This is the Twitter (X) account for my new 'Discovering History' Youtube channel. I post here infrequently. My Twitter (X) art account is at @longvictorian2
Yorkshire, UK
Joined March 2015
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'A girl shoots a man dead at a ball for treading on her foot and declining to apologise.' A story from the sensational weekly magazine, The illustrated Police News. No doubt Sherlock Holmes used to take it. #VictorianCrime #BallroomRage #FashionHistory
Homeless (1890) by Thomas Benjamin Kennington (English artist, lived 1856–1916). #Victorian #London.
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The Bath (1873-74) by Alfred Stevens (Belgian artist, lived 1823–1906). I declare there is no enjoyment like reading!
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The Crystal Ball (1902) by John William Waterhouse (English artist, lived 1849-1917). The painting has been restored to show the skull that a previous owner had covered up. #Edwardian #PreRaphaelite
Pauline in the Yellow Dress (1944) by Herbert James Gunn (Scottish artist, lived 1893–1964). The artist's wife - he painted her many times. The ‘Mona Lisa of 1944’.
A Favour (1898) by Edmund Blair Leighton (English artist, lived 1852–1922). A Regency era scene painted in the late Victorian period. The only error seems to be the high'ish heels - which surely should be flat (?). 🤔
Love Among the Ruins (1894) by Edward Burne-Jones (English artist, lived 1833–1898). #ValentinesDay #ValentinesDay2023
Lamia and the Soldier (1905) by John William Waterhouse (English artist, lived 1849–1917). Private collection. Pre-Raphaelite style.
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I like to think if my Scottish Grandmother had lived this would have been our bonding. Apparently she loved to read as l have always loved to. l just feel both of us would have shared our magical imaginations which only we could understand.💃🦋🌲🌱🌳🌷🌿🍀🍁
Pan (1592) by Annibale Carracci (Bolognese artist, lived 1560–1609). #mythology #goat
The Goethe Monument (1832) by Carl Gustav Carus (German artist, lived 1789-1869). #gothic
The Crystal Ball (1902) by John William Waterhouse (English artist, lived 1849-1917). The painting has been restored to show the skull that a previous owner had covered up. #Edwardian #PreRaphaelite