More Victorian Cheer

[Willa]

They were really weird in ways I do not understand. But Merry Xmas !

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https://hyperallergic.com/261847/have-a-creepy-little-christmas-with-these-unsettling-victorian-cards/

[Gothichome]

Willa, symbolism in Victorian times was every were. The symbolism of jewellery, flowers, morning practices, paintings, the list is endless. Why not Christmas cards. The meaning of a horse radish root carrying a message etched into a tomb stone like tablet has lost it’s meaning to us, but I bet a Victorian would recognize the symbolism.
Found this on the net, a it of read but it does it does give one view.
http://www.vaultofthoughts.com/2016/12/ ... mas-cards/
And another about the same topic at the hight of the Aesthetic movement.
https://hyperallergic.com/261239/the-vi ... ic-object/

[Willa]

The meaning of a horse radish root carrying a message etched into a tomb stone like tablet has lost it’s meaning to us, but I bet a Victorian would recognize the symbolism.

Hahaha ! I identified it as a "dapper turnip" while a friend said it was a Mandrake. Maybe it IS a horse radish root ? I hadn't connected the tombstone part though ?

(Was it all the absinthe and lead pipes that made them so strange ?)

[Gothichome]

Could be Willa, or maybe the all you could buy opium and coccaine.