Lady Ottoline Morrell photographed by her husband, Phillip Morrell, 1909.
I have never seen her with her hair down, and she looks like she’s in some sort of nightgown. Doesn’t she just look like a perfect Pre-Raphaelite beauty here?
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G.A.V. (Alexander, *1931, and Valery, 1936-2009) Traugot (Russian).
Kiss (illustration to the Song of Songs).
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Pandora (1881). Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Dutch, 1836-1912). Watercolour.
Sideways against a seascape, red haired and naked, Pandora gazes down at the urn. A moulded sphinx on the unopened lid of the urn is turned in her direction. The crown of hyacinths about her head identifies Pandora as an innocent Greek maiden. The presence of the sphinx at which she gazes with such curiosity suggests a personality on the cusp, on the verge of gaining some harmful knowledge that will henceforth negate her uncomplicated qualities.
Bass saxtuba in E-flat by Adolphe Sax, Musical Instruments
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: brass
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