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Tag Archives: 19th Century
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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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Animals, Books, Butterflies, Great Britain, Illustration, Insects, Moths, Thomas Brown
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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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1874: Seascape
Alfred Thompson Bricher: Seascape (1874)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Art, Painting, Seascapes, Ships & Sailing, USA
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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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1867: Distant View
Frederick Leighton: Distant View of Mountains in the Aegean Sea (1867)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Art, Frederick Leighton, Great Britain, Landscapes, Mountains, Painting, Seascapes
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1808: Squares Eight Times Eight
It was a fancy of the eccentric Mr. Pratt…to propose a game of Chess to a friend after dinner without Chessboard and men, and stipulate that instead of describing the moves with the usual prosaic abbreviations, a sort of poetical … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800's, 18th Century, 19th Century, Books, Chess, Great Britain, India, Language, Poetry
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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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1639: Thoughts
From a letter written by James Howell, 17 March 1639: Having got into a close field, I cast my face upward, and…began to contemplate as I was in this posture the vast magnitude of the universe and what proportion this … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1820's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Great Britain, James Howell, John Constable, Letters, Nature, Painting, Philosophy, The Sky, Trees
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1885: Foundry
P. S. Krøyer: The Iron Foundry, Burmeister and Wain (1885)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Denmark, Factories, Industry, Labor, P. S. Krøyer, Painting
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1802: The Eagle
William Blake: Headpiece to “The Eagle,” an illustration for William Hayley’s Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals (1802).
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Tagged 1800's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Babies, Birds, Books, Eagles, Great Britain, Illustration, Printmaking, William Blake
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