Frank McDonoughさんのイラストまとめ

14 April 1939. The classic novel, Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck was first published in the USA. It’s set in the Great Depression, focusing on the poor Joad farming family struggling with economic hardship. The novel helped Steinbeck to win the Nobel Prize in 1962.

13 April 1973. The classic album, Alladin Sane, by David Bowie, was released in the UK. It was the first Bowie album to reach No.1 in the UK. The album cover by Brian Duffy is regarded as one of his most iconic images of Bowie and was copied by fans who attended his concerts.

9 April 1860. On his phonautograph machine, French born, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, made the oldest known recording of a human voice. Unlike Thomas Edison's later phonograph, the phonautograph created only visual images of the sound and could not play back its recordings.

7 April 1770. Poet William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumbria. He was Britain’s poet laureate from 1843 until his death. He helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with his joint publication Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Coleridge.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German Magazine (1930).

Goodnight all

Born #OTD: Elvis Presley (1935), Shirley Bassey (1937), Stephen Hawking (1942) and David Bowie (1947).

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A vision of the future from a German Magazine (1930).

9 October 1834. The Dublin & Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland, opened. It linked Westland Row in Dublin with Kingstown Harbour (Dún Laoghaire) in County Dublin.

@oftheVotadini I think it was something to do with painting from memory. Here is 1821 Derby.