daguerreotype era

main: heartofglass82

[postcard-from-the-past]

Buddhist priests and monastery in Burma, Myanmar

British vintage postcard

[postcard-from-the-past]

Hubert Latham and his Antoinette monoplane

French vintage postcard

[metmuseum]

Pincushion. 1820s–30s. Credit line: Ralph T. Coe Collection, Gift of Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/320848

[didoofcarthage]

The Vestal by workshop of Antonio Canova 

Italian, c. 1819-1823

marble 

Metropolitan Museum of Art 

[postcard-from-the-past]

Hall in the Grands Magasins du Printemps department store in Paris

French vintage postcard

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My favorite (and weirdest) equine images are collected in my horse gallery.

[portrait-paintings]

Self-Portrait with the Muses (Allegory of Music and Painting)

Artist: Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, 1741-1807)

Date: 1792

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

[venustapolis]

Le Royaume des fleurs, Olympe fantastique (Hugues Martin, c. 1854)

[metmuseum]

Ensemble. 1805–10. Credit line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn and Alice L. Crowley Bequests, 1989 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/103811

[folklorespring]

Karaite girl, 1912

[pmamtraveller]

Pan Comforting Psyche by Reinhold Begas, Germany, 1857.

[charnel-grounds]

Camillo Verno (1870–1942)

“La morte e la fanciulla” (Death and the Maiden)

oil on canvas, c. 1895 — source

[history-of-fashion]

1855 Josef Plank - Portrait of Gentleman, Three-Quarter-Length, Standing in a Dark Suit Beside a Column

(Private collection)

[pwlanier]

Alexandre Bertin (1854–1934), French portrait and landscape painter, portrait of a man in uniform leaning pensively against a stack of books and documents, oil on canvas, signed lower right

Historia Auctionata

[postcard-from-the-past]

Wichí people making pottery in the Chaco Salteño region of Argentina

Argentinian vintage postcard, mailed to Paris

[postcard-from-the-past]

Eel fishers from northern Vietnam

French vintage postcard

[1five1two]

'A Coastal Rock Stack with Gulls'. James H. C. Millar. 1907.