#HistSelfie

A man sitting at a desk in a costly library. The man is Friedrich Roth-Schultz, and the image can be found here: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/24177/mirador

Just take a selfie at your working desk showing you in an everyday working position, they said. Here we go, #HistSelfie.

A man standing on a beehive with a crossbow. Source: https://portraits.hab.de/werk/25383/mirador

A #HistSelfie to generate a lot of clicks: Standing armed on a beehive. With greetings from 1792.

A detail from a 1490s book titled "Wem der geprennt wein schad oder nucz sei, vnd wie er gerecht oder felschlich gemacht sei". The detail shows an image, colorized, with two men at a table. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00101646?page=,1

What do you mean, phones should be face-down on the table on silent, so we are not constantly glancing at them? #HistSelfie greetings from the 1490s.

Detail from a broadside of the 1670s showing a man well dressed lookimg annoyed. The image has been enriched with a smartphone. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00119332?page=,1

Taking a selfie as an important well-dressed man in the 1670s was an annoying art. Just look at his face. #HistSelfie

An image from a 1550s broadside showing a woman being robbed by the Devil. The broadside is titled "in wunderbarliche seltzame wahrhafftige geschicht/ [...]on einem Pfaffen vnd seiner Kellerin/ wie im sie der Teufel angesicht seiner augen hinweg fůrt : Ordentlich beschriben in reimens weiss/ vnd zů einer warnung allen frommen Mägdten oder Töchteren / H.W.V.S." and can digitally be accessed here: https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/content/titleinfo/2723768

As a Satan influencer in the 1550s, one needed drastic selfies to stay in the social media game. On this #HistSelfie you see the devil himself trying to rob a woman. Bonus points for the knee caps of the devil.

Detail of the frontispiece of "Historischer Rosen-Garten: bestehend Jn Drey Hundert Außerlesenen, Nutzlichen, lustigen und Denckwürdigen Historien Und Discursen", published in 1710, showing a chat between Mercur and Felicitas (maybe Iris) while Death in standing next to them holding a mobile phone as if he is about to do a selfie. vd18 10311564

Just Death, Mercury and Felicitas meeting for a #HistSelfie. Say cheese.

Image from a 1560s print (MEin Hertz freüdt sich allzeyt so sehr) that shows a Landsknecht posing originally with a drinking glass. The image has been enriched with a smartphone. The original image is digitized by Zentralbibliothek Zürich, PAS II 4/4, and can be accessed here: https://www.e-manuscripta.ch/zuzneb/content/titleinfo/2725498

Hi, this is a slow moving thread of #earlymodern images enriched with Smartphones used for selfies. #HistSelfie

The first selfie comes straight from the 1560s, and you see a German Landsknecht taking a stormy selfie.