Victorian Medievalist

Idealistic pessimist, crazy cat lady, historian by calling though it never put a scrap of gold in my pocket. All the good men are dead. Head lurker. I'm really just here read and reblog everyone else's stuff.

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Jeti-Ögüz, Kyrgyzstan by Sergey Mehzin

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Still busy painting ships for an upcoming exhibition in March. Here: Erebus and Terror in 1845! ^_^

Size A4. Medium: Watercolor on paper.

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Tintagel Old Post Office, Tintagel, Cornwall. A 14th-century stone house that briefly served as a post office in the Victorian era.

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A seal fob pendant set with a gorgeous citrine base, intaglio carved with the word "Spero" translating from Latin to "Hope". Carved below is a ship, a Norwegian ship built by T. Salvesen in 1893, and ran aground (wrecked) in 1910. However, "hope" on it's own, a lovely sentiment. It's crafted in 15k gold throughout with a highly ornate body which dates circa 1820. The ship was probably added much later.

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✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

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The ramparts of Mount Erebus. Ross Island near Antarctica during the Terra Nova expedition, 1911.

Herbert Ponting

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dragon fights

in the margins of the prayer book of charles the bold, a diminuitive prayer book (measuring about 5 x 3.5 in, or 13 x 9 cm) comissioned by charles the bold, duke of burgundy, and written and illuminated in flanders, late 15th c.

source: Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 37

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Stained glass window in St Mary’s Church, Banbury - Pictured here is HMS Terror stuck in the ice. The images was taken from the Arctic reports and notebook of Admiral Sir George Back during his Arctic expedition in 1836. It was commissioned by Henry Back, the admiral’s brother and vicar of the church in c. 1860.

[ltwilliammowett]

Alexander von Humboldt

With her distinctive green hull and sails

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Reblog to have Amos on your dash

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just in case anyone forgot how wildly colorful Georgian interiors could be, even among the working class to the wealthy:

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and EVEN WHEN things were more muted/neutral, the neutrality was OFFSET by ACCENT COLORS and HIGH CONTRAST between the wood tones and everything ELSE

ALSO AMERICAN COLONIAL INTERIORS POPPED OFF, Y'ALL (IN TERMS OF COLOR/COZINESS)

PEOPLE USED WHITEWASH AND COLORFUL TRIM OR EVEN JUST COLORFUL FURNITURE IF THEY COULD AFFORD TO DO SO

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON FRENCH AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN WALLPAPERS

"ELIZABETH" YOU CRY, "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EXTRA THIS MORNING?! IT'S MONDAY"

Because, my friend, my war on GREIGE will NEVER end.

Historic interiors were filled with LIFE and LIGHT and COLOR. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

Part of the reason we don't see a lot of textile art is because, frankly, textiles tend to degrade over time - especially ones that had utility! And yes, pigments and weaving and dying all boosted the expense of things, when we were finally reliably block-printing fabrics and broad reams of paper, it was no longer just the wealthy who could afford pretty patterns!

In the Americas, a far wider variety of pigments also became available because of the abundance of... well, a shitton of flora and minerals, some of which weren't as common in Europe.

WHY THE HIGHLIGHTER COLORS? you ask.

CANDLES.

Those colors reflect candlelight and natural sunlight REALLY WELL.

Humans LOVE bright colors, it's NOT just a thing for kids. We live in a brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted world. We ALWAYS have.

(STOP MAKING YOUR HISTORIC SIMS 4 BUILDS BE BLAND. STOP IT.)

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On the subject of Colonial America: don't forget, even if you couldn't afford wallpaper, wall stenciling might still be in reach!

(If ever you have the opportunity to visit the Stencil House at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont (pictured above at 3, 4, and 5), I highly recommend.)

And that's before you get into American painted murals:

Embrace the decorative arts, folks!

[ltwilliammowett]

The Nao Victoria has sailed into London (1.07.2026) and is now open to visitors at St Katharine Docks

Source

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I believe to produce a child her parents had to be the same species.

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To produce offspring, both parents need to be the same species. Meaning both Neanderthals and Denisovoans are the same species. Humans.

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‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the regi

For more than a century, the inhospitable conditions, which present a challenge even for modern icebreaker ships, helped to protect the lost wreck, which was discovered in 2022, its structure still largely intact.

To safeguard it for future generations, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) has proposed that the ship and the surrounding sea become the region’s first specially protected underwater area.

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Mariquita Jenny Moberly (British, 1855-1937) - The Flight Of Nicolette

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The Lady of Elche, sometimes interpreted as an Atlantean priestess, is also believed to be related to the Carthaginian goddess Tanit. Greco-Iberian bust from Alicante (αρχαία Ελίκη), Spain, c.400-350 BC.