Victorian 1880s Photogravures Ephemera Unmasking Gothic Dark Lolita In Distress Betrayed By Her Lover by Eduard Richter Pinks
I think of my Etsy Shop as a Mercantile. I’ve collected all sorts of bizzarre stuff over the years and I think it’s fun to show it off. My original motive was to get materials for my own altered art. If you look at the shop you’ll see some of my own altered art pieces, but plenty of cool materials you can use in your own.
Here’s some randomness, including a photogravure (I have a bunch) which is an obsolete and very high-quality printing technique. I think it went out of style because it was too costly. It couldn’t have anything to do with the image quality because they are astonishing! You don’t get the sort of pixels-and-dots effect you have with later printing methods. Photogravure has this unusual quality of realism because the image is extremely fine-grained.
photogravure lurid gothic story
I’ve got a bunch of these photogravures but this one is one of the most lurid. Kind of Edgar Alan Poe-ish: lady in distress unmasked by her lover, who looks like a real mean guy:
“Tyrolese Hunter is a bastard son who slays his knight in combat and attaches himself to his lady Belcolore who professes her deepest love for him. and he in return is intoxicated by her charms. He finally breaks from her voluptuous dalliance, and goes to wars where his valor and disdain of death win him proud laurels. He returns an officer and hero but is still a wretched misanthrope.”
So much for the flower of chivalry, eh?
