hadrian6:

Detail : Farewell Between a Spartan Woman and Her Son. 1795. Pierre Michel Alix French 1762-1817.  after Jean Guillaume Moitte. 1746-1810. engraving.       http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

chasingrainbowsforever:

~ Yellow and White ~

barcarole:

A manuscript of Mendelssohn’s Schiflied (Reed Song), from his Op. 71. Mendelssohn and his wife Cécile spent the winter of 1844-5 in the Frankfurt area, where Cécile had been born. While there Mendelssohn made a copy of a song he had composed in 1842: Schilflied (Reed Song), which sets to music words by Nikolaus Lenau. Not only did he write it out in his best hand, he also illustrated it with a meticulous watercolour which depicts the song’s opening line: ‘On the lake’s unruffled surface rests the moon’s fair beam.’ It was a present for his friend Henrietta Keyl, the wife of a Frankfurt wine merchant.

predecessors:

A man standing on the Sphinx, demonstrating its size. Circa 1900s.

oldpaintings:

A Salon in Restoration Taste by Hilaire Thierry (French, active 1815–1825)

livesunique:

“Westward,” 

Designed by Nathaniel G. Herreshoff in 1910, 

Photo taken in July 15, 1947 by Frank William Beken

robert-hadley:

Photo by Christopher Horwood