May 12, 2012
oldbookillustrations: He read, knitted, and pulled behind him an economical device, in which he cooked his dinner. From Le monde tel qu’il sera (The world as it will be), by Émile Souvestre, illustrated by Bertall, O. Penguilly L’Haridon and Prosper Saint Germain, Paris, 1846. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

He read, knitted, and pulled behind him an economical device, in which he cooked his dinner.

From Le monde tel qu’il sera (The world as it will be), by Émile Souvestre, illustrated by Bertall, O. Penguilly L’Haridon and Prosper Saint Germain, Paris, 1846.

(Source: archive.org)

4:12pm
(Notes: 118)
  
Filed under: bertall domestic arts 
May 12, 2012
oldbookillustrations: A fashionable woman in the year 3000. Bertall, from Le monde tel qu’il sera (The world as it will be), by Émile Souvestre, illustrated by Bertall, O. Penguilly L’Haridon and Prosper Saint Germain, Paris, 1846. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

A fashionable woman in the year 3000.

Bertall, from Le monde tel qu’il sera (The world as it will be), by Émile Souvestre, illustrated by Bertall, O. Penguilly L’Haridon and Prosper Saint Germain, Paris, 1846.

(Source: archive.org)

1:41pm
(Notes: 171)
  
Filed under: gyneocracy bertall 
June 23, 2011
oldbookillustrations: Parisian street performers. Bertall (Charles Albert d’Arnoux), from Le Diable à Paris (The Devil in Paris), vol. 2, collective work, Paris (Hetzel) 1868. Via archive.org.

oldbookillustrations:

Parisian street performers.

Bertall (Charles Albert d’Arnoux), from Le Diable à Paris (The Devil in Paris), vol. 2, collective work, Paris (Hetzel) 1868.
Via archive.org.

12:51pm
(Notes: 29)
  
Filed under: Charles Albert d’Arnoux Bertall feats 
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