Tag Archives: 1870’s

1918: Mysterious Island

Posted on August 14, 2017 by corvusfugit

N. C. Wyeth: Endpapers for a 1918 edition of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1874). The book, a sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, recounts the adventures of five Union soldiers who escape their Confederate captors in a hot … Continue reading →

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1876: Marsh

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Martin Johnson Heade: Marsh Sunset, Newburyport, Massachusetts (c. 1876–1882)

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1871: Llyn Nant-y-Clif

Posted on August 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles Leslie: Welsh Landscape, Llyn Nant-y-Clif, North Wales (1871)

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1875: Flight

Posted on August 9, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Lunar halo and luminescent cross observed during the balloon Zénith’s long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875.” drawn between 1875 and 1880, possibly by Albert Tissandier (source)

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1875: A Day Less for Examination

Posted on August 3, 2017 by corvusfugit

Evelyn De Morgan: Life drawing of a seated male model inscribed “A Day Less for Examination” [detail] (1875) (source)

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1873: Distant Lighthouse

Posted on July 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

William Trost Richards: Seascape with Distant Lighthouse, Atlantic City, New Jersey (1873)

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1877: Hope Deferred, And Hopes And Fears That Kindle Hope

Posted on July 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Charles West Cope: Hope Deferred, and Hopes and Fears that Kindle Hope; exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1877.

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1871: The Day’s Doings

Posted on July 27, 2017 by corvusfugit

October 21, 1871: “Startling appearance of a monster sea-serpent off Kilkee on the Irish coast” (source).

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1878: The Great Physician

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

It is to the Nilometer [a submerged building built to measure and predict the Nile’s clarity and water level] that the island of Rods [Rhoda/Rawdah] owes its fame, and there is little else that the visitor will find worth seeing … Continue reading →

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1875: Nocturne

Posted on July 25, 2017 by corvusfugit

James Abbott McNeill Whistler: Nocturne (1875-1880) (source)

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