A rare color photograph by Albert Kahn of the original Moulin Rouge in Paris, a year before it burned down, 1914

View of Lee, North Devon by Samuel Palmer 1834

The Rising of the Skylark by Samuel Palmer c. 1839

Annette Kellerman in ‘Queen Sea Of The Sea’ 1918

Hercules, 1921 John Singer Sargent

Mrs Abbott Lawrence Rotch - John Singer Sargent

Diving

Bleak March by Frederick Hall

In the Fields by Frederick Hall 1886

Fay Compton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Compton

George Dunlop Leslie - Mollie, In Silence I Stood Your Unkindness To Hear (1882)

George Dunlop Leslie, Her First Place, n.d.

1915

Frank Bramley "A Truce" (1912)

Sam Zalud_Ostrich Costume - 1918

LILY MORRIS: Why am I Always the Bridesmaid

England, Edwardian Era around 1900 (enhanced video)

Berkshire, Maidenhead, Bolters Lock c1906

from the collection of Margaret Chapman.

Frederic Leighton, Mrs. James Guthrie (1864/1865), detail

Frederic Leighton, The Spirit of the Summit, 1894

Melody by Alfred Elmore

A young mill worker, unknown city in the United States, 1918

William Powell Frith: Charles Dickens (1859)

William Powell Frith Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman 1865

Mary Pickford advert

Natural Princess - Sophie Anderson 1881

Take The Fair Face Of Woman. Sophie Anderson, 1869

Dog Balancing on two chairs, about 1861, Lady Clementina Hawarden

Thomas Cooper Gotch, The Child Enthroned, 1894

Thomas Cooper Gotch, The nymph, now again she flies aloof

1851 Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace

The Time Of The Lilacs, Sophie Gengembre Anderson

The Head of a Nymph by Sophie Gengembre Anderson

The Dicky Bird and the Owl - Victorian songs and ballads

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dicky-Bird-Owl-Victorian-ballads/dp/B002KGVBE6/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1379662264&sr=1-6&keywords=victorian

A Plume of Smoke by Thomas Kennington, ca 1890

Contemplation by Thomas Kennington, ca 1900

Meditation Thomas Benjamin Kennington

The Victorians were smarter than us, study suggests

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10053977/The-Victorians-were-smarter-than-us-study-suggests.html

William Powell Frith The Signal 1853

William Powell Frith (1819-1909). Pope makes love to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

'The Crossing Sweeper' (1893) by William Powell Frith

First slide

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130923/Historians-discover-worlds-childrens-slide-built-90-years-ago-plank-wood.html

John William Waterhouse: Lamia

John William Waterhouse, Miss Betty Pollock

Isabella, or the Pot of Basil by Joseph Severn 1877

The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots by Joseph Severn c. 1850

The Albert Bridge over the River Thames by R. M. Ordish, 1871-3. Suspension members overhauled by Sir Jospeh Bazalgette, 1884

Frederic Leighton, The Feigned Death of Juliet, 1856-58

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896), Winding the skein (Detail)

Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

http://victorianweb.org/science/lyell.html

Frank Dicksee Confession 1896