See also film blog for poncy celebration of nuns without clothes.

16th June 2011

Photo reblogged from theater of diminished faculties with 1,089 notes

todf, billyjane:

 Automata constucted  between 1768 and 1774 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz

(Another)

todf, billyjane:

 Automata constucted  between 1768 and 1774 by Pierre Jaquet-Droz

(Another)

Tagged: 18th centuryanatomyautomatadollsmechanicalphotographypierre jaquet-drozpierre jaquet drozuncanny anatomy

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7th February 2010

Photo with 114 notes

Pierre Jacquet-Droz, Young Writer, 1770
From K.G. Pontus Hultén’s The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, Moma, 1968
Via the art of memory

Pierre Jacquet-Droz, Young Writer, 1770

From K.G. Pontus Hultén’s The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, Moma, 1968

Via the art of memory

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