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Tag Archives: 19th Century
1877: Hope Deferred, And Hopes And Fears That Kindle Hope
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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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Charles West Cope, Digital Art, Great Britain, Melancholy, Painting, Women
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1893: Sketch
Petrus Van der Velden: sketchbook drawing (1893) (source)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Drawing, Landscapes, Netherlands, New Zealand, Petrus Van der Velden
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1806: Blessed Among the Blessed
In the third canto of the Paradiso, Dante has arrived in the lowest sphere of Heaven with his guide Beatrice, who has just given him a long lecture about the origin of spots on the moon. There, he sees just … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Century, 1800's, 19th Century, Books, Christianity, Dante, Gian Giacomo Macchiavelli, Heaven, Italy, Poetry, Printmaking, Religion, The Moon
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1863: Donkey
Thomas Baker: A Donkey in a Landscape (1863)
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Tagged 1860's, 19th Century, Animals, Donkeys, Great Britain, Landscapes, Painting, Thomas Baker
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1871: The Day’s Doings
October 21, 1871: “Startling appearance of a monster sea-serpent off Kilkee on the Irish coast” (source).
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Animals, Cryptids, Ephemera, Ireland, Oddities
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1884: Marine
William Trost Richards: Marine (1884) (source)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Painting, Seascapes, The Ocean, USA, William Trost Richards
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1850: The Veil
Giovanni Strazza: The Veiled Virgin (c. 1850)
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Tagged 1850's, 19th Century, Art, Christianity, Giovanni Strazza, Italy, Sculpture, Women
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1806: Journey to the West
Katsushika Taito II: 画本西遊全伝 [Picture Book – Journey to the West] Vol. 3 (c. 1806) (source)
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Tagged 1800's, 19th Century, Animals, Books, Japan, Katsushika Taito II, Monkeys, Printmaking
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1883: You are Wheat and Belong in the Wheatfield
Pages from a letter from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, 28 October 1883: to cause despondency for six months, until one eventually sees after all that one shouldn’t have let oneself be disoriented. There are two people whose intense … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Drawing, Gustave Doré, Horses, Letters, Melancholy, Netherlands, Oxen, Painting, Ravens, Theo van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh
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1885: Explain Yourself!
Unattributed frontispiece for an 1885 edition of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (source) —from the University of Florida’s “Afterlife of Alice” collection, part of the extensive Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature (here). The Caterpillar and Alice … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Alice, Animals, Art, Books, Caterpillars, Children, Drawing, Illustration, Insects, Lewis Carroll
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