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Tag Archives: 1810’s
1816: Spirit of the Vale of Neath
Thomas Hornor: Spirit of the Vale of Neath – Day and Spirit of the Vale of Neath – Night (1816)
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Tagged 1810's, 19th Century, Art, Great Britain, Painting, Thomas Hornor, Wales
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1909: The Seven Ravens
The good little sister took a knife and cut off her own tiny finger, fitted it into the keyhole, and succeeded in opening the lock. When she had entered, she met a Dwarf, who said: “My child, what are you … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 1900's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Arthur Rackham, Birds, Books, Brothers Grimm, Fairy Tales, Germany, Great Britain, Illustration, Ravens
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1816: The World Was about to Come to an End
In 1881, Jedediah Hubbell Dorwin published some recollections of living in Montreal based on his extensive journals and scrapbooks. The following was reprinted in many newspapers at the time: On the morning of Sunday, November 8, 1819, the sun rose … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Canada, Churches, Jedediah Hubbell Dorwin, Painting, Paul Sandby Jr., Weather
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1810: A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom
A Composite Ox with a Demon Groom (Oudh, India, ca. 1810-30) (source)
1886: Methods
The following list of terms used to express diverse modes of divination, with explanations, will be found unusually complete and may interest students of occult science. The expressions have been gathered from various sources : Aeromancy, by appearances in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Food and Drink, Magic, Occult, Oddities, Painting, Raphaelle Peale, USA
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1816: The Visions of Thomas Martin
Thomas Martin was born in Gallardon, France in 1783. Beginning in 1816, he began to see visions of an elegantly dressed young man who called himself the Archangel Raphael. The youth commanded Martin to travel to Paris to see King … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 19th Century, Angels, France, King Louis XVIII, Oddities, Psychology, Thomas Martin
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1813: Deception
Margaretta Angelica Peale: Painting Catalogue: A Deception (1813)
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Tagged 1810's, 19th Century, Art, Books, Margaretta Angelica Peale, Painting, Trompe l'œil, USA, Women
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1812: I Awoke in the Greatest Agitation
On May 11, 1812, John Bellingham, a disgruntled Liverpool merchant, assassinated British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in the lobby of the House of Commons in London. In his autobiography, the civil engineer Sir John Rennie (whose company built the London … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 19th Century, Dreams, Great Britain, John Bellingham, John Fox, John Rennie, Murder, Oddities, Spencer Pereceval
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1815: Three Crows
Totoya Hokkei: 「三ひらの内」日輪に烏 [Three Crows against the Rising Sun] (mid 1810’s)
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Tagged 1810's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Crows, Japan, Printmaking, The Sun, Totoya Hokkei
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1814: The Fairy Vessel Performed its Little Voyage
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley loved paper boats: Shelley’s walks, when not determined elsewhere, often tended in the direction of a pond at no great distance from Primrose Hill, very proper for the delectable amusement of sailing paper boats; or … Continue reading
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Tagged 1810's, 1880's, 19th Century, Edward Dowden, Great Britain, London, Mary Shelley, Miniatures, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poetry, Ships & Sailing
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