tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716892415828794074.post6580791857597293548..comments2024-03-26T13:03:33.696+00:00Comments on British Art: Charles Hunt - Dressing UpHermeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716892415828794074.post-35020517624952227922009-08-07T08:03:33.851+01:002009-08-07T08:03:33.851+01:00Hi Lucy,
not sure I can answer your very good poin...Hi Lucy,<br />not sure I can answer your very good points but by coincidence I am quite interested in Steampunk fiction and just to show it still goes on (though not by me):<br /><br />http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=15347.0Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716892415828794074.post-16519958959061947902009-08-07T07:55:23.030+01:002009-08-07T07:55:23.030+01:00It was complicated though.
It's a long time s...It was complicated though.<br /><br />It's a long time since I read Cranford by Mrs Gaskell but I think I remember that one of the sorrows of the women in the story was that the brother of one of them was banished abroad for dressing up as a woman for a joke.<br /><br />I'm wondering whether this is why the boy in this painting is given a moustache as well as feminine clothing . . . to show he isn't really effeminate - or whether the opposite is true, that the mix of masculine and feminine was a daring choice of subject for a Victorian painting.<br /><br />LucyLucy Corranderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743561298706555813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716892415828794074.post-31150091870139112562009-08-07T07:44:04.439+01:002009-08-07T07:44:04.439+01:00Not quite like this. Bur amateur dramatics and lit...Not quite like this. Bur amateur dramatics and little plays were a Big thing for the Victorians and earlier. Its central to the plot of Mansfield Park for instance.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6716892415828794074.post-87098137933372121972009-08-07T07:18:16.972+01:002009-08-07T07:18:16.972+01:00Complete with moustache!
What fun!
Could have be...Complete with moustache!<br /><br />What fun!<br /><br />Could have been surreal but isn't.<br /><br />Haven't seen a painting like it.<br /><br />LucyLucy Corranderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743561298706555813noreply@blogger.com