In "The Butterfly" (1861) by Hans Christian Anderson, a butterfly seeks a flower for a wife. He courts several flowers through spring & summer, but can't decide which to marry. Come autumn, he's too old to marry, & the flowers have lost their fragrance.

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‘There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.’
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet and Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70.

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Дорога, освещаемая луной. 1874
Джон Эткинсон Гримшоу (1836-1893, Лидс)
В1861 году, женатый двадцатипятилетний клерк железнодорожной компании, несмотря на протесты родителей, бросает работу и решает посвятить свою жизнь искусству.

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Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 – September 10, 1940) was an American artist,

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Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 – September 10, 1940) was an American artist,

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Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 – September 10, 1940) was an American artist,

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View from Livadia
was created in 1861
by Ivan Aivazovsky
in Romanticism style.
Aivazovsky contributed over
6,000 paintings to the art
world ranging from his early
landscapes of the Crimean
countryside to the seascapes
& coastal scenes.

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Ethnographical Map of Europe, in the Earliest Times, 1861.

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Connaissez-vous Étienne Denisse ? Botaniste et horticulteur français (1785-1861), il a illustré l’ouvrage « La flore d’Amérique dessinée d'après nature sur les lieux (...) », paru à Paris en 1843-1846. FR ANOM BIB SOM F99 🌺

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Καλημέρα.Herbert Arnould Olivier (9 September 1861 – 2 March 1952) was a British artist

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🎨Herbert Arnould OLIVIER (1861-1952)
Summer is Icumen

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Oscar Adam Otto William Matthiesen (Danish painter, 1861-1957): Scanian Dragoons Ride for Bath)1906

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You look across the fruit and flowers,
My glance your glances find.
It is our secret, only ours,
Since all the world is blind.
~ Amy Levy (1861-89)

~ Thierry Marchal 🎨

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