https://fromoldbooks.org/r/5H/pages/845-victorian-paupers-christmas/

Picture: Thomas Morten (1836‒1866) (yes, died at 30) engraved by Dalziel brothers, to accompany a poem, An Orphan’s Family Christmas, by Gerald Massey. See link for poem

They were so poor they had no turnspit (clockwork meat spit)! it was a major part of the industrial revolution.

The Dalziel studio also engraved the Alice in Wonderland pics

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A curly-haired Italian boy comforts his younger sister, “Don’t Cry” in this French painting from 1878.

The engraving was made by Paul Adolphe Rajon, himself a painter and printmaker, after the oil painting by Léon Bonnat.

#portrait #children #poverty #grief #sad #costumes #fobo #victorianArt

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Cassell-MagazineOfArt/pages/000-frontispiece/

"Woman and Flowers," Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1866.

I've featured Alma-Tadema before, so I won't bother much with biography.

He was a huge fan of Classical Greek art and stylings, and included them a lot in his artwork, even when depicting contemporary scenes.

Here we have an obviously Victorian scene, with a sofa and all that but the table, and the woman's hair and clothing, all echo Classical Greece. It's quite a mingling of themes that works quite well. Also a rather sensual painting, in showing her obvious joy in smelling the flowers.

Happy Flower Friday!

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"Jilted," Briton Rivière, 1887.

Rivière (1840-1920) was a British painter and illustrator known mostly for his paintings of animals. He started doing academic historical paintings, but later moved on to specialize in animals, as he simply enjoyed doing it more.

In an interview with a children's magazine, he spoke of how he spent enormous amounts of time at the London zoo, sketching the animals, and also working in dissection rooms to study their anatomy and musculature. Early in his career, he also worked as an illustrator for the humor magazine Punch.

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

#Art #BritishArt #VictorianArt #AnimalsInArt #DogsOfMastodon #BritonRiviere