“Here again we have the uniform of an officer in peace and war—swagger and gold lace on the one side, and stern simplicity and kharki on the other.”
From “Punch Among the Planets,” 1890
British cavalryman carousing, 1826
Propaganda Cartoon picturing Napoleon and Von Blucher sword fighting.
Death in the dissecting room. Thomas Rowlandson, 1815-1816.
WWI Entente Propaganda - Triomphe des Alliés 1916 Dogs of War
(Source: wahnwitzig)
via NYPL
Readers and reading were sources of constant interest to artists in the Romantic period. The young woman shown here holds Matthew Gregory Lewis’s “terror-gothic” The Monk (1796). A phantasmagoria of murder, suicide, corruption, and incest, it is one of the few novels for which nineteenth-century disapproval might still seem justified, and it was blamed for considerable moral degradation. The subject of Comfort heats her posterior along with her imagination.
There ain’t nothin’ feel so good as a warm butt with a phantasmagoria
The Four Stages of Cruelty; The Reward of Cruelty. William Hogarth, 1751.
The Wonderful Charms of a Red Coat and Cockade by Thomas Rowlandson, 1785-1790
