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Karl Johann, Count Konigsmarck, was famed for his lustrous hair... and is it any wonder? He looks like a hair metal singer from the 80s!
Spiritual Lovers by Thomas Rowlandson. "Thou soon shalt be Bone of my Bone, and Flesh of my Flesh", and don't they both look thrilled about it? #art #valentinesday #gloriousGeorgians
The trials of Henrietta Howard, remembered by Horace Walpole... "She has been confined with the gout in her eyes ... They poulticed her feet to draw the gout downwards, [but] it flew up into her head, and she was almost in convulsions with the agony" Ouch! #gloriousGeorgians
Edith Head’a costume concept sketches for Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Lush! #adventFrocks
Massive green penis was the *only* way to travel in the medieval world. Decretum Gratiani, Italy, 1340-1345
When 17 y.o. Augusta, Princess of Wales, went into labour, her husband made her travel 20 miles to give birth at St James's Palace. Despite her pain, “The Prince insisted... telling her, with the consolatory tenderness of an executioner, that it would be over in a minute.” Ulp.
Munch, Vampire, 1893. Or a vampire munching, by Munch, who actually titled it "Love and Pain". #Halloween
Serving serious net curtain bikini glamour! A Parisian cabaret artist, 1900, via Getty Images.
Maria Branwell, mother of the Brontës, died #onthisday in 1821. Maria was just 28 when she died. #GloriousGeorgians