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Tag Archives: 19th Century
1877: Lights
John Atkinson Grimshaw: Scarborough Lights (1877)
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1877: Self-Referential
Émile Friant: Tube of Gouache (1877)
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1884: Two More Rats
Vincent van Gogh: Two Rats (1884)
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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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1885: Bridge
John Atkinson Grimshaw: Battersea Bridge (1885)
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1857: Bodrum
George Frederic Watts: Bodrum, Asia Minor (1857)
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1918: Mysterious Island
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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2.2 mya: Matsya and the Asura Hayagriva
In Hindu mythology, there are four historical eras, yugas, that repeat in a cycle; the first of these is the Satya Yuga, followed by the Treta Yuga, the Dvapara Yuga, and, finally, the Kali Yuga. We are presently in a … Continue reading
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1883: Educate! Agitate! Organize!
“Educate! Agitate! Organize!” This slogan apparently first appeared in print in 1883—in a pamphlet produced by a British organization called the Democratic Federation. The artist and writer William Morris was the treasurer of the group and included the phrase on … Continue reading
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1864: Bird and Weeds
Léon Bonvin: Landscape with Bird and Weeds (1864)
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