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Francis & Son, Department Store with branches in Brixton, Clapham Junction, Peckham and Streatham. Advertisement in the firm's Jubilee Brochure, Christmas 1889. https://t.co/mva2VfFlNd

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2019-12-11

John Knowsley Thornton (1845-1904) was a Scottish surgeon and the first to perform an adrenalectomy, in 1889. His patient was a 35 year old woman with hirsutism. The operation was a success (the tumour weighed 20 lbs!) but the patient died 2 years later due to recurrence.

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2019-09-16

of the Day: Wheatfield with Cypresses, September 1889. Oil on canvas, 72.1 × 90.9 cm. , London.

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2019-09-04

Mount Gaussier with the Mas de Saint-Paul, 1889.
Vincent van Gogh

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2019-08-13

British painter and printmaker C R W Nevinson was born in 1889. He’s best known for the harrowing works he made as an official war artist during the First World War https://t.co/Vg2ZqJlrSx

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2019-08-13

Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, born July 17, 1889.

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2019-07-17

Vincent van Gogh - Wild rose, 1889.
The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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2019-06-03

Dry Land Appearing, a wood engraving by Paul Nash who was born in 1889. Nash grew up in Buckinghamshire, where he developed a love of landscapes

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2019-05-12

"If the oak is out before the ash,
'Twill be a summer of wet and splash;
But if the ash is before the oak,
'Twill be a summer of fire and smoke."

This piece of plant folklore was reported in "The Folk-Lore of Plants" by T.F. Thiselton- Dyer in 1889.

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2019-05-09

‘Whether I’ve sung a lullaby with colour I leave to the critics’ Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. Beautiful at the new ⁦⁩

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2019-03-25

ABC's of February: "W" is for...
William H Richardson

The baby carriage was invented in 1733. Richardson patented an improvement to the baby carriage in the United States on June 18, 1889. His design ditched the shell shape for a basket-shaped carriage.

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2019-03-19

Garden scene from Faust illustrated by Harry Clarke. Artist born on March 17th 1889.

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2019-03-17

of the Day: Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse), February 1889. Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 72.7 cm. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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2019-02-25

of the Day: Portrait of Joseph Roulin, February-March 1889. Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

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2019-02-05

of the Day: Still Life with a Plate of Onions, January 1889. Oil on canvas, 50 x 64 cm. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

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2019-01-31

of the Day: Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, January 1889. Oil on canvas, 51 x 45 cm. Private collection, on long-term loan to Kunsthaus Zürich.

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2019-01-30

Ivan Aivazovsky.
Wave.
1889.
Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg.

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2018-11-04

British painter Edward Wadsworth, who was associated with the Vorticism movement, was born on this date in 1889. This is "Bronze Ballet."

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2018-10-30

of the Day: A Wheatfield with Cypresses, September 1889. Oil on canvas, 72.1 × 90.9 cm. , London.

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2018-09-15

C R W Nevinson was born in 1889. As an official war artist during the First World War he recorded his experiences at the Western Front in works like these prints https://t.co/UDDGGbebjQ

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