William Blake Richmond (British/English, 1842-1921) • Mrs Luke Ionides (1848-1929) • 1882 • Virginia & Albert Museum, London

“this would kill a medieval peasant” “that would kill a medieval peasant” 

listen those light-up faux branches and flower sprays from mid-range mall kiosks would give a Victorian aesthete coma-inducing orgasms and that is a fact

Cream Cotton House Dress, Late 1880s.

Aesthetic Movement Style.

Augusta Auctions.

Musings of a Museum Professional.

Oh don’t mind me, I’ve just fallen down a research rabbit-hole and I can’t get out. 

‘Peonies Blown in the Wind’ window (1886) by John La Farge (American, 1835–1910). Made for the studio of British painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema.

Glass and lead.

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

Humour in Verse by Annie French (1872-1965)

French was one of the "Glasgow Girls," a group of women who studied at the Glasgow School of Art and subsequently worked in the city around the turn of the 20th Century. This appears to have been a sketch and scrapbook, filled with words and images both drawn and pasted in. French described it on the title page as "JINGLES/ OVER/ THE/ YEARS."

Sarah Paxton Bell Dodson, Honey of the Hymettus, 1891, oil/canvas (DeMell Jacobsen Foundation, Jacksonville)

Arthur Silver (designer) for Liberty & Co. Ltd.

Peacock feathers, furnishing fabric

1887

Edward Poynter, Mary Constance Wyndham (Lady Elcho), 1886

Mary leans back on a chaise, gazing into the distance. She is surrounded by aestheticism's accoutrements: a japonaiserie screen; blue and white ceramic vases. Her hair is fashionably shirred; her waist, in her plain mustard-yellow gown, tiny (the envy of her friends, she said proudly). One hand loosely holds a sketchbook, another book lies unopened before her. She looks deep in thought: a beauty with greater things on her mind. [A]ged twenty-four, a mother of two, [...] just a few months after the death of her beloved friend Laura Tennant and while her relationship with Arthur Balfour was growing ever deeper. Mary's family later criticized this portrait as far too solemn. Yet perhaps in Mary's forlorn expression Poynter had seen some of the turmoil in which Mary found herself at this stage of her life. — Claudia Renton, Those Wild Wyndhams

Design Drawing by Christopher Dresser, Dated ca. 1883. Similar to the pattern on this vase by Dresser at the V&A Museum. Medium is graphite, ink and gouache on paper.

(Source: metmuseum.org)

These slides talk about the aesthetic movement and shows how different to styles changed from classic victorian clothing

NEED TO SAY THAT-

idk if it’s just me but Oscar Wilde is such an inspiration. I often image myself talking to him bout beauty, life, poetry and champagne or reading his own sonnets to the moon

he helped me A LOT  I wanna thank him so much

so guys let’s recreate the aesthetic movement

all of u can join <3

we want Oscar back 

Peach Pink Tea Dress, ca. 1894.

Aesthetic Movement Style.

Augusta Auctions.

Salamine Vase, 1878, Sèvres porcelain, decorated by Jules-François Célos

Musée de la Céramique de Rouen

I believe the name refers to the Greek island of Salamis in Attica

Earthenware charger (British, 1876) by F. Gadesden.

Image and text information courtesy The Met.

George A. Schastey, Neo-empire style armchair, ca. 1883.

Chair (and its mate) shown in the drawing room of the Nickerson Mansion in Chicago. The mansion is now the Driehaus Museum. The chairs remain in the museum's collection and can be seen in the restored drawing room today.