Historical Babes (A picture thread)

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http://www.chicos.net/img/corresponsales/fotos/cleopatra.jpg

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.newgenevacenter.org/portrait/marie-antoinette.jpg

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.berlin-en-ligne.com/Images%20mus%E9es/musee%20egyptien%20nefertiti.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.moviecitynews.com/Notepad/images/2003/troy2.jpg

― andy --, Monday, 24 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Bill & Ted to thread.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I fell in love with a woman in a portrait at the Victoria and Albert museum, but I can't recall the details. Anyway, here's Lady Peel, a hottie from the Frick Collection in NYC:

http://store1.yimg.com/I/tfcmuseumshop_1816_29357127

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mabelyn.com/infamous_women/images/messalina/bust.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.ashton-dennis.org/year01/emma_circe.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.shelford.vic.edu.au/Flexible/WOW/Texts/Gatsby/Images/zelda01_col.jpg
http://www.shelford.vic.edu.au/Flexible/WOW/Texts/Gatsby/Images/zelda01.jpg
http://www.arlindo-correia.com/zelda.jpg

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I would expect Jocelyn to be good at this game.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hot damn: I need to re-read Emma with J's picture in mind.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~jpetrie/rand3.gif

ha ha
no, just kidding

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That's Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, as quite the little minx.
http://www.lady.co.uk/articles/artimg/0326arta6.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/ampaintings/images/JSSmadamex.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops: running back the URL took me to a Jane Austen website!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/misc/mata-hari/mata-hari-nekkid.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Off-topic stand-outs from the Frick Collection:

Historical Studs
http://store1.yimg.com/I/tfcmuseumshop_1816_28514494

Historical Plain People who Stood for Portraits and Now it's Kinda Marvelous to See a Plain Person in a Grand Oil
http://store1.yimg.com/I/tfcmuseumshop_1816_27551861

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(Note the remarkable height of dude's codpiece!)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/images/objects/cropped2/700/sch200303311236-009.jpg

The Swedish Songbird Jenny Lind was supposed to be uber-babe but I don't know if I trust lithographs.

― andy --, Monday, 24 January 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Judging by the people in the background, that one didn't smell so good.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Or she's a hussy. A HUSSY, I say!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nellgavin.com/boleyn_facts/AnneBoleyn.jpg

She had six fingers, remember.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

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I will kiss your mouth, Iokannon. Kind of a nut. I'll stop now.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bbahneycomm.com/longhairlovers/images/sissi/sissi117.jpg

Franz-Joseph's wife, Elizabeth, known as Sissi.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.poster.net/winterhalter-franz-xaver/winterhalter-franz-xaver-madame-barbe-de-rimsky-korsakov-3100060.jpg

Madame Rimsky-Korsakov

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

http://magnificat.ca/cal/gifs/0722.jpg

Mary Magdalene.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/early_theater/images/Nell_Gwyn.gif

Nell Gwynne, One of Charles II's mistresses.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.martinstown.co.uk/WEBSITE/OBJECTS/STURTPICS/GUESTS/EdwardVII_files/keppel.jpg

Alice Keppel (Mrs. George Keppel) one of Edward VII's mistresses.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/archives/war/images/jenniejerome.gif

Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill, Winston's mum).

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=Pompadour/v=2/SID=e/l=IVI/SIG=131lm6t2a/EXP=1106691923/*-http%3A//www.visitvoltaire.com/images/pompadour_by_francois_boucher1757-26k.jpg

Boucher's portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Historical babes be not gettin' hair cuts.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Recommençons

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Not until the 20's, really, Jordan.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/images/gibson01.jpg

Charles Gibson's turn-of-the-(last)century icon of feminine beauty, the Gibson Girl. The two pearl onions in a gibson are meant to symbolize her breasts.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://pages.prodigy.net/erica.chappuis/AMpg3sp.htm

Pirate lovers Anne Bonny, Mary Read, & Jack Rackham.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Sappho

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.vincent.nl/images/ptg/other/1500/a1547.jpg

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I like her demure, little hat.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it balances on her head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Doesn't seem to be as much mess, though.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal/plantagenet/gifs/elizabethwoodville1437.jpg

Elizabeth Woodville

This little chipie captured Edward IV's heart and became Queen.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a total, total histocrush on Lady Jane Grey...

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― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post) She needs some medieval Rogaine, yo.

― andy --, Monday, 24 January 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably not, andy. The fashion for aristocratic ladies of the 15th century was to pluck their hairline back to give them a long forehead.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.art-is-life.com/images/art/lisafonssagrives_3a.jpg

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

http://65.40.245.240/gallery/women/amelias.jpg

http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/wonder_of_flight/images/Amelia-Earhart_250.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/images/objects/cropped2/300/sch200207010493-010.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 24 January 2005 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chemie.uni-bremen.de/stohrer/biograph/bilder/chatelet.jpg

Gabrielle-Emilie Marquise du Chatelet, mathematician and Voltaire's mistress.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil, is that Sarah Bernhardt?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 30 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~whtsai/Greece/Summary_of_Trip_Slide_Show/images/02-10%2006%20The%20snake%20goddess%20in%20Herakleion%20Museum%20in%20Crete,%20Greece.jpg

sorry to keep being derivative, but you guys are reminding me of things

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://alfalfapress.com/history/costume/images/1420s_delsarto.jpg

When I go into the National Gallery I like to visit him and lust a while.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/k/pics/krupskay.jpg

http://www.antoranz.net/CURIOSA/ZBIOR2/C0212/18-QZC03043-RCP05014-HER-101_Kollontai.jpg

Revolution! Revolution!

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Why don't I try that again, but as picture links?

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/k/pics/krupskay.jpg

http://www.antoranz.net/CURIOSA/ZBIOR2/C0212/18-QZC03043-RCP05014-HER-101_Kollontai.jpg

― emil.y (emil.y), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Good one Liz, more male babes pls!

http://home.tvd.be/ws35109/pics/rimbaud.jpg
Rimbaud

http://englishhistory.net/byron/images/shelley.jpg
Shelley

Do I only fancy poets?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://leonicat.club.fr/jep01/sargent_agnew.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I visit her every time I'm in Edinburgh

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Singer Sargent v gd at the pearly-skinned raven-haired lassies. Mmmm yes.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I didn't know Alexandra Kollontai was hot!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Emma Goldman:

http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/kurenets/k_pix/goldman/121703_5_b.gif

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://spb-ru.tourarena.com/ta2graph.nsf/Graph/LITERAture1_Natalia/$File/Natalia.jpg
The notorious Natalia Pushkin.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.alfea.it/storie/storie_ita/colet/biblio_colet/img/liszt.jpg
Liszt

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.peoples.ru/art/theatre/ballet/kshesinska/kshesinskaya_kshesinska.jpg
Matilde Kshesinskaya, ballerina and mistress of Tsar Nicolas II

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/images/ngwynne.gif

Nell Gwynne, orange-seller and mistress of Charles II

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmarina2.jpg

Marina Oswald, bringing more Russian hotness.

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/4505/theodcu.gif
From Bear Trainer's daughter to Empress of Byzantium

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/2/2d/180px-Robertkennedy.jpg

― K3rry, Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.curiouschapbooks.com/db_lizzie89_tint1.jpg

― papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0302/images/burrows/02.jpg

Madame Nhu

― briania (briania), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://matsumo-web.hp.infoseek.co.jp/music/mahr-u02.jpg
Alma Mahler and dog-bear

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Alma Mahler and dog-bear

And also the subject of a Tom Lehrer song!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Comtesse Marie Walewska, Napoleon's Polish Mistress

ihttp://pageperso.aol.fr/blondelarnaud/images/countesswalewska.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/24/NG2475/eNG2475.jpg
Christina of Denmark, who escaped the clutches of Henry VIII.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Juliette Récamier

http://www.oldmasterpiece.com/temp/david,jacques,louis,madame,recamier,597_0_350_350_242_173_0_ffffff_0_D7CBB3.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

A more coquettish view of Comtesse Walewska

http://pageperso.aol.fr/blondelarnaud/images/walewska%20marie.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/JimBob57/untitled.bmp

― James Orton (Jim Bob), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Vannozza de Catanei, mistress to a pope and father of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/serial_killers/history/borgias/3b.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/images/objects/cropped2/300/sch200304111310-003.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://silent-movies.com/cards/images/ColorDavies.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert and Clara Schumann:

http://pianoeducation.org/schumans.jpg

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.sub.su.se/national/bfran23.jpg

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Stars/LOMBARD.JPG

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.goldenageautographs.com/vintage/merleoberon.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.listonart.com/Artists_Of_Distinction/Collier/Thumbs/Lady_Godiva.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I was wondering when Countess Godgifu would show up.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thais.it/scultura/image/media/sch00349.jpg

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Saint Theresa?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 25 January 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2002/jun02/020602/Images/sem-anais2.jpg

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/gsp/taughtma/images/virgwlf.jpg

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.shef.ac.uk/f/frenchfilmstars/photos/arletty1.jpg

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://artyzm.com/s/simmler/images/smierc.jpg

Queen Barbara Radziwill, with Sigismund-August, King of Poland, at her deathbed. She was poisoned five days after her coronation in 1547.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://artyzm.com/s/simmler/images/smierc.jpg

Queen Barbara Radziwill, with Sigismund-August, King of Poland, at her deathbed. She was poisoned five days after her coronation in 1547.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.oil-paintings.com/assets/images/db_images/db_fb03.jpg

Louisa O'Murphy, another Louis XV mistress.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

http://jackperr.free.fr/meryl_streep.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/JimBob57/FPb.bmp

― Jedwin Van Pells (Jim Bob), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mariestopes.org.uk/images/young-marie-stopes.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.schumann.jp/photo/grp/zw040.jpg
Clara Wieck, later Schumann

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/JimBob57/ELEANOR20OF20AQUITAINE.bmp
Eleanor of Aquitaine, see also....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/JimBob57/hepburn21.bmp

― Jedwin Van Pells (Jim Bob), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hot.ee/meelismkutt/mannu0078.jpg

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Isabel I of Spain:

http://www.mirafloresdelasierra.org/images/isabelii.jpg

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Thursday, 27 January 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

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