Victorian Secret

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

@victoriansecret wanted Ganymede in servant livery 😏

(National Museum of American Illustration)

Source: Reclaiming Lost Ground by Neale McGoldrick & Margaret Crocco

Very similar vibes - this 1899 illustration from Puck of butchy (for the time) lesbians looking like the coolest, hottest women to ever walk the earth

(National Gallery of Ireland)

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Les anglais du voisinage, La vie de château, print by Gihaut Frères after Eugène Louis Lami, 1832.

Collection of Genesee Country Village & Museum, who title it 2 Men Ready to Hunt, Leather Gaiters to the Thigh.

Fashion plate details, 1836-1838, Victoria and Albert Museum collection.

Unfortunately I'm a few days late to make the post this month and a due date is soon. This If I could get to around $50 by the 9th of August, that plus what I currently have would cover the first (and highest late fee) bill for the month.

thank you!!!

Golly!! Thank you so much!!! That gets me past the most dire part of this. :)

John B. Colton seated, wearing hat. Sixth-plate daguerreotype by Edgar Codding, 1850s.

Portrait of a young man c. 1860, hand-colored ambrotype by unknown American photographer.