Waterhouse, Gather ye Rosebuds while ye may, 1908
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John William Waterhouse (Italian born-British, 1849-1917)
The Enchanted Garden, 1917
Illustrates a story from the Decameron where a man magically conjures a spring garden in the dead of winter. Unfinished.
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captain K.P hob and delloso de la rue as lamia and the soldier by john william waterhouse.
if hob has dreamt of rue, I think the dreams may look something like this; haunted by peonies. another beautiful painting by waterhouse this time that I felt the need to fit these two into. I cannot wait for episode 6.
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i finished the first 3 last spring and then completely gave up on this project until i completed number 4 & 5 this week. i’m kind of running out of paintings with easy poses to photoshop together but i’m gonna keep looking! (here’s my little collection of lesbian montages)
1. Evelyn de Morgan’s The Prisoner (1907-08) with Joanna Mary Boyce’s portrait of Fanny Eaton (1859)
2. Waterhouse’s The Awakening of Adonis (c.1900) and John Simmons’s Titania Sleeping in the Moonlight Protected by her Fairies
3. Portrait of a Lady by Natale Schiavoni (c.1820) with Nathaniel Sichel’s In the Time of Roses
4. A painting by Eugene de Blaas and L’Espoir by Auguste Leroux
5. La Blanche et la Noire by Félix Valloton (1913) with Portrait of Madeleine by Marie-Guillemine Benoist (1800)
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Touch of Victoriana-fae with this Waterhouse corset from Retro Fairy & boots by American Duchess 🪷
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My piece for @novaandmali ‘s Classics But Make It Gay Vol. II -- with Waterhouse’s the Siren as my classic. :)
You can buy a print version of my piece on my INPRNT
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Waterhouse, The Danaides detail, 1903
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Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse, 1887 / "Vigilante Shit" by Taylor Swift
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Hair. (French Folks Traditions) part 2 : love magic.
Detachable from the body, they retain its vital force. Thus, in the 17th century according to Thiers, to "make themselves loved by their husband", women took their cut hair, offered it three times in a row to the church altar with a burning candle, and then carry them on their heads.
It is common for seamstresses to place one of their hair in the hem of the wedding dress they are making, to quickly find a husband. (Brittany.)
Giving your loved one a lock of hair is not necessarily a good idea. In Picardy, it is said that the power of the bond between the two lovers would be such that one and the other would never be able to separate again, even to carry out their daily affairs.
To make yourself loved by the man you want to have as your husband, you have to, in Paris, get 3 hairs of your loved one, braid them with 3 of your own, make a little crown that you wear bare on our chest by means of a fairly long cord passed around the neck. Once on the eve of our wedding, you will have to lock this talisman in a medallion and wear it as long as you want to be loved.
(A bit the same idea as in the Grand Albert, where it involves making a tied bouquet with 5 hairs of your loved one and 3 of ours.)
For a husband or wife to be faithful, one must take a lock of their hair, burn it and spread the ashes on the wood of their bed after rubbing it with honey. Repeat the operation as necessary.
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Pic : Waterhouse.
[ Excerpts taken from M.C Delmas in Dictionnaire de la France Mystérieuse. ]
Part 1 here.
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