Tag Archives: 19th Century

1845: Daguerreotype with Daguerreotypes

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

Portrait of a Daguerreotypist Displaying Daguerreotypes and Cases, 1845, maker unknown. (source)

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1862: Billedbog

Posted on August 12, 2017 by corvusfugit

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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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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1850: The Last Hoopoe Starling

Posted on August 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

FREGILUPUS VARIA As long ago as 1674 a note about the “Huppe” exists, by “Le Sieur D.B.,” i.e., Dubois. He says, when describing the birds of Réunion (translated): “Hoopoes or ‘Callendres,’ having a white tuft on the head, the rest … Continue reading →

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1890: Castle

Posted on August 10, 2017 by corvusfugit

The castle, Hohenzollern, Germany; photochrom print published between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900 by the Detroit Publishing Co. (source)

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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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1887: Lake

Posted on August 8, 2017 by corvusfugit

John Olson Hammerstad: Lake Michigan (c. 1887)

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1880: The House

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Illustration from The Children’s Object Book (F. Warne & Co., 1880’s) (source)

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1840: The End of the World

Posted on August 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

“Der Götter und Riesenkampff bey dem Weltuntergang” [The Gods and the Great Battle at the Apocalypse]; illustration from The World Theater, or The Universal World History From Creation To The Year 1840, etc. by C Strahlheim (1834-41).

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