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The Festival of Grime Collection #5
Another collection of pre-carnival floats. Notice how, alongside various insects, they also celebrated the pig. At risk of sounding condescending to our dear readers, it is no coincidence that they also chose a pig to represent their struggle for survival in an age when making it past the age of five was a miracle. At…
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #6
Today we are going to archive the next set of Mr Pugh’s archive which he called “Sinners” For obvious reasons. As is customary, we have also included several reference photographs. However, we don’t know if these influenced the paintings in this particular collection. We shall have more information on these paintings next time. TVUP
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The Siblings of Saint Rupert Collection (Occult Artwork Edition) #9
Today it’s business as usual. Since the last Siblings collection, we have only discovered a small but important piece of information on these paintings and their esoteric symbolism. Yet, given the time of year, we thought it would be a good opportunity to archive them. Plus we’re bored of Christmas already. We have combed over…
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Miscellaneous Christmas Photographs Collection (Naughty Christmas Elves Edition) #2
A kind reader sent us a box of photographs that appear to be “naughty” Christmas elves. They are pretend mugshots with their personal information. There are brief details of their individual crimes on the rear side. We have no idea who created them and for what purpose, but we think they are fantastic. We hope…
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Miscellaneous Christmas Photographs Collection (Festive Decorations Edition) #1
Since archiving some of our Christmas photographs, we have been inundated by our readers sending their own Victorian era photographs. They don’t quite fit into any existing series, but we have verified some of them and we agree that they are worthy of inclusion. So for consistency we have clumped them together in a miscellaneous…
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Mr Baker the Blind Toymaker Collection (Festive Toys Edition) #4
Today we continue with more fascinating images of Mr Baker’s toys. I particularly like the ‘Merry Christmoth’ in photograph #3. However, the festive insect costume in photograph #10 really sings with that Christmas cheer. Enjoy! TVUP
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Mr Baker the Blind Toymaker Collection (Festive Toys Edition) #3
We return to the thoroughly strange handmade toys by Mr Baker. This time we thought you’d appreciate some good old-fashioned creepy Victorian Christmas toys; the type of toys that hide at the bottom of the box, waiting to terrify some little nippers and ruin their Christmas. We have also included a photograph of Mr Baker…
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Dada Before Dada in Victorian Soho, London Collection #2
In the last post we mentioned the Inhumanists Manifesto; a fascinating read for anyone interested in the avant-garde. One can’t help but notice the stark contrast between the tone of the manifesto and the perceived stuffiness of the Victorian era. As we can see from the art itself, profanity is scattered everywhere and used almost…
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Dada Before Dada in Victorian Soho, London Collection #1
We’re thoroughly ashamed to have taken so long to digitally archive this art movement. Our research shows that this unconventional collective was a precursor to Dadaism. Its name was Inhumanism with a manifesto to boot. This collective was also born in Soho, London. The same place would see a postwar boom in bohemian art, theatre…
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #5
This is the last Pugh collection for a short while. We have many more paintings to archive in the future which exemplify different phases of Pugh’s life including apocalyptic visions, self portraits and his final dissent into madness. Have a fantastic weekend and we’ll be back with more fascinating images soon. TVUP
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