no trespassing sign = cool thing behind this fence

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Day Dress

c. 1837-1840

printed challis and lined with glazed cotton and linen from Great Britain

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Sibyl, Otterbein College, 1905 

Aublet, Arabic Madonna and Child

Little Miss Doomed to the Narrative

The Evening Silence, c. 1900 by Wilhelm Kotarbiński (Polish, 1849–1921)

shoutout today to Cynthia, the celebrity mannequin. she spent the ‘30s being taken to high society parties and eventually became so popular she got her own fashion column, a cameo in a Jack Benny movie (where he mistakes it for a real girl), and a LIFE magazine profile in which her sculptor (a gay man who turned out to be using her as an elaborate beard) hires her as an escort, wines and dines it, and finally returns to their hotel room and disassembles her.

Self-portrait ca. 1910, sold on eBay

Anonymous Works

Femme en lévitation, 1890, photographer unknown

darling photograph i bought today

Brandon Kilgour

Le Crabe, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau