Enrico Caruso performing “Vesti la Giubba” from the opera Pagliacci. Caruso’s 1904 recording of of this was the first sound recording to sell a million copies
Would you by any chance know of the furniture that illustrators would use in Victorian England? I am specifically looking for a studio chair to go with a drafting or drawing table. Thank you! I've been looking around with little luck :(
Sorry it took me a few days to see this. I haven’t been on Tumblr much in the past few weeks, but that will change soon.
As to your question, I’m not sure. I love Victorian Era furniture, but I concentrate on clothing. I would suggest looking at vintage images of office furniture. I usually go to Getty Images or the Library of Congress American Memory websites when looking for images of things I don’t know much about. Or you could go straight to the Victoria and Albert Museum collections search page to find examples. Sorry I couldn’t be of more help, but I think one of these sources should help.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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| — | Sherlock Holmes in A Case of Identity |
I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.
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| — | Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet |
They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,’ he remarked with a smile. ‘It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.
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| — | Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet |
I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for?
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| — | Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four |
Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth
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| — | Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four |
I never guess. It is a shocking habit,—destructive to the logical faculty.
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| — | Sherlock Holmes from The Sign of Four |
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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| — | Sherlock Holmes from the Bascombe Valley Mystery |
Having an “All the Sherlocks” Marathon
Started with Basil Rathbone, moved on to Jeremy Brett (will be coming back to Jeremy Brett) and am about to start Robert Downey, Jr. After Game of Shadows, I’m whipping out the Cumberbatch. [That didn’t sound quite right.]
All the Sherlocks. Well, all the best Sherlocks. I’m on a quest to decide which is my favourite and I must gather evidence, mustn’t I?
‘There is nothing like first-hand evidence.’
-A Study in Scarlet
‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.’
-A Scandal in Bohemia
Thomas Chambers. “View of Cold Spring and Mount Taurus from Fort Putnam,” 1845-1855, in Fenimore Art Museum
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[via] Richard Armitage at ‘dwarf camp’ for The Hobbit.
That is the single sexiest thing iv ever seen in my life.
Oh my… the arms, the arms!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a125bb4392fa5efcd6e205dddecde82c/tumblr_mfx8dcCP5D1r4pwt8o1_r1_500.gif)
[via] Richard Armitage at ‘dwarf camp’ for The Hobbit.That is the single sexiest thing iv ever seen in my life.
Oh my… the arms, the arms!
nypl:
Happy first Caturday of 2013! In honor of January, we are sharing this magazine poster from January 1896 of a publication called “The Black Cat.” It’s currently in our Art and Architecture Collection in the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Enjoy, and happy Caturday!
