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Tag Archives: 1830’s
1832: The Destructive Sphinx
Illustrations from The Book of Butterflies, Sphinxes and Moths; illustrated by one hundred and forty-four engravings, coloured after nature; in three volumes (Thomas Brown, 1832-4)
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1939: Revolt
Hale Woodruff’s murals commemorating the revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad were installed in Talladega College’s Savery Library in 1939, the centennial of the uprising. The first mural depicts the moment when, on or about July 1, 1839, kidnapped … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 1930's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Africa, African-Americans, Art, Hale Woodruff, Law, Libraries, Murals, Painting, Resistance, Ships & Sailing, Sierra Leone, Slavery, USA
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1838: Gothic
Hubertus van Hove: A Couple in Front of a Gothic Building (1838)
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Architecture, Art, Hubertus van Hove, Landscapes, Netherlands, Painting
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1670: A Very Strange and Prodigious Wonder
A letter from John Winthrop, Jr. to Lord Brereton, October 11, 1670: Boston Oct. 11, 1670. My Lord: The relation which I am now presenting to your Lordship is of a very strange and prodigious wonder this last Summer in … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1830's, 19th Century, Art, Great Britain, John Winthrop Jr., Landscapes, Letters, Lord Brereton, Oddities, Painting, Rivers, Thomas Cole, USA
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1838: Matua Tawai
Alexandre Pierre Marie Dumoutier: plaster cast of Matua Tawai, a New Zealander of Ikanamawi (1838) Moulage sur nature became a powerful freezing and fixation tool used to document a natural and even human hic et nunc status. In the great … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Alexandre Pierre Marie Dumoutier, Anthropology, Colonialism, France, Matua Tawai, New Zealand, Tattoos
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1830: The Boy After this Excited Much Wonder
From John Fanning Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia, being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, from the days of the Pilgrim founders (1830): The good people of Caledonia [Scotland] have so long and exclusively … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Art, John Fanning Watson, Oddities, Painting, Peter Vanderlyn, Portraits, USA
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1831: A Loud Noise in the Heavens
Nat Turner’s bible (source) And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he … Continue reading
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Tagged 1820's, 1830's, 19th Century, African-Americans, Books, Christianity, Nat Turner, Rebellion, Religion, Slavery, Thomas R. Gray, USA
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1831: Bristol Burns
W. J. Müller: Bristol Burns (1831) Arising from the House of Lords’s rejection of a bill that would have increased representation in the House of Commons, the 1831 Bristol Riots were part of the long struggle for democracy in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Activism, Art, Democracy, Fire, Great Britain, Painting, Riots, Voting Rights, W. J. Müller
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1836: These Abhorred Vermin Seemed to Become my Friends
We report [the following] on the authority of a letter of Joseph Purdew, an observer, equally exact and judicious. “This morning,” he says, “while reading in bed, I was suddenly interrupted by a noise similar to that made by rats, … Continue reading
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