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Queen Victoria in life and Queen Victoria in a drawing by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Queen Victoria in life and Queen Victoria in a drawing by Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Oh, these British artists

Old photograph: a nun in a dark veil sits at left; at right a dark-haired woman lies on pillows, eyes closed. Behind them are carved furniture and floral wallpaper.

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Nun beside a reclining woman's bed in a room with a carved cabinet

NB! · Cinema · Observations

Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr" of 1932 is an indisputable classic of the horror film

Carl Theodor Dreyer's "Vampyr" of 1932 is an indisputable classic of the horror film, and a treasure-house of the earliest special effects besides. If you are in the mood for a certain refined dread and a Victorian chill, I recommend it for your viewing.

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An Eighteenth-Century Barbie: The English Poet Christopher Anstey and His Daughter in a Portrait by William Hoare

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The only videoconference I would actually like to attend

Open wooden doors reveal a hall with painted walls, a mosaic floor and marble statues; beyond, grey columns and a red carpet line a staircase hall.

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Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting: view through open doors to the staircase

Page of Russian text with an illustration: a boy in a yellow shirt leads a pigtailed girl by the hand, a building with a Chinese-style roof at right. The text names Wang, Liu, Chen and Min.

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Children's book page: brother and sister walk toward a factory, colour illustration

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A Hundred Years On, and the Ministry of Justice Still Hasn't Got to the Bottom of It

Page of an old album: two Japanese girls in kimonos in an oval frame and a portrait of a curly-haired Hungarian woman in a hat. Russian captions; the publisher is Russky Listok.

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Album of Beauties of the Whole World: Japanese Girls from Tokyo and a Hungarian Woman

Worn cover of an album from 1903 with the title, red poppies and an Art Nouveau tulip ornament.

NB! · Archive · Moscow · Observations · Mores

Album of beauties of the whole world, published by the newspaper “Russky Listok” in 1903

Album of the Beauties of the Whole World from the editors of the newspaper Russkiy Listok, 1903. These are precisely the world's beauties as I had always pictured them

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Albert Einstein Sunbathing

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