sewage and effluent from nearby potteries polluted the Trent River which fed the lake in the early 20th century, making life at the hall unpleasant. Most of it was demolished in 1912 but the gardens remain, probably not looking exactly like this.
Edward Adveno Brooke (1821–1910) appears to primarily have been a landscape painter who strayed into the realm of painting gardens.
Imagery from “Atlas Japannensis : being remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the Emperor of Japan, containing a description of their several territories, cities, temples and fortresses, their religions, laws and customs, their prodigious wealth and gorgeous habits, the nature of their soil, plants, beasts, hills, rivers and fountains, with the character of the ancient and modern Japanners.” Published in London in 1670.
Plates from Anton Seder’s 1896 work “Das Thier Der Decorativen Kunst.” Decorative arted up animals doing odd things.
