1893

When looking back into the past, it’s important (but difficult) to remember that for everyone concerned it was just the present, especially at times like these when technology was making the world strikingly different. For Americans born into the civil war era, the gilded age of the 1880s and 1890s must have been a dizzying …

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1892 in Art

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – At The Moulin Rouge Anders Zorn – A Portrait of the Daughters of Ramón Subercaseaux Thomas Eakins – The Concert Singer Émile Bernard – Breton Women at a Wall Félix Vallotton – Bathers on a Summer Evening G. Caillebotte – Nasturces Almeida Júnior – Reading Frederic Leighton – The Garden of …

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George and Weedon Grossmith – The Diary of a Nobody

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole of its day, The Diary Of A Nobody is perhaps less hilarious than it was back in 1892, but it’s no less readable and seems to evoke its age better than any of the supposedly naturalist contemporary fiction. By reading it I have learned that: Dull, respectable men in …

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Pauvre Pierrot – the first animated film

Cinema was even more a sideshow attraction than recorded sound in 1892. In pre-Lumiere France, cinematic pioneer Émile Reynaud was projecting slides with moving images in front of painted backgrounds at his Théâtre Optique in Paris. In a sense this had been done for hundreds of years with magic lantern shows, but Reynaud’s innovation was …

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper

Can’t remember when I first hear that yellow wallpaper sent you round the bend, but I would have been very young – then later, hearing that it was a famous short story, I imagined it was one of the anthologised horror stories I liked when I was 13 or so. But it’s not. It’s a …

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Elsewhere in 1892

Firsts Ellis Island opens. Rudolf Diesel applies for a patent for the Diesel engine. The Carnegie Steel Company, Liverpool Football Club and Newcastle United F.C. are founded. Abercrombie & Fitch is established. The “Pledge of Allegiance” is first recited by students in U.S. public schools. The Nutcracker ballet with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered. Viruses …

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1891 in Art

  George Frederic Watts — After the Deluge Giovanni Segantini – Midday in the Alps Henri Rousseau — Tiger in a Tropical Storm Emily Maria Eardley (‘Milly’) Childers – Hugh Culling Eardley Childers Paul Gauguin — Tahitian Women on the Beach Philip Hermogenes Calderon — St. Elizabeth of Hungary Pierre Puvis de Chavannes — The …

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