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The Political Courtney
Caption: "Logan. - Come, Jim, show some nerve, or nobody won't believe you're in the race! Ain't you never going to be Aggressive!"
James Gillespie Blaine Republican candidate for President and narrowly beaten by Democrat Grover Cleveland (see ALT text)...
@NHM_London @NHM_Library #InternationalPineappleDay
"Ananas brava. Ananas noble. Zuckerhuth". ca 1780.
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Pineapple Fruit
Engraver: John Watts (active 1770-1830)
Drawing by: Honorine Margaret Mabel Withers (1800-1900)
Publisher: Ridgeway
London, dated 1827
@CaldronUsa Same place?
"Tipos Popularares Madrileños"
"El Aguacil de la Plaza de Toros"
Wood engraving made after a photograph. Published 1883.
#Schinkel
One of the great German Architects!
Fountain in Berlin
Published in Berlin, 1819-1838
https://t.co/vLD016xOG7
Kyparissos was one of Apollo's lovers, who held a tame deer like a close friend. When he accidentally killed the animal, he was so unhappy that he wanted to die. But Apollo convinced him to live. He transformed him into a cyprus tree (symbol for mourning).
https://t.co/ijH4BlEfAa
"Provincia Castellae cum confiniss"
Castilla, Kastilen, España, Spanien, Spain, Segovia
by Giovanni (Johannes) Montecalerio 1649 in modern hand coloring.
Middle of this map is Segovia. Southeast is Madrid. Ciudad Real is at the center bottom of the map.
https://t.co/ZNWsBSqidR
"Nachahmung (Mimikry) geschuetzter Schmetterlinge durch ungeschuetzte"
(Reproduction (mimicry) of protected butterflies by those unprotected)
Chromolithograph published 1901.
https://t.co/0ZIszLxPNZ
#Bullfight
"Tipos Popularares Madrileños"
"El Aguacil de la Plaza de Toros"
Bullfight, Corrida de Toros, El Aguacil, Stierkampf
Wood engraving made after a photograph. Published 1883.
https://t.co/7uDfW4dCEH
Original Pencil drawing by Hans Kuhn of the Les Exilés Statue von Bildhauer Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912).
The statue is in the Museum d'Orsay in Paris.
Signed HKuhn and dated 15.1. (18)89
https://t.co/q67StGMnk6
This work is truly a pomological rarity as there are only three complete copies known of this work. One belongs to the Royal Horticulutral Society and another to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Séraph #Bavay.
Brussels, 1847-1850.
https://t.co/mhCiPPagFt