| serge joe | 29 Oct 2014 8:59 a.m. PST |
gents, Maybe not something new but stil nice link greetings serge joe |
 deadhead  | 29 Oct 2014 12:56 p.m. PST |
nice, but running simultaneously in another message thread. No harm in repeating though!
TMP link |
| zaevor2000 | 29 Oct 2014 9:59 p.m. PST |
Thank you very much for sharing! Very glad that someone was able to capture them in their uniforms before they passed into history… Frank |
| Lets party with Cossacks | 29 Oct 2014 10:57 p.m. PST |
How increadible to see these photos. It makes me realise how recent the Napoleonic Wars in fact were. This seems easy to forget that given the tumultous successive changes which occurred in Europe from the French Revolution onwards, and that they took place prior to so many technological advances. The pride, wisdom and whimsy of these veterans is beautfilly captured. Cheers serge joe! |
| mashrewba | 30 Oct 2014 6:28 a.m. PST |
How many of us could get into clothes that we wore 40 years ago -modern diets!! |
| serge joe | 30 Oct 2014 11:18 a.m. PST |
Some uniformes like hair style were in the style of napoleon 3rd uniforms copies i do not know greeting serge joe |
| deadhead | 30 Oct 2014 1:47 p.m. PST |
They are surely, as explained earlier, reconstructions (and very good ones) but reflecting the style and fashions of 40 years later. Some are poor (esp that dragoon), most are excellent. That does not detract from their value. These guys, we can probably trust, did see the Napoleonic Wars and were photographed before they disappeared to their higher reward. |
| Lets party with Cossacks | 30 Oct 2014 2:23 p.m. PST |
Now read the other threads, and see that there are good grounds to conclude that only what was inside the uniforms was "authentic". But as is pointed out that cannot detract from the purpose or value of the photographic project. I wonder like Deadhead why no other state/principality undertook such a project. Anyone who has read Peter Watson's "The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissence, The Second Scientfc Revolution and the Twentieh Century" would see that there was enough intellectual and technological momentum in Europe to make that more than possible (sorry it is an area of interest of mine, not tryng to sound haughty) BTW I thought there was an indistinct photo of the Duke at the very end of his life, and will search for it. |
Ligniere  | 30 Oct 2014 3:53 p.m. PST |
There is a daguerreotype of the duke taken in the 1840's
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| deadhead | 31 Oct 2014 1:31 p.m. PST |
I have stared at that picture for three years now. It is incredible and its provenance is enough to convince me. Believe nothing on the Internet…believe nothing over 150 years old, just the same. Take everything with total incredulity. But the evidence is strong that this really is him. You truly are seeing the DoW in a "photograph". This is the only such image of him (which I think is so heartbreaking) other than his death mask. Uxbridge never had his photo taken. Some of Boney's brothers did in the same era. DoW lived nearly a decade after this "photo". He was world famous…there is one photo….(Daguerreotype) Where is the original I ask? |
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