The Horse Fair (1852–55), by Rosa Bonheur

The scene is the horse market in Paris, and the dome of La Salpêtrière is visible in the background.

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A sombre 14 September 1852, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington passed away at Walmer Castle, he was 83 years old.

He had likely suffered a series of strokes overnight & his condition deteriorated.

He was moved from his bed to a chair where he expired at 3pm.

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The cousins: Queen Victoria and Victoire, Duchesse de Nemours, by German painter Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1852). Royal Collection.

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This is the first surviving photograph of the Moon. John Adams Whipple, born 200 years ago today, took it through Harvard's Great Refractor in 1852, blazing the dawn of astrophotography and revolutionizing our orientation to the ephemeral and the eternal https://t.co/rv5GqwPva9

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“So, dream thy dreams, O Faust, until we meet once more!” (Goethe)

🎨 Carl Gustav Carus "Faust's Dream" (1852)

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August Hagborg (født 26. maj 1852 i Gøteborg, død 30. april 1921 i Paris)

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Orientalist Interior: Nude in a Harem, ca. 1851–1852, by Théodore Chassériau

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Paul Bourget (2 Sep 1852 - 25 Dec 1935), French novelist and critic.

"A master of the psychological novel and a molder of opinion among French conservative intellectuals in the pre-World War I period."

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Study for ‘Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante’, 1852 https://t.co/96Nbuuhq5k

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‘The Emperor’ by James Carroll Beckwith (American, 1852-1917).

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Sparrow on camellia branch, by Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu), ca. 1847-1852

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Emmy Thornam - 1852-1935, b. Horsens, Denmark

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