An elegant, strong portrait composition by 'Elizabeth' is characteristic of MacNicol's figurative work in the late 1890s. This beautiful work saw £60,200 incl premium in today's flagship auction.

Discover this work: https://t.co/kCMHuEEVTT

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Harry Lawson Webster Lawson, by Leslie Ward - Vanity Fair, 16 November 1893

He was a British newspaper proprietor. He was originally a Liberal politician before joining the Liberal Unionist Party in the late 1890s.

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Oscar Wilde, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 24 May 1884

He was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.

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Rabbit in a Victorian bat costume for fanart Friday.
The costume is a design from the early 1890s. I remembered about it earlier this week and wanted to draw this.

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Challenge: Explain what Woke is to a guy from the 1890s.

Here's a little drawing I did of how the Martial Republic is very different from irl America.

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A couple of Victorian travellers, 1890s.

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Paddle steamers like the Hygeia took passengers from to the Mornington Peninsula. This sheet music could have been a memento of an enjoyable trip to Sorrento in the 1890s.
🔗https://t.co/Lfyc30M0oi

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Character drawing inspired by Yachting ensemble 1890s.

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Taiwanese aborigines, 1890s.

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Celeste Alten, a wild/weird west witch from the 1890s.
She's as beautiful as dangerous. As a powerful witch, she took part in a lot of battles, but now she's trying to change her life. To find a nice place where she can lead a peaceful life.

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‘P&O Steamer off Aden’ is a tranquil, soothing piece that depicts a steamship taking on supplies at Aden in the 1890s. We love this as a wallpaper mural in a bathroom… Would you have this in your bathroom? https://t.co/jLOJx650RJ

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It’s day: https://t.co/SXwVoQR98Y

London 1890s. Out of the Thames’ fetid depths the undead rise to feast upon the living.

Can violent youth gangs put aside their rivalries long enough to get the job done?


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Today on the ‘Cardiff Days Gone By’ FB page I’ve been sharing some of the Paris-based American artist Lionel Walden’s paintings of Cardiff’s docks and steelworks, painted in the 1890s. The first 3 pics are in , while the 4th is in .

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wanted to actually FINISH something so I did the June which is Early Victorian (1850s), however this outfit is more 1890s. I just like big poufy shoulders apparently!

This is run by and more info on the prompts here: https://t.co/KNvQ8fi2LR

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But grinding was slow and tedious work that required considerable arm strength and skill. Preparing materials “depends upon the exertion of great pressure on the pestle,” wrote one chemist in the 1890s. Inventive chemists explored ways to mechanize this work.

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It was the 1890s. On a bet, Annie rode a bicycle around the world when few women rode bikes or wore bloomers. She stopped to give lectures on her adventures, which were often a mixture of truth and telltale and entertaining as hell.

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Nandi in Gyanvapi facing the mosque wall where Kashi Vishwanath once stood in his temple.
Photo from the 1890s.

The mosque was built in 1669 after destroying the Vishwanath temple by the orders of Aurangzeb (firman was issued in 1666 ~ Kolkata Asiatic Society documentation)

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Lev and Raisa at the theatre back in the early 1890s. For Chapter 2.

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