Nubian women at Kortie on the Nile illustration by David Roberts (1796–1864). Original from The New York Public Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
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Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs (1864) by Frederic William Burton (1816-1900). Taken from a medieval Danish ballad. Hellelil falls love with Hildebrand, Prince of Engelland. Her father disapproves & orders her seven brothers to kill the young prince.

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Hellelil and Hildebrand, the meeting on the turret stairs (1864) by Frederic William Burton (Ireland, 1816-1900). Chosen as ‘Ireland’s Favourite Painting’ in 2012.

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The irreducible majesty of Ancient Egyptian ruins: David Roberts (1796–1864)

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Since I am loitering at Zurich airport, here are a few landscapes by Swiss painter Alexandre Calame (1810–1864)

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Alexandre Calame (Swiss, b.1810, d.1864),
The Sycamores.
Date: 1854
Oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 27 1/8in. (54.3 x 68.9cm)
Cincinnati Art Museum.

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Differing gender-based conceptions of personal space in Daumier’s “In the Omnibus” (1864). This was 150+ years ago, but I guess some things never change…

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"Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe" (1864) increased the number of sponge species known from the Caribbean by fivefold. Most of those described belong to the Class Demospongiae. Explore the work in via ➡️ https://t.co/xu7Go6Gxd4

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Lacaze-Duthiers' "Histoire naturelle du corail" (1864) provides a scholarly history of the study of corals along with details on physiology, reproduction & larval metamorphosis. Explore it in via https://t.co/8DLRKKwcZI

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Happy Celebrate with beautiful by Pauquet in Prévost & Lemaire's "Histoire naturelle des oiseaux exotiques" (1864). This work features 80 plates showing 200 subjects. Digitized in by : https://t.co/tIda1yFjov

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"Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe" (1864) included 25 hand-colored lithographs based on drawings made from living specimens - which was important as sponges change color & shape when removed from water. View the in via https://t.co/0Mt5N6ELVU

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Camilla as Madame Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz X. Winterhalter (1864)

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Herbert James Draper (November 1863 (or 1864) – 22 September 1920) was an English Classicist painter whose career began in the Victorian era and extended through the first two decades of the 20th century.

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Man Proposes, God Disposes - Edwin Henry Landseer - Oil on Canvas (1864). Rumored to drive test-taking students mad when they sit by it.

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Green Summer (1864)
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

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Fishing Boat Coming in Before the Wind (also known ... (1864) from Manet on

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"Memory of Mortefontaine" by Camille (1864).

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