🌄 Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds: .
London: Printed and sold by the author . . ;1794-1796.
https://t.co/djItYQgyg0

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4/22は バルジャンがパン1つの罪で「鎖につながれた」日(1796)なんですね。

がイタリアでオーストリア軍に勝利したことが伝えられた日だったそうです。

ナポレオンとバルジャンは同い年。バルジャン釈放の1815年はナポレオンがワーテルローで敗北した年です。

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John Peter Simon (after Henry Fuseli), A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Act IV, Scene I, 1796.

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By Suzuki Kiitsu (1796-1858)

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After his parents died in 1797 he moved his studio to their home in London, together with his assistants (including William Etty). Woman (c1796-8), Sir Samuel Shepherd (c1796) & Satan Summoning his Legions (1796-7). The latter may have been inspired by Henry Fuseli.

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$1796 to reach our final stretch goal! Everything must go! Your opportunity to get the EVS/Sweeny jam cover ends when the campaign ends, which is in about a week! Holy crap! It's almost over! https://t.co/sc3h4zVQBi

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🌄 Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds: .
London: Printed and sold by the author . . ;1794-1796.
https://t.co/92CscBqf4w

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"So sparrows are not acute and crafty birds but that behave in an idiotic manner!" Charles writing to Arthur Butler on 9 May 1877 https://t.co/AQTh6VrqNJ Passer domesticus, house sparrow by William MacGillivray (1796-1852)

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"Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis" (ca. 1794-1796) by Henry Fuseli (1741–1825). Oil on canvas; 126 cm x 101 cm (49.6 in x 39.7 in). Aargauer Kunsthaus.

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Le 29 mars 1796, François Athanase Charette de La Contrie est fusillé à l'âge de 32 ans à Nantes. Napoléon Ier dit de lui : « Charette me laisse l'impression d'un grand caractère, je lui vois faire des choses d'une énergie, d'une audace peu communes ; il laisse percer du génie. »

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29 mars 1796 : Exécution à Nantes de François-Athanase Charette de La Contrie dit Charrette, chef de l’armée catholique et royale du Bas-Poitou et du Pays de Retz.

Lors de son exécution, il obtient de demander au peloton : « Lorsque je fermerai les yeux, tirez droit au cœur ».

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Le 29 mars 1796, « Charette » est fusillé.
Il est le général de l'armée royaliste lors de la guerre de Vendée.
Brave parmi les braves, il fait face à la mort en refusant de se faire bander les yeux et en donnant, lui même, l'ordre de tirer à ses bourreaux.

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🌄 Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds: .
London: Printed and sold by the author . . ;1794-1796.
https://t.co/MKRMnkHuDe

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Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French painter.

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🔎 Musei Leveriani explicatio, anglica et latina
[London]: Impensis Jacobi Parkinson, 1792-1796.
https://t.co/8t3rUmyVB5

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On President's Day I find myself writing about Gilbert Stuart's 1796 Athenaeum portrait of Washington. (In 1980 the Boston Athenaeum sold it to and .)

Acquired by the Athenaeum in advance of the 1832 GW centenary, you know it from the $1 bill.

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James Macpherson (d. 1796) was "a mountebank, a liar, & a fraud”, Dr Johnson wrote & his "Ossian" was a forgery. It was, but it hit the European mindscape like a bomb and he became one of the foremost spiritual fathers of the Romantic Age. More on:
https://t.co/KmJVSw4vhs

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New Suite of Portfolios of Flowers Ideal to Use for Designing and Painting: Floral Fantasies, Anne Allen, c. 1796 https://t.co/c9swpIM8vp

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