Okay, I Guess, This Artwork (drawing Practice?) Can Be Present Here As Well.

Okay, I guess, this artwork (drawing practice?) can be present here as well. 😮‍💨

For some reason I haven’t tried to depict Wellington and Castlereagh for 2 years and a half. Last August something made me to do it, however I was able to finish the art only recently.

Still can’t make myself draw someone less popular from the British side of the Napoleonic era. Hopefully, this situation is going to change one day…

At least, the finishing process was very fun! I’m slowly rewatching “Sharpe’s rifles” 5 years after the first viewing and can’t get enough of what I’m seeing, friendly speaking. X)

Like, I feel quite positive about the books and the show itself, even though I may get critique for that. Probably, rightfully. 😗

Oh well, it seems I don’t have any more strength for anything related to social networks aside from occasional check-ups every now and then.

I still draw things but uploading them also takes weeks and months, so it slowly becomes a vicious circle…

So, without any further explanations comes a tarot card featuring Metternich I finished more recently, since every online Tarot-calculator seems to agree with the majority of people - contemporaries, historians and Heaven itself - on the matter of his demon-hood. 😈

(It has a renown reference at it’s basis, so there’s a deeper meaning of some sort…)

And it’s accompanied by a small postscript with an Austrian historian Viktor Bibl who wrote one of the most critical works about Klemens and his deeds.

Have I read it personally? Or at least have started familiarising myself with it?

Of course not!

My German is too poor for such epic ventures, and I constantly struggle with reading in general but the ginormous e-library and wishful thinking are always there, ehem.

Silk empire style dress with embroidered roses

circa 1800, Napoleonic era

Austrian

Source: The Met

Re-upload in hope that somebody is going to notice and appreciate someone’s hard work.

A comics illustrating specific passage from Metternich’s dual biography with Wilhelmina, Duchess of Sagan.

Metternich's picture is now on public sale at Artaria in the Kohlmarkt, between portraits of Schwarzenberg and of Wellington. Her father is quite a hero, Marie [the eldest child of Klemens and his first wife Eleonore] writes, adding, "Everybody is buying it, and a huge crowd of people are always standing in front of this window." It is not a terribly good likeness; there is a leer in the right eye and Metternich when he sees it declares, "Next time I have my portrait made, it will be without any eyes at all."

Wellington’s Victory being one of Beethoven’s worst pieces gives me great satisfaction

It’s that wonderful time of the year…

When many prominent subjects of emperor Franz celebrate their 200-and-something birthdays! 🇦🇹 ✨

Today is a special day, since it’s the birthday of field-marshal Schwarzenberg, a military man, diplomate and movingly loving husband and father who definitely deserved much more than he got during his lifetime.

We’ve known for two years now, and it was one of the best Napoleonic acquaintances I’ve ever made, for sure. :)