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'The Print Maker.' (c1860) Honoré Daumier's career was one of the most unusual in the history of 19thC art. Famous in his time as France's best-known caricaturist and one of the period's most profoundly original realists, he remained unrecognised in his importance.

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2022-04-05

Resurrecting this beauty for Illustrations by 19thc surgeon, anatomist, neurologist & artist Charles Bell, from Anatomy of the Brain, dated 1802. Bell is best known for describing the effects of paralysis on the 7th cranial nerve 'Bell's Palsy'

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2022-03-18

This is Frederic Edwin Church's amazing 1861 painting, Our Banner in the Sky!!!! I love this painting and wrote about it on my undergraduate dissertation on the iconography of art during the American Civil War!!!

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2022-03-10

By the 19thc, Europe’s forests had been the site of richly dark tales & art. But they had also seen the real horrors of war. Following Romanticism, artists could, at last, be honest about it all & foreground the darkness itself. The thing with history is that it repeats…

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2022-03-06

Three Nineteenth Century and Their Beauty Secrets - Three nineteenth century royal beauties served as the glamorous ideal for women in the These three beauties were the Empress Eugénie ... https://t.co/1B71BYEU7D

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2022-03-05

If I had to pick one fairy tale I loved as a child, it was Bluebeard. Brought to life by Charles Perrault in 1697, & illustrated below by Doré & Dalziel in the 19thc, the tale’s themes of forbidden secrets & the perils of curiosity were as old as Pandora 😱🗝#FairyTaleTuesday

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2022-03-02

Justice John Byles: Some of His Interesting Court Cases - Justice studied law in Britain in the 1820s and 30s and became a member of the Inner Temple, a professional body that provides legal ... https://t.co/spgA2NNtK0

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2022-02-28

I love the way the Victorians conceived of witch & bat-woman attire —the 19thc had such rich histories surrounding occult hobbyists 🖤🦇#FaustianFriday

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2022-02-26

Justice John Byles: Some of His Interesting Court Cases - Justice studied law in Britain in the 1820s and 30s and became a member of the Inner Temple, a professional body that provides legal training, ... https://t.co/ihv02fbfvS

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2022-02-25

The Palais-Royal: Social Centre of 19th-Century Paris https://t.co/7hg4IyGvTr

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2022-02-19

Ether: Early Anesthesia and Its First Uses - By the late 1830s, public gatherings referred to as “ether frolics” were being held by wandering lecturers. These gatherings involved audience members inhaling diethyl ... https://t.co/XlS2ndWPTr

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2022-02-10

Hero or madman? 1831 - in War of Independence from the a Dutch naval officer, Jan van Speijk, became a national hero by a blowing up the gunboat & crew which he commanded. Click: https://t.co/8OrkIzQz3N History

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2022-02-07

Canada Bill: William Jones Confidence Artist - Chances are you even if you’ve heard of Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill, you haven’t heard of He wasn’t famous like either of those ... https://t.co/h1Psd6YnNb

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