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Details: Moonlit seascape, Carl Bille, 1890

Sailors and Landsmen -- A Story of 1812- A captain courts his sweetheart - by Howard Pyle 1894

You ever sit there doing something with your hands, listening to a podcast or audiobook or something, and suddenly realise that's your natural state to be. This is what you're supposed to be doing, crafting something nice while listening to another human's speech and thoughts. How people have done this for as long as there's been people, from crafting arrow heads from rocks while listening to grandma tell the tale of the mammoth hunt, to having a friend read aloud from a book while you're all fixing horse reins and doing needlework, to you sitting there doing whatever you're doing, with youtube open on the background.

I finished this fanart yesterday.

I am re-watching Downton and fall in love with our angel Anna again!!

I did some 1hr studies and combined them with how Cumberland Forest would look like in October

Captain Pellew and the Dutton

On 26 January 1796 Captain Edward Pellew of HMS Indefatigable, dressed in splendid full dressed uniform, and accompanied by his wife, was on his way to a formal dinner in Plymouth with Doctor Hawker, vicar of Charles Church . Their route took them past the open space above the sea cliffs kown as the Hoe. Despite stormy weather crowds were gathered on the Hoe gesturing excitly out ot sea. Pellew stopped his carriage and went to investigate. It soon become clear the Dutton ( she was a former EIC ship) a troopship bound for the West Indies, had run on to rocks. Lying broadside against smashing waves she had lost her masts and was listing badly; the imminent loss of all aboard seemed in no doubt.

The Wreck of the ex East Indiaman ‘Dutton’ in Plymouth Sound, 26 January 1796 by Thomas Luny 1821

Pellew urged the onlookers to help (including the officers of Dutton, who enraged Pellew at having abandoned the passengers to their fate)- but nobody was willing to risk his life in the seething waters. The situation was desperate, so Pellew decided to go it alone. Quickly discarding his fine attire he threw himself into the sea and seizing the hawser ( a large ship’s rope) that the officers used to save themselves, and which was still attached to the ship, hauled himself hand over hand out to the stricken vessel. When he reached Dutton he clambered on deck and drew his sword. Assuming command, he told the frightened passengers three things: that they would all be saved if they quietly obeyed his orders, that he would be the last to quit the wreck- and that he would run through anyone who disobeyed him.

The Wreck of the Dutton, An East Indiaman by Samuel Prout, ca. 1815

Order was swiftly brought to the chaos aboard, despite the fact that many of the soldiers, believing ther end was near, had resorted to drink and were on a sorry state of inebriation. Pellew managed, with help from young Irishman Jeremiah Coghlan, to get two additional hawsers ashore and contrived an ingenious endless rope cradle to convey passengers to safety . Others were taken off in boats that rescuers had eventually managed to bring alongside. Almost all of the 500 men, women and children aboard were saved, including a three weeks old baby. Just between 2 and 20 were lost. Dutton had broken her back and was a total loss. The wreck was sold for £850. For this feat he was created a baronet on 18 March 1796, he was 39 years old at this time.

I love autumn. I just love it!

ANNE WITH AN E (2017-2019)

King's College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (@foxglove_and_ivy IG)

winter storms | lighthouses of southern maine

snow day

prints

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Cora Crawley, Downton Abbey, Ep. 1

Warp Printed Silk Taffeta Day Dress, ca. 1838

via Philadelphia Museum of Art

It’s 1810 and is your man wearing anything besides a shirt beneath his clothes?

Pulling out my collection of military-focused men’s fashion history books as I contemplate men’s underwear (or the lack thereof) and body-conscious clothing in the early 19th century. @sanguinarysanguinity put together a nice illustration of the Georgian military look. 

Martial Masculinities even has a chapter by Julia Banister focused on Lord Uxbridge, in which she writes,

The dandy soldiers of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, dressed in form-fitting breeches and high-waisted jackets, sought to create a masculine identity based on bodily brilliance

The History of Underclothes is a venerable book, originally published in 1951, and I’m not sure I can completely trust it although it has helped me find several primary sources for fashion history. It makes the case that Napoleonic fashion is very much connected to war.

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