Briton Rivière RA (14 August 1840 in London – 20 April 1920 in London) was well known for his animal paintings.
I'm a sucker for this sort of stuff so here's a thread with some of his work.
You're allowed to get wet eyes.
Requiescat (1888; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)
Companions in Misfortune
1883
Sympathy
1878
Tick-Tick
1881
Compulsory Education
1887
Cupboard Love
(or as I'd call it; Dogs when you open the treats cupboard).
1881
Jilted
Alternative title(s):
The Letter
1887
Old Playfellows, 1883
The welcome.
His Only Friend, 1871
Charity, 1870.
Fidelity (1869)
The Long Sleep
(This one got to me)
1868
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As you probably noticed, I've been slightly obsessed with Neanderthals lately so when this one popped up I jumped in.
It's an easy to watch documentary that starts with a nice reconstruction of how the bones in the Neanderthal were found.
Pretty soon the documentary starts explaining that the idea of the dumb cave dwelling savage is nonsense.
YES, that's exactly what I like to hear.
Go Neanderthals.
Humans really like thinking everybody who came before them was worse than they were.
I couldn't resist... I collect old photo albums, daily life during the 1920s-40s is one of my specialities and these pictures are just such a gold mine.
I have quite the collection!
Let's have a quick look at the lot I received today.
Thread;
Tiny album with a few loose photos thrown in as extra, very nice!
The flower card;
My dear little mother!
Flowers that May gives us
should tell my mother
what love feels and thinks.
Today and every day.
First album shows a family that really liked to do a lot of hiking in the mountains.
Can't help wondering how those kids got through the war.
These accounts that post nonsense (generally) do this just to get more followers & mentions.
This makes their account more valuable so they can then sell retweets, website traffic or the whole account itself.
Here's a wonderful detailed documentary by @xboxahoy on the subject that also mentions the issue regarding defining what a video game is, etc.
(thanks for sharing, sorry, can't find your tweet so don't know your name)
Enjoy;
As a bonus here a little article I did (and will be updating after seeing that documentary) on the first video game, thanks to the world's first silly people who kept making claims about it ;) fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/05/15/not…
I wish we could go back to the good old days when advertising was classy, tasteful and not trying to sell everything with sex and... oh... oh dear.
How to sell towels to ladies during WW2....
Thread... yes there are more...
They were made in 1943/1944, as far as I know there were no complaints, no controversy, just some distracted readers... I think...
Illustrations by James Bingham, Stevan Dohanos & Fred Ludekens.
I'm of course appalled by the objection of young handsome half naked men.
Even the Tank Corps boys knew how to appreciate Roman baths.
And no, that's not Hitler in the water.