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@KarenKilgariff Just listened to “Live at the Chevalier Theater in Medford, MA”. Excellent work on telling the story of The Great Boston Fire of 1872. I lost it when you elaborated on the “Horse Flu” and had to draw what popped into my head. I know you know that soap opera.
Jaroslav Panuška was born #OTD in 1872. Although considered a master of landscape painting, Panuška had a penchant for the dark & strange and was inspired by Czech fairy tales.
Baba Yaga
Vampire
Vampire Leaves
Water Sprite
#FairyTaleTuesday #Folklore #Art
GEORGE COLE
(1810 - 1883)
Early Morning on the Tamar, Devon.
Oil on canvas 1872.
34 1/4 x 48 1/2 inches.
Private collection.
@LunaLeso @hmcmicha @agustin_gut @yebosfaye @dianadep1 @bgv_online @FarooqA59056918 @AhmetDuranHergn @ROGERSALUCCI @anthony77631293 @Amyperuana @VicoLudovico @EnricoCastrovil @Ou_Prg @djolavarrieta @smc_su Károly Gyurkovics (19.3.1810-Budapest, 1872.) was an Hungarian painter
Who knew there were so many different varieties of sea-weed in the UK alone? Something to look out for over the summer! 'British sea-weeds : drawn from Professor Harvey's "Phycologia Britannica" v.2' 1872. Via our favourite archive - @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/Kpcj2yaOTL
“Gardens are not pieces of ground kept solely for the delight of gardeners.”
Happy birthday to our #garden designer #BeatrixFarrand: pioneering voice in landscape #design, first female member of the @NationalASLA, commissioned to work on 200 landscapes, born #OnThisDay in 1872.
The English artist, illustrator, & cartoonist W. Heath Robinson was born today in 1872. Here are some of his illustrations for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Before Peter Rabbit!
Before Beatrix Potter became a famous illustrator for children she studied archaeological finds. Her watercolours include finds from the Bucklersbury excavations,1872. The drawings are impressive in accuracy & beauty.
#IllustratorsOfThePast #Art #Archaeology
Just landing In beautiful St. Louis for #NSTA19! I'm signing Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon 11:30-12:30 @PeachtreePub booth #1872. Stop by and get a free space selfie!
The story of MOWGLI was based on the real life case of Dina Sanichar - a 6 year old boy living within a pack of wolves, discovered by hunters in India in 1872. His life was no Jungle Book, but a story of isolation & neglect. He could not adapt to modern life & died 20 years later
Este era Santiago Ramón y Cajal hacia 1872. En 1906 ganó el premio Nobel, tras haber trabajado de zapatero remendón y haber combatido en dos guerras. Guionistas de Netflix, ¿a qué esperáis? https://t.co/FlHoWJgBeF
"Mountain Landscape with Indians", 1870-1872.
🎨 by John Mix Stanley (American, 1814–1872).
More about him, here: https://t.co/N9hVhPhh2v