Welcome to all of you inside my little corner where enjoying gardening, home, poetry, leisure, painting and history for a romantic encounter with the past that makes us dream.
martedì 14 luglio 2026
Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life
giovedì 10 aprile 2025
Myles Birket Foster painting the "Domestic Love"
Domestic Love : not in proud palace lulls
Is often seen thy beauty to abide :
Thy dwelling is in lowly cottage walls,
That in the thickets of the woodbine hide :
With hum of bees around, and from the side
Of woody hills some little bubbling spring.
Shining along through banks with harebells dyed ;
And many a bird to warble on the wing,
When Morn her saffron robe o'er heaven and earth doth fling.
At the Cottage Door by Myles Birket Foster
The romantic movement characterizing the 19th century and that permeated all the major arts, first among them poetry and painting, even before musica, has left in the shadow many names that have been bearers of this new vision of Nature, of life, of affections and feelings, either with the use of words or with their brushes. Personally I think it to be right that they also deserve to be named here by ~ My little old world ~ because they have given their contribution to Victorian culture. One of them is Myles Birket (o Birkett) Foster, a British illustrator, watercolourist and engraver who lived in the midst of the Victorian age: I will begin to talk to you about him starting from these verses that I have reported above, verses that he collected and published in 1874 in a text entitled Beauties of English landscape where we can find sonnets and songs among the most representative of Romanticism. The ones I have chosen bear the signature of George Croly (1780-1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and Anglican priest, another little-known name, this time among those who devoted themselves to poetry.
The 1st of May Garlands Day
In the hope to have let you spend some light-hearted time with me, I''m sending you an embrace filled with the scents of our Spring
See you soon ❤
Dany
∽❀∼ MY SPRING SCRAPBOOK ∽❀∼
(Click on the image to read it)
Amore domestico: non è nelle ore flemmatiche dei fieri palazzi
Che spesso si vede la tua bellezza dimorare:
La tua dimora è nelle umili mura di una casa,
Che nei cespugli dei caprifogli si nascondono:
Con il ronzio delle api intorno, e di lato
A colline boscose con qualche piccola sorgente gorgogliante,
Che risplende, lungo le sue rive, delle tinte delle campanule;
E animate da molti uccelli che gorgheggiano in volo,
Quando il mattino lancia la sua veste color zafferano sul cielo e
sulla terra.
IMMAGINE 1 - At the Cottage Door di Myles Birket Foster
Vi invio un abbraccio colmo dei profumi della nostra primavera
A presto ❤
Dany
giovedì 27 luglio 2017
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ~ Maud Humphrey (Bogart), Edwardian American Illustrator.
Born on March 30th, 1868 to a well-to-do family in Rochester, New York, Maud Humphrey performed a precocious, deep talent in the field of arts promoted and refined by evening lessons taken starting from the age of twelve.
Already during her adolescence she accepted her first commissions for black and white illustrations for children books and at the age of eighteen she moved to New York where she enrolled the now recently established Art Students League and then went at the Julian Academy in Paris to refine definitely her skill with the paintbrush.
Maud painted dry watercolors and her favorite subjects were babies or children with a lively and joyful expression that immediately conquered the audience and induced great sellers of food and soaps for children to request her work, often seen on postcards and calendars.
In 1898 she married a fashionable surgeon, Dr.Belmont De Forest Bogart, to whom she gave a son and two girls, and it was just this marriage which further promoted her growth in the artistic field, so that for her work she came to earn more than $ 50,000 a year, far more than double the income of her husband: Maud was engaged for illustrating exceptionally popular children books and advertising for Mellins Baby Food for which the little Humphrey Bogart, her only male child and future Hollywood Star, was her favorite model.
She won a competition from Louis Prang and Company for designing Christmas cards and then she began to work for the New York publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company as an illustrator.
At the peak of her career, Maud Humphrey's name became a very familiar one, and soon she turned definitely to a different audience, that of fashion illustrations becoming, at the end of 1900, the artistic director of The Delineator's female magazine, drawing both prints and patterns, and also drawing patterns demanded by the companies selling them.
Maud was very proud of winning this position since The Delineator also gave her the chance to publish articles about her favorite cause, that of the right to the female suffrage.
Let me also point out that this woman remains in History not only for what she has left us as far as artistic repertoire amongst calendars, greeting cards, postcards, fashion magazines and more than twenty books of stories for children [ amongst which there are Sunshine of Little Children (1888); Babes of the Nations (1889); Baby Sweethearts (1890); Bonnie Little People (1890); Ideals of Beauty (1891); Famous Rhymes from Mother Goose (1891); The Light Princess (1893); The Book of Pets (1893); Little Playmates (1894); Old Youngsters (1897); Little Grown-Ups (1897); The Littlest Ones (1898); Little Rosebuds (1898); Sleepy-Time Stories (1899); Gallant Little Patriots (1899); Children of the Revolution (1900); Little Continentals (1900); Little Folk of '76 (1900); Young American Speaker (c. 1900) ] but because in her we may find the change it was living the female figure at the end of the Victorian period, the emancipation which, already starting from the education she received as a young girl to end with her participation in the movement of suffragettes, shows us how it was going to promote women and femininity, rediscovered after being suppressed by 'Victorianism'.
And now, just for you, some images of hers I love most:
the title (and link) of one of the twenty books that she illustrated which you can browse online, download on your PC or even print, if you wish it:
A treasury of stories, jingles and rhymes. With one hundred and forty vignette illustrations in half-tone (1894)
and some of the fanciful images she created for The Delineator since she became a collaborator of its, never forgetting to put children both in covers and in patterns every now and then.
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Nata il 30 di marzo del 1868 in un'importante famiglia di Rochester, New York, Maud Humphrey diede esibizione di un precoce, marcato talento in ambito artistico promosso ed affinato da lezioni serali prese a partire dall'età di dodici anni.
Già durante la sua adolescenza ella accettò le sue prime commissioni per illustrazioni in bianco e nero per libri per l'infanzia e a diciotto anni si trasferì A New York dove si iscrisse alla Art Students League di recente istituzione e quindi alla Julian Academy di Parigi per affinare definitivamente la propria abilità con il pennello.
- immagine 2 sulla sinistra: Maud ritratta in giovane età - Maud dipingeva acquerelli a secco ed i suoi soggetti preferiti erano bimbi in fasce o fanciulli dall'espressione vivace e gioiosa che conquistarono immediatamente il pubblico ed indussero i venditori di alimenti e di saponi per bambini a richiedere i suoi lavori, visti sovente su cartoline e calendari.
Nel 1898 si sposò con un chirurgo in vista all'epoca, il Dr.Belmont De Forest Bogart, al quale diede un figlio e due fanciulle, e fu proprio questo matrimonio a promuovere ulteriormente la sua crescita, tanto che per il suo lavoro giunse a guadagnare oltre 50.000 dollari l'anno, molto più del doppio del reddito del marito: Maud era impegnata nell'illustrare libri eccezionalmente popolari e nella pubblicità per la Mellins Baby Food per la quale il piccolo Humphrey Bogart, il suo unico bimbo maschio e futuro attore hollywoodiano, era il modello prediletto.
Vinse un concorso indetto dalla Louis Prang and Company per la progettazione di cartoline di Natale per poi cominciare a lavorare per l'editore di New York Frederick A. Stokes Company come illustratrice.
Al culmine della sua carriera, quello di Maud Humphrey divenne un nome decisamente familiare, e presto si rivolse ad un pubblico diverso, quello delle illustrazioni di moda e, sul finire dell'anno 1900, divenne direttore artistico della rivista femminile The Delineator, disegnando sia stampe che modelli, nonché schemi di campione per sartorie richiesti da società che commerciavano cartamodelli.
- immagine 3 sulla destra: Maud ritratta con il suo piccolo Humphrey - Maud fu decisamente orgogliosa di aver conquistata questa posizione visto che il The Delineator le dava inoltre la possibilità di pubblicare articoli sulla sua causa preferita, ossia il quella del diritto femminile al suffragio.
Ed ora, per voi, alcune delle sue immagini che più amo:
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il titolo ( ed il link ) di uno dei venti libri che ella illustrò che potete sfogliare online, scaricare sul vostro pc o stampare, qualora lo desideraste:
A treasury of stories, jingles and rhymes. With one hundred and forty vignette illustrations in half-tone (1894)
ed alcune delle eleganti immagini di cui corredò il The Delineator da quando ne divenne collaboratrice, senza mai dimenticare di inserire di quando in quando fanciulli, sia nelle copertine che nei cartamodelli.
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