Category: 1880s

À un dîner d’athées, ca. 1883

Félicien Rops :: À un dîner d’athées (The Dinner of the Atheists). Graphite, pencil and brown chalk, partly wiped, erased and scratched, on white primed paper, drawn up. Around 1883-85. The present sheet belongs to the group of drawings that the Belgian artist Félicien Rops created from around 1883 for the short story collection Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808-1889) | src Bassenge Auktionen

V. Riparia sauvage, ca. 1880

Emm Isard :: Extrémité de rameau du V. Riparia sauvage, ca. 1880 | Shoot end of the riverbank grape (vitis riparia), ca. 1880. Albumen print from wet collodion negative, mounted on cardboard. | src spallart “A natural-scientific picture that – by concentrating on the object in front of a uniform background – does also meet the esthetic needs long before Blossfeldt.” quoted from source

The Siamese Twins, ca. 1880

William Henry Jackson :: The Siamese Twins, Garden of the Gods, ca. 1880. Albumen print. Half of stereographic card. | src and hi-res The History of Photography