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An ancient Olympic hero!
Milo was a six-time Olympic victor. He won the boys' wrestling, and thereafter five men's wrestling titles between 536 and 520 BCE.
Copper etching by B.A. Nicolette after the painting by Le Georgion
Paris, ca. 1770
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#OwlishMonday
Anonymous lithograph. No printing details, except plate number (CXIII) given. Mounted on cardboard. Printed in color. Ca. 1880
#OwlishMonday
Studer Plate 10 - Owl
Publlication: "Studer's Birds of North America"
by Jacob Henry Studer (1840-1904)
Chromolithograph, 1878
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The talking parrot and the daintily singing #canary
Copper etching by Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756). With a rhyming poem about the subject matter in the German language. Original hand coloring. Augsburg, ca. 1730.
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Singing birds
Names in German & Latin
Zaunkoenig, Zaunschluepfer, Nachtigall, Rothschwanz, Weisschwanz, Bachstelze, Drossel, Rosendrossel, Goldamsel, Leyerschwan, Kahlamsel
Steel engraving by Soltuekow for "Okens Allgemeine Naturgeschichte " ca 1845.
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Fantastic birds!
The famous #Catesby-birds are of the general area of the Carolinas, Florida and the Caribbean! The plants shown are all from this region
Nuremberg 1770-1773.
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Most lovely sepia print after #ClaudeLorrain
Seaport. A sail ship has arrived. Longshoremen in boats are busy discharging goods.
Printed in superb sepia color
After the drawing by Claude le Lorrain
Published in Liber Veritatis
London, dated 1774
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Published in "La Caricature". Paris 1871
Horace-Francois Sebastiani was Minister of Foreign Affairs in France from 1830 to 1832.
So this is a play on words, a parody: Sebastiani versus St. #Sebastian.
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Impressions of the most beautiful #Salzburg countryside and City through the centuries:
In 1580
In 1740
In 1836
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Grandma reads and tells fairy tales
Lithograph original hand coloring.
Altkolorierte Lithographie von Louis Leopold Boilly
Signed L. Boilly and dated 1801 lower left corner.
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