This website takes old pictures and puts random captions on them. I was wondering what this picture:
http://www.marriedtothesea.com/110406/a-good-circle.gif
was originally from (a science magazine or something, maybe?). Anyone have an idea?
2007-02-09 14:11:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
According to wikipedia their Victorian lithographs, if that helps anyone find them. I just want to know what the cricles on his shoulders are.
2007-02-09 14:21:08 · update #1
What the guy is carrying looks like a listening device to me, see the stethoscope-like tubes to his ears. Since the arrival of sounds in both our ears allows us to locate the source of that sound, and since the apparatus widens the distance between the sound reception, he could be a navy officer (uniform!) trying to locate another ship by its foghorn or so.
2007-02-09 17:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by Sterz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It appears to be a magazine entry from the mid-late 1800's depicting a device allowing a blind man to locate people by the sound bouncing off of the reflectors.
Why he is popping out of a Grecian urn is beyond me, but they did that kind of thing all the time to catch peoples eye.
2007-02-09 19:14:56 · answer #2 · answered by Thornbrier 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They're headlights of some kind. He's wearing a yoke like a bull would wear while in harness, pulling a cart or early tractor. Artwork looks late 1800's so it's plausible.
2007-02-09 14:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by mabster60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The basket that the man is standing up in looks like one that you see in India.
2007-02-09 14:20:26 · answer #4 · answered by Johnny Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no but i think there pretty cool, an thoughtful
2007-02-09 14:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by peeps you 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope
2007-02-09 14:14:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
freaky
2007-02-09 14:15:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋