Doktor Schnabel von New Albany, graphite on bristol, by Brian R. Williams. Via Juxtapoz.
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“The M’s at Ems,” by Rossetti Dante Gabriel, 1869. Image (larger available) via all things amazing.
Via British Museum: “The designer and writer William Morris (1834-1896) accompanied his wife Jane to the German spa town of Ems in order to improve her health. This drawing of the couple by Rossetti was enclosed in a letter to Jane with the comment ‘The accompanying cartoon will prepare you for the worst - which ever that may be, the seven tumblers or the 7 volumes’. In other words, drinking vast quantities of spa water was likely to be less traumatic than listening to William Morris reading from his lengthy new book The Earthly Paradise (published 1868).”
There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their traumas. They’re aristocrats.
“The Known Practice of Using Domesticated Bears as Cushions While Drinking,” by Michael Hsiung.
Via swissmiss.
