Thrilled my Georgian Embroidery Patterns in the Lady's Magazine (1770-1819) has been published on open access in Textile History about one of the most important/ extensive archives we have for dress knowledge/women's creativity in the 18c/19c. #needleworkwww.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article analyses the c. 650 needlework patterns issued in the Lady’s Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex between 1770 and 1819. The patterns were vital to the periodical’s ap...
This is Buddo. The earliest depiction of a human figure found anywhere in the British Isles. It is made out of whale bone and can be found in the Stromness Museum on Orkney. At 4,900 years old it comes from a time when mammoths still walked the Earth 🦣 . #neolithic#Orkney
I just had to fix it! Something was wrong on the internet!!
Lol yup - my edit, written about 5 minutes ago!
I may have solved it! If we're to work from the assumption that the painting does have a family link, I think it's this: bsky.app/profile/smea...
I think I may have an answer! There was another Alexander von Humbolt - specifically Hans-Paul Wilhelm Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt-Dachroeden, great-great-nephew of the scientist. He was born 1858 and his mother Hermine was widowed in 1867, which seems just right for this portrait.
No worries at all!! I don't know the German context, but generally by that period it would be extremely extremely weird to paint someone in entirely the wrong period of clothing. So I think this isn't who it's claimed to be!
I was thinking it was about that period too, but if it is 1870, it can't be Humboldt and his mother - unless it's a completely ahistorical portrait! Humboldt was born in 1769.
Link to it on wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al...