'whether we be young or old,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort, and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be'

William Wordsworth, The Prelude (1850)

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Thomas Richard Williams (1825-1871)
The Sands of Time, 1850-1852
Stereo-daguerreotype

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Edward's Arm in the hands of his Medical Advisers, 1850. Possibly a of Edward I by John Leech

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Daily thing Fanart of Cleocatra from

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Coming next week at "The Wise and the Foolish Virgins" (oil on paper on board, 50x83cm) - a sketch for one of the by (1850-1917) -

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More tales from the Empire of the Vegetables: French artist, Amédée Varin. 1850s. I featured some of his work recently; how could I pass up on that first one though.

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These vibrant floral illustrations are hand-colored lithographs from volume 3 of Asa Strong’s 4-volume work 'The American Flora,' published in New York by Green & Spencer between 1850 and 1853, with illustrations by Edwin Whitefield. More here: https://t.co/z72dY0Fqgq

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➺ John Collier (1850-1934)

... Priestess Of Delphi (1891) ...

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William Bouguereau (William-Adolphe Bouguereau)

Idillio "Idylle" (1850).

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Happy

Cat with kittens by Franz Hegi (1774-1850) after Gottfried Mind (1768-1814)

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Tales from the Empire of the Vegetables: French artist, Amédée Varin. 1850s.

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Aivazovsky :
- La Neuvième Vague (1850)
- Darial Gorge (1862)
- Coucher du soleil (1866)
- La Bataille de Chesmé (1848)

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Wintry forest landscape with a farmstead.
Louis Apol (1850 - The Hague - 1936)
Private collection.

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Louis Apol (Dutch, 1850-1936)
Walking along a water-way in winter.
Oil on canvas 41 x 54 cm.
Private collection.

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Clasina Maria ‘Sien’ Hoornik (1850–1904) was a sex worker & muse to Vincent Van Gogh in the 1880s. In 1883, she told Van Gogh “what the bad moods are is still more desperate - it's bound to end up with me jumping into the water”. In 1904, Sien drowned herself in the Schelde river

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Ladislas Wladislaw Von Czachorski 1850-1922
The Bouquet

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