That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for February 12, 2020

She tried to cover up the baby bump.

Gainsborough’s lesser known painting ….. ‘The Brown Girl’.

“This is where I cut my fourth husband.”

“The pain is here, Dr. Ogle, where my finger is pointing…about three inches below where you’re looking.”

Back in those days, push-up bras had to be done manually.

All the artist’s models wound up looking like this when they realized what he really wanted.

‘does this bonnet make my head look too small…?’

Taking off a glove worked for Gypsy Rose Lee; Amanda considers removing her hat as well.

I’ve just had the Savoy Truffle, Sir George, and I think I’m going to hurl!

”Unbreak my heart, say you love me again.”

Oh!!! My Spleen!!!

In the days before elastic, flashing your breasts took a great deal more arm strength.

Otto Titslinger’s wife telling him that his design better come in a variety of sizes.

“Is the candy in that dish for everyone?”

Post dental work facial wrapping was much more decorative and elaborate back then.

She appears docile enough, but when the gloves come off , Lady Thrustknocker can be quite formidable.

She was having a bad hair day so she put a bonnet on it…..

First the gloves and then this hideous bonnet. Thomas began to suspect his Queer Eye makeover was not going as planned.

Winky has a girl friend.

“Sun’s out, Guns out baby!

Still not seeing it…

girl sad because her gloves were way too large for her hands

I’ve got a gas pain right here.

Painting done after the second head was removed.

Insta-Portrait at the fair. Just stick your head through the hole

Cathrine Jensen, née Lorenzen, the artist’s wife: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathrine_Jensen,_f%C3%B8dt_Lorenzen,_kunstnerens_hustru.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome, with Google Translate added to chrome://extensions, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/jensen_christian_albrecht.html 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=5260 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/j/jensen/biograph.html 

https://books.google.com/books?id=jtJHAQAAIAAJ&q=1792&pg=PA337#v=onepage&q=1792&f=false 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/32357038@N08/7700810762 

https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisWeilbach.do?kunstnerId=114&wsektion=alle 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, Chrome can automatically translate as necessary), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2382 (February 11, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Objective comment: that is a rather odd pose. Why is her right hand up like that? And, many of these artists focused so thoroughly on getting the face, the portraiture, right that they screwed up the proportions on bodies.

It is not my intent to be mean/ but she isn’t a beauty queen/ She will have to expose/twixt her neck to her toes/ something better by far than her spleen.

It was not a splenectomy scar. It was a whaleboned corset mishap.

Mrs Jensen, you’re sticking out your middle finger again!

after a few hours Margo was tired of holding up her breasts. the dress was not doing it’s job.

Unable to afford a male model, the artist used his wife to portray St. Thomas.

Orange Is Ye Olde BlackBeatrice is repping for her posse the The Insane Tangerines. Word

As the artist got a look at his latest nude model he said, “Yeah. Why don’t you keep your clothes on.”