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Tag Archives: 1860’s
1867: New Hampshire
David Johnson: Lancaster New Hampshire Farmland (1867)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, David Johnson, Landscapes, Painting, USA
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1862: Traveling Companions
Augustus Leopold Egg: The Travelling Companions (1862) The city in the background of this painting is Menton, on the Côte d’Azur, which had become a popular destination for sufferers of tuberculosis following the 1861 publication of Dr. James Henry Bennet’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 1870's, 19th Century, Alice, Art, Augustus Leopold Egg, Books, France, Great Britain, Illustration, James Henry Bennet, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Medicine, Painting, Trains, Tuberculosis, Women
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1864: Blue Morpho
Martin Johnson Heade: Blue Morpho Butterfly (c. 1864)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Butterflies, Insects, Martin Johnson Heade, Painting, USA
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1862: Till Hell Freezes Over
The phrase “until Hell freezes over” seems to originate during the civil war, as the earliest examples in print date from that time. In his 1869 book, The Life and Campaigns of General U.S. Grant, from Boyhood to his Inauguration … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, American Civil War, Art, Gordon Granger, Hell, John Collier, Language, Mississippi, Painting, Tennessee, The Devil, Ulysses S. Grant
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1864: Bird and Weeds
Léon Bonvin: Landscape with Bird and Weeds (1864)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, France, Landscapes, Léon Bonvin, Painting, Weeds
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1862: Billedbog
Pages from a scrapbook billedbog (Danish: “picture book”) made by Hans Christian Andersen and his friend Adolph L. Drewsen for eight-year-old Jonas Drewsen. Andersen and Drewsen both contributed to the collages and wrote stories and poems around the pictures and in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Adolph L. Drewsen, Art, Books, Children, Collage, Denmark, Hans Christian Andersen, Jonas Drewsen
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1865: Northern Lights
Frederic Edwin Church: Aurora Borealis (1865) “Some art historians have suggested that Church painted Aurora Borealis as a subdued tribute to the end of the Civil War, with the drapery of auroral light forming an abstract representation of the American … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, American Civil War, Art, Frederic Edwin Church, Landscapes, Meteorology, Painting, The Sky, USA
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1863: Donkey
Thomas Baker: A Donkey in a Landscape (1863)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Donkeys, Great Britain, Landscapes, Painting, Thomas Baker
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