Steampunk, Indiana Jones, my mother, a banana, a saltshaker, Mary Shelley and a ballpoint sketch meet the 1887 volume of Cassels Magazine:
It’s falling apart, but I love that book – there are articles on how to stop roosters crowing and which dental schools will admit women, on breakfast beverages, the season’s fashions (What to Wear: Chit Chat on Dress), meteoric resin, new hansom cabs, lead-lined tea chests, extending ladders (a peculiar fascination with these) and stories with titles such as ‘Vere Thornleigh’s Inheritance; or, “Life’s Fitful Fever” and “A Man of the Name of John” whose elegantly bustled heroines swoon in woodcuts captioned cryptically “I dearly love playing the lady bountiful”, “a well-arranged room” or “the stranger was soon elucidating the mysteries of a political caricature”.
Here is another based on a pencil sketch (the separate image of the hand and gun is my favourite):
And, for a touch of colour, my further adventures in Inkscape (imagine a large clockwork robot to the far right):
(Comments and criticism are as ever welcome).
Very original and interesting.
Great and interesting!!
Thanks, arseafartsea (heh) and Marilia!
So was this consciously an illo of my Lady of the Golden Wood story idea?
Cause that’s her: pose, hat, dress, everything but the steampunk electicity coming out of the pistol.
Or was this another situation where great minds think alike?
:)
Great minds… fools’ thoughts…
good stuff! i like the profile of the face in the red shadow of the last one.
What fun! I’m a sucker for those 19th c. manuals too.
Lots of fun. I could sit there and read till its falling apart. Which actually wouldn’t take long.