I deck myself with silks and jewelry,
         I plume myself like any mated dove:
They praise my rustling show, and never see
         My heart is breaking for a little love.

L.E.L., Christina Rossetti



Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 🎨 by Maclise

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Farne Islands with Longstone Lighthouse. Oil on canvas - Sold. Near where in 1838 young Grace Darling bravely rowed out to save shipwrecked survivors in a treacherous storm. True heroine. Died 4 years later only 26.

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Knud Baade (1808-1879) was a Norwegian painter, mostly of portraits and landscapes.
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Cloud Study, Knud Baade 1838

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Amaldus Nielsen (1838-1932)

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Battle between Cossacks and Circassians, 1838.

A painting by the German artist Heinrich Ambrose Eckert (1807-1840)

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A Seminole Woman (1838)
George Catlin 🎨

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convertido por en de ayer en replicante del bufón Stańczyk del cuadro de 1862 del pintor polaco Jan Matejko (1838 - 1893)

➕#humor & /
👉https://t.co/9NeERyxpM3

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Autumn Moon over Tama River, by Utagawa Hiroshige, ca. 1837-1838

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Magnus von Wright, Vaakunapatsas, kuva n:o 21 opetussarjassa Grunder i Teckna och Rita, 1838 https://t.co/jQy4VIhlHK

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🐳 Compléments de Buffon. t.1.
Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1838.
https://t.co/9cYAD5XRZG

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One of the great German Architects!
Fountain in Berlin
Published in Berlin, 1819-1838
https://t.co/vLD016xOG7

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Birds of the park: Pictorial Monograph of Birds ....
Beautiful Japanese woodblock prints of birds in their natural habitat (1885) by Numata Kashu (1838–1901). ..... https://t.co/lLi12p58Ee

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Rapaziada pra quem nao ta sabendo essa sexta dia 24/06 eu vou tocar com a minha banda la no picles!

DE GRAÇA
24/06
19 horas
rua cardeal arcoverde 1838

LESGOOO BORA PAULISTASSS

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Stereo imagery goes way further back however. The "stereoscope"—introduced by Charles Wheatstone in 1838—used line drawings. Photography was still in its infancy in the 1830s!

Image credit (right): Teylers museum

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I recall a version of this story that I loved as a girl, The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her 11 brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838.  https://t.co/NCVV4DFGO8

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