#historic objects

[orchidscript]

Thank you @deluxewhump for reminding me! This is the short-ish video I made about my sword, an “Anglo Afghan” from the 1880s roughly.

It’s not super great. Don’t expect Tiktok/Instagram quality here, folks. I was incredibly nervous the whole time and my only video making experience is, like, making music videos to Avril Lavigne songs in middle school with my friends.

If you’d like to issue a correction or if you have more information you’d like to share, my askbox is open! Just be kind? Please? Thank you!

(Also, if you’d like me to make more things like this, let me know. I’m not opposed and clearly could use the practice 😅)

[gentlyepigrams]

Compendium, an astronomical toolkit from 1557, containing two different kinds of sundial, a nocturnal and two lunar volvelles to tell time at night, a world map, ten pages engraved with astronomical and astrological tables, seven blank pages, and a magnetic compass. Adler Planetarium.

[gentlyepigrams]

A Chinese moon bed made of satinwood. About 1875, Sung Sing Kung Factory, China. Now on display at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts

[gentlyepigrams]

Marie Antoinette's watch, took 40 years to produce, it was only finished 30 years after her execution

[gentlyepigrams]

Astrolabe, 1875. India. Royal Collection. A silver astrolabe with a tubular eye-piece. Astrolabes are used to measure the position of stars and planets. In Sanskrit, the astrolabe is referred to as the yantraraja which translates to the 'king of instruments'.

[gentlyepigrams]

Pickle jar by Challinor, Taylor and Company, 1870–90. The MET.

[eminedag2002]

Historical object. So many details to draw ✨

11/2021

[eminedag2002]

Drawing interesting objects is always inspiring, you never know what you’ll learn until you actually draw it.

03/2021