loverofbeauty:

Edgar Degas:  Oil Sketch (1872)

This makes me miss drawing.

poboh:

Lassale Le Salon de 1874

 Camille-Leopold Cabaillot. French (1839 - 1888)

Lots of Dolly Varden polonaises and a staff parasol. So, that’s cool.

(via drtuesdaygjohnson)

In the absence of any REAL drawing, here’s an unfinished sketch I did while in South Carolina last week - I was going for a mid-late 1870s look (I’m still learning the slim-lined post-bustle look when it comes to drawing it) but I think I went a bit overboard with the van-dyked mantle. Harumph.

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870, [tintype portrait of a woman admiring framed tintypes]

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive

Adore. I really love this image. A drawing of patrons in a photographer’s studio parlor I think could be inspired by this.

blaaargh:

Attributed to Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company, Side Chair, 1875

YES. I love Pottier and Stymus.

blaaargh:

Vase, probably John Moses and Company, 1879

Please place yourself on my hypothetical mantel right this minute.

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1870, [daguerreotype portrait of a woman looking into mirror]

via the George Eastman House Collection, Still Photograph Archive

questionableadvice:

~ Dusky Diamond Soap Trade Card, 1870

“Don’t you just want to feel my arm?”

Puck to Nemesis: These proud edifices helped to rear that one! Your task is not yet completed

Puck, April 10, 1878.

Library of Congress

I find myself fascinated by Madame Restell, obviously.

New York City. - Opening Day at Lord & Taylor’s Store, Broadway and Twentieth Street - Ladies Ascending the Elevator. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, January 11, 1873