Modesty & Monocles

Formerly language and literature, now mostly nice pictures and art

[vintage-sweden]

Torhild Aulin, 1946, Sweden.

[7pleiades7]

Nude, Seen from Behind (Nu de dos) (n/d) by Herman-Jean-Joseph Richir (Belgian, 1866 – 1942), signed ‘Herman Richir’ (lower left), oil on canvas, 31 3/4 x 24 in (80.6 x 61.0 cm), Private Collection

[gacougnol]

J. Parker Lamb

Illinois Central Railroad

Steam locomotive no. 2613 leading the southbound Cairo Turn local freight train out of Carbondale, Illinois, on December 28, 1959.

[the1920sinpictures]

July 22, 1919 Westminster in the early morning rain. Autochrome plate by Fernand Cuville. From Old London Photos, FB.

[randomvintageeurope]

[thingsfromthedirt]

[forever70s]

1969 Coca Cola ad

[modestyandmonocles]

Odd Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám reference

[gremlininho]

looking. at you

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

From the Earth to the Moon Direct in 97 Hours 20 Minutes by Jules Verne Translated from the French by Louis Mercier MA (Oxon) and Elenor E King London Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington, 1876 Author’s Edition with illustrations 160 pages + 16 page publishers catalogue dated January 1876

[7pleiades7]

Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog) (c. 1818) by Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774 – 1840), oil on canvas, 94.8 cm × 74.8 cm (37.3 in × 29.4 in), Hamburger Kunsthalle

[7pleiades7]

Adoration (1903) by Stephen Abel Sinding (Norwegian, 1846 – 1922), marble, h: 204 cm, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

[modestyandmonocles]

This Month's Installment I'm still behind, so this is still shorter than usual.  What's italicized is what I'm unsure about.      After eati

[randomvintageeurope]

[hagenlastkiss]

Carrie Fisher during the production of the film Shampoo in 1975

📷 REX/Columbia Pictures

[thyming]

"𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘" 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒂 (𝟏𝟖𝟑𝟗-𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟒)

[7pleiades7]

1st-century AD Roman fresco depicting the goddess Diana, also known as Artemis in Greek mythology, holding a bow and arrow.

The painting was excavated from the Villa Arianna in Stabiae, near Pompeii, and is currently housed in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

[modestyandmonocles]

[gacougnol]

William Mortensen (American | 1897 - 1965)

Woman of Languedoc, circa 1936