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#OTD 1848 b. Gustave Caillebotte, French artist and engineer. His images of ordinary lives (and often a sense of relationships) realistic but subtle in their use of colour (similar here in summer shade and winter snow in Paris)
"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake."
Kurt Vonnegut, writer, b.#OTD 1922
More of the beautifully designed set of Romantic poets stamps celebrating Wordsworth’s 250th birthday. Royal Mail worked on the design with academic biographer, Jonathan Bate.