classics

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[fordarkmornings]

Les confidences pastorales (ca. 1745) 

François Boucher

Oil on canvas

[thefloralia]

Floralia, 1898

Hobbe Smith

[theleafygirl-photography]

The grave of Anne Bronte the youngest Bronte sister in a graveyard in Scarborough. The grave contains one mistake Charlotte had her age engraved as 28 when she was actually aged 29 when she died of pulmonary tuberculosis

[pierppasolini]

Caravaggio (1986) // dir. Derek Jarman

[hausu]

Brideshead Revisited (1981)

[earlymoderngothic]

Hiking in Brontë country with my girl, Emily.

ig: warmdayswillnevercease

[barcarole]

Pages from William Blake’s working notebook, in which he started writing around 1787.

[weepforadonais]

“He was the most interesting figure I ever saw; his eyes like a deer’s, bright but rather wild; his white throat unfettered; his slender but to me almost faultless shape; his brown long coat with curling lambs’ wool collar and cuffs–”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, described by a Miss Rose c. 1817.

[gnossienne]

Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon (c. 1954)

[rosierainy]

The Secret Garden (1993)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

She had discovered something—something very profound it had been, about love and sadness,

Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “Jacob’s Room,” wr. c. 1922 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[wrappedallinwoe]

First illustrated edition of Paradise Lost, 1688. Illustrated by John Baptist Medina.

[fashion-and-film]

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

[achasma]

Love as Folly by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1773-1776.

(transparent)

[fruitie]

Newstead Abbey (ancestral home of Lord Byron)

[valery-violetta-deactivated2021]

Charlotte Brontë

21/04/1816 - 21/04/2016

[boykeats]

Wilfred Owen, “From My Diary, July 1914″

(original manuscript & a transcription)