Nicki Minaj arrives at 2020’ Met Gala in a 1870’s inspired look ✨ . I hope you all like it! (Please help me share and tag her🖤)

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Fancy a midweek moment of sweet idleness?! If so join these luscious ladies in their leisure in this week's &
'Il Dolce Far Niente' c.1866, retouched mid 1870s, Schaeffer Collection
'Dolce Far Niente' 1880, Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery

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What's left out of a story and illustration about Thanksgiving at a New York City orphanage in the 1870s. https://t.co/Ea3fiRXSVk

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In 1870s New Orleans, the most popular surname was "Bernard". The most popular given names were "John" and "Mary". The most common occupation was "laborer" followed by "clerk".

Don't pretend you didn't want to know that.

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Some art for the game I'm running on Discord of the hostess of the party, the Lady Camille von Schwartz, in her ballgown.

I tried to make it at least possibly historically accurate because I'm like that.

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Is it possible for a human to grow a new skull? According to one eminent French medic, that's exactly what happened when a young boy was seriously injured in the 1870s. More on this extraordinary case report here: https://t.co/loWhm0b3TX

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“It has certainly been a splendid voyage....Icefields, snow white on very dark blue water as far as the eye can reach.”
–Arthur Conan Doyle's Diary, SS Hope, 20th March 1880.

William Bradford's frozen, luminous paintings of the Greenland & Labrador coasts from the 1870s & 80s.

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A Tea Seller in Istanbul, 1870s
Bir Osmanlı Seyyar Çaycı, 1870'ler

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Giovanni Boldini
Still Life with Roses
1870s

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PaInting a self portrait in front of the mirror by a noble man in Qing Dynasty, ca.1870s, courtesy of Capital Museum of China.

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A storm-petrel silk faille & taffeta visiting dress, by Charles Worth from the 1870s, trimmed with dark Atlantic-grey-silver steel beads; a gown for hot tisane & petits fours, dispelling old melancholy, whilst outside the rain sheets & the city rumbles then stills like the sea.

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Born Fantin-Latour underwent a striking evolution in his career, starting out as a member of the Realist avant-garde before creating anti-Realist, fantastic compositions in the 1870s.

Find over 100 works by Fantin-Latour in our collection https://t.co/rAq3ubSX49

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In the 1870s Hampstead residents afraid of the spread of smallpox opposed the location of the Fever Hospital. They suggested a less populous site (in red on map). In 1885 the Metropolitan Asylum Board moved all smallpox patients to hospital ships on the Thames

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Degas (1870s) His vision was idiosyncratic, focused & atmospheric.

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"How One Misunderstanding in the 1870s Created an Entire Sci-Fi Subgenre"

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A strange and beautiful symmetry between early seascapes of the 1870s, and those of American landscape painter A balance between light and crisp Impressionistic modernity.

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“Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do” — Edgar Degas https://t.co/UP04f1e1ZB

Image: A Study of a Girl's Head (1870s) by Edgar Degas.

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OPENING TOMORROW—“Dress Codes: Portrait Photographs from the Collection”

Explore the power of clothing in pictures with selections spanning the 1870s to present: https://t.co/cAKwGXZos1

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This is Hannah, an 1870s ""medium"" who never believed in ghosts until she came face to face with one. (she/her)

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