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Geographical Fun (1868), a series of fantastic anthropomorphic maps of European countries, drawn by an unnamed 15-year-old girl who had the idea for the novel maps "when seeking to amuse a brother confined to his bed by illness": https://t.co/GGWRKEdJBb

Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td

Carl Svante Hallbeck, Waterfall and Northern Lights, 1856.

Chromolithograph of the waterfall Harsprånget in the polar night with the aurora borealis.

Print available in our shop here: https://t.co/2MXoIceaTS

"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail " (1561–96) — from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe Georg Bocskay and artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died #onthisday in 1601: https://t.co/mHEGK9rp4X #OTD

One of the more prominent figures is the Black sailor who watches over the violent scene. The historian Louis P. Masur called this sailor “one of the most important representations of a black person in all of eighteenth-century Western art”.

More here: https://t.co/QxaR9Sx69a

Several scholars have traced the debts that Copley owes to previous artworks, in terms of composition, anatomy, and metaphorical import. Watson is pictured with a similar body and posture (though rotated and semi-submerged) to the Borghese Gladiator (from the third century BCE).

John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark (1778).

Subject of our latest Collections post: https://t.co/QxaR9Sx69a

Future visions of everyday life in the year 2000, from a series of late 19th- / early 20th-century French postcards. https://t.co/Itf9EKjlO9

Roald Amundsen — the Norwegian explorer who, with his team, became the first to reach the South Pole — was born #onthisday in 1872. See our highlights of the wonderful set of photos from the 1910–12 expedition: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz #OTD

Eugène Carrière, Sleep, 1897.

One of 500+ public domain works to feature in our new book of images Affinities, now available (for a limited period) to pre-order — https://t.co/gZafzRBJOS