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Comrades
Comrades, the 42nd Highlanders (copy of a lost earlier painting by the artist) 1894, by Robert Gibb. This image is extremely moving and poignant. The scene is of the 42nd Regiment of Foot (later...
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A Highland Outpost
A Highland Outpost by John Pettie. Tagged: broadsword, highlander, john pettie, kilt, scotland, tam o'shanter, targe
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The Blind Fiddler
“An itinerant fiddler is playing for a humble country family. David Wilkie focuses on the listeners’ different expressions. Only two people seem to respond to the music: the baby and the boy on the...
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Working Man’s Boots
Ah Vincent. Beauty in the mundane. Tagged: 19th century, boots, hobnail boots, vangogh, vincent van gogh
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Farquharson
Maybe it’s time to institute Highlander Art Mondays for a while. From James Logan’s The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845. Great kilt, bill staff, and some fine pampooties. Tagged:...
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Sawing Planks
Before powered saw mills, making lumber was much more labor intensive. Now I can flip a switch to crank up the band saw or table saw; or pull the cord to fire up the chainsaw for big work. It’s easy...
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The Last Minstrel
A little music for Monday. Well, not really. Just a beautiful scene that conjures music. The Last Minstrel by Ralph Hedley. Painted 1890. Tagged: bard, Great Britain, harp, harpist, minstrel, Pub,...
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Bender Tent
A Traveller’s (sic) Tuesday. Just a glimpse into life in a bender tent. Despite the glamorous view of life on the road depicted by the romantic English Gypsy Caravans, this is how most Roma lived in...
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An Open Lot Accommodation
A little something for Wagon Wednesday. A simple bow-top accommodation. Very little of the wagon is seen in the image but we can rest assured that it was painted green at one time. Hedley picked up...
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“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise”
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even …...
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Making Your Attitude
“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the...
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Surrey Caravans for Sale
Tagged: caravan, craftsmanship, вардо, gypsy wagon, nomad, roulotte, schäferwagen, sheep wagon, vardo
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William Sydney Mount, another pointless art excursion
My strange tendency, as an art-admirer, is to sometimes over-analyze a painting, not only as the Art itself, but also as a documentation of time and place. In historical paintings, it’s fun to look...
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Ode to the “Wanderer”
“About going where he likes, for instance? Are there not certain laws of the road that forbid the tarrying by the way of caravan folks, for a longer period than that necessary to water and feed a horse...
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Any Information Please!
I discovered this cabinet card on http://joshuafountain.tumblr.com/. Wedding? Circus? Festival? It certainly is some sort of novelty. Maybe some kitschy ideas to spice up my own ride. Tagged: art...
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Zenana Carriages, a minor mystery solved
Zenana– def. The place where the ladies reside. Origin: Urdu. Yesterday I posted this cabinet card image found on Tumblr and asked for help in identifying the style. Crowd-sourcing research on the...
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Gymnacyclidium, get them while they’re hot
Gymnacyclidium – Sounds like something for which you could be administered a shot to clear it up. I don’t remember where I first found this image but it has been curated on my hard drive for some time...
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Have a Look at the Racy “Waverley Belle” Velocipede
Are you aware, gentle reader, that the bicycle is closely associated with women’s liberation, the suffragettes, and other forms of late 19th century promiscuity and other offensive behaviors among the...
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More Classic Camp Gear from the American West
I have no information about this image as it was one of those random internet finds. The gear looks to be from about the turn of the 19th-20th Century and supplies the basics for an American or...
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Another Look
Here’s another look at an image I posted quite a while ago. I really like this photo. These Scottish Travellers give a glimpse of some less-than-stereotypical living waggons (sic). Very few...
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