Another fresh offering of this week’s Breakfast Links, noteworthy tidbits gathered from other blogs, web sites, news stories, and museums that we've discovered wandering around the Twitterverse:
• Executed 26 September 1778: James “Sandy Flash” Fitzpatrick, a Revolutionary War rogue with Robin Hood inclinations: http://bit.ly/nIXBGd
• 1911 Etiquette book to download! Do you have your visiting cards ready? http://ow.ly/6IItS
• The complicated relationships between Thomas Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles Skelton 1748-1782 & her 1/2 sister Sally Hemmings http://bit.ly/mZFpJ4
• From the Smithsonian: Pregnant in uniform http://ow.ly/1eQG4y
• Treebeard from Lord of the Rings spotted in Nonsuch Park: http://bit.ly/nwDJJp
• Map of a Woman's Heart from 1833. I love 'Flirting Corner' http://tinyurl.com/3v56h27
• 'Crying to Heaven for Revenge': The Bleeding Corpse and its Significance in History -http://wp.me/p14Gvd-g7
• Terrifically silly: 'Man's Life' Magazine, 1950s -http://tinyurl.com/5w9ynmb
• History of NYC's St. Patrick's cathedral, James Renwick's magnificent Fifth Ave landmark: http://bit.ly/mPMzgu
• Let me lead you by the hand to an Elizabethan Garden at Kenilworth Castle - http://bit.ly/fQfbqi
• Fabulous1959 Roger Vivier kingfisher feather evening shoes: http://fb.me/10h1RCR1s
• An 18th c apothecary's box, a veritable cornucopia for the hypochondriac! http://post.ly/3Okwt
• Beautiful early Modern Dance videos of Loie Fuller in color & Isadora Duncan in costume! http://bit.ly/qIRevf
• Sparkle by candlelight: Unusual metallic embroidery on white muslin 18th c gowns: http://bit.ly/nCGyj9
• The Brighton Pavilion and the Dress for Excess Exhibition, http://wp.me/pGJsu-1Nt
• Historic Dress of the Day: Two-piece taffeta dress, mid 19th c, from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: http://fb.me/DGEheivz
• Wonder what's behind the rope and up the Frick's Grand Staircase or in the basement? http://fb.me/FioOT330
• Anne Boleyn's psalter made between 1529-1532. The text is entirely in French, which Ann ready fluently: http://deck.ly/~8JBXX
• Restocking the shelves of elegant 1766 Robert Adam-designed library at Osterley Park: http://bit.ly/oJakpg
• “Nickum-poop: A fool, a silly sort” - Snippets from a Rogue's Dictionary http://bit.ly/ol1dHr
Above: At Breakfast, by Laurits Andersen Ring, 1898
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3 comments:
I just love all your links and look forward to all sorts of interesting things every Sunday. Thank you for doing this!
the thing i was wondering about that map of the woman's heart...what is Tambourton? it's in the "love of dress" area...and is next to Cashmere and Satin.
any idea?
Thanks, Kat - glad you enjoy the links!
Edgetor, I wondered about that 'tambourton', too.Though I couldn't find it listed in any of my historic fashion/fabric books, I'm guessing that it's one more kind of luxury fabric, now forgotten. Tambour-work was a kind of embroidery popular in the 18th-early 19th centuries, so it's likely there is some connection. Anyone else have a better answer
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