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oldbookillustrations: The old clock on the stairs. William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908. (Source: archive.org)
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ellGrand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna her husband Grand Duke Sergeï Alexandrovitch and her brother Ernest Louis later Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine - 1885
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la-petite-queen: Boy Reading (detail).1861
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Après la Faute - Jean Béraud, 1885 - 1890.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust 

(Source: ifveniceissinking)

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tristesolitude: My piano.
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facesofthevictorianera: Belle Bilton (1889) Photo Source: NPG, London
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the-village-green: Wallace G. Levison, Georgiana Parker Sea Bright, New Jersey, 1870 (via Pictura Poesis, liquidnight)
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