Victorian Druids

[helwen]

Realizing all of my ideas for Steampunk outfits are nature-inspired, decided to re-visit depictions of druids in the 18th-19th c.

Found this:Wikipedia entry on Druids (meh), but has some pics from Victorian era

And these:
A Druidess 1868, by Alexandre Cabanel, and The Druidess, by Armand LaRoche (19th c)

This is my favorite, but is unfortunately not available:
A Young Druidess, by Carl Haag (1878) This is an etching based on his original, a painting. Cannot find the painting anywhere online, nor at which museum it is located.

And, not like the one in the etching but still kinda cool, a laurel wreath. (Thanks Danabren!)

Comments

[danabren.livejournal.com]

The Young Druidess print is charming, much more interesting visually than the first two links. Also, the ebay link is actually to the Young Druidess print again.

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Yup! Wish I could find the painting, but still no luck. I did send a query to the Royal Watercolourers Society, in case they might have that in their records (Haag was a member for a while). Meantime, guess I'll have to come up with my own colors...

Thanks for the note about eBay link - fixed!

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Isn't fixed!

(stupid HTML)

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Um.... it works for me....

[danabren.livejournal.com]

Cool - now it works. It was still coming up as Amazon earlier. Maybe I needed to refresh or something.

YAY FIXED!

[helwen.livejournal.com]

Well, looked at it and tested it, and it works for me. Dunno, sorry.

Anyway, it's the one with the pearls, crystals and gold leaves.

But I don't know about actually getting it... I'm considering something laurel-wreath-inspired for my white outfit now though.