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Tag Archives: 19th Century
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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1882: Jumbo
An anecdote from Matthew Scott’s biography of Jumbo the Elephant (1885): Once when I was riding him around in the Zoological Gardens, in London, sitting on his neck, with about a dozen children on a panier-saddle across his broad back, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Africa, Animals, Children, Elephants, Great Britain, Jumbo the Elephant, Mammals, Matthew Scott, Sudan, Zoos
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1848: The Devil’s Violin
Costume design by Paul Lormier for the 1849 ballet Le violon du diable (source).
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Tagged 1840's, 19th Century, Art, Dance, Demons, Design, France, Owls, Paul Lormier, Snakes, Theater
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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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19th Century: Provenance Unknown
Portrait of a child holding a lizard. Nineteenth or twentieth century, maybe American.
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Tagged 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Children, Lizards, Portraits, Reptiles, USA
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1889: Artist-in-Residence
The celebrated 19th century French painter and sculptor Rosa Bonheur was known for wearing men’s pants, shirts, and ties, as well as participating in traditionally masculine activities such as hunting and smoking. She lived with her lifelong partner, Nathalie Micas … Continue reading
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Tagged "Buffalo Bill" Cody, 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, France, Horses, LGBTQ, Mammals, Nathalie Micas, Native Americans, Painting, Photography, Portraits, Printmaking, Rosa Bonheur, Sheep, USA, Women
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1808: Portrait of a Horse’s Ass
Henry Raeburn: Portrait of George Harley Drummond (ca. 1808–9); “It is curious…that the animal’s hindquarters should be so prominently displayed” says the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Tagged 19th Century, Animals, Art, George Harley Drummnd, Great Britain, Henry Raeburn, Horses, Mammals, Painting, Portraits, Scotland
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1750: First Sleep, Second Sleep
That dreaming is a less sound species of sleep, appears from the familiar fact, which has probably been observed by every individual; viz. that the first sleep is much freer from it than the second. We retire to rest, fatigued … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 19th Century, A. Roger Ekirch, Abraham Rees, Africa, Art, Dreams, France, Homer, Painting, Sleep, Virgil
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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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1895: Long Beach
George Howell Gay: Surf, Long Beach, Rockport; I made up the date.
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, George Howell Gay, Painting, Seascapes, USA
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