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Port Nicholson, from the hills above Pitone in 1840., Charles Heaphy, @te_papa https://t.co/fd5vHSiPMP #wikidata #digitalart #lithograph (Palette: #MagentaConverse) 🖌🎨
German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.
Caspar David Friedrich, died #onthisday in 1840.
In his paintings he often drew inspiration from České Středohoří (Central Bohemian Uplands) and Krkonoše (Giant Mountains)
A man reading Kabul Akhbar (newspaper), Afghanistan, 1840. By James Atkinson. https://t.co/3UPqh8w2Cz
Sir Benjamin Baker was born #onthisday 1840. #Forth Bridge, Aswan Dam and London Metropolitan Railway. He designed the boat which transported Cleopatra's needle.
Victorians were worried about the rising crime rate: offences went up from 5,000/year in 1800 to 20,000/year in 1840. They were firm believers in punishment for criminals but what should the punishment be? Find out:
https://t.co/jox7oqAO7B #history #historyteacher #Victorians
These adorable outraged British citizens demanding that new-fangled export pale ale (aka the IPA) be sold domestically. Patience 19th century geeks, the IPA style will take off in 1840.
English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright, Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay), died #otd 1840.
This lithograph view by printmaker and draughtsman Thomas Shotter Boys looks east to John Rennie’s New London Bridge in c. 1840. The view appears to have been captured from the first Southwark Bridge, also by Rennie. Image © Trustees of the @BritishMuseum
This amazing #notebook records coins from a Roman denarius hoard found in York in 1840. They were dispersed in the large collection of @yorkshiremuseum for over a century until a student came and painstakingly reconnected them with their original provenance in 2017. #Museum30
French sculptor Auguste Rodin was born on this date in 1840. This is "I am Beautiful." #art @rodinmuseum
Utagawa Hiroshige, Nakatsugawa from the 69 Stations of the Kisokaido, 1840.
The founder of French Impressionism, Claude Monet, was born on this date in 1840. This is "Waterlilies, night effect." #art @MuseeOrsay
10月27日はイタリア、ジェノヴァ生まれ、ヴァイオリンの歴史を変えた伝説的ヴァイオリニスト、作曲家ニコロ・パガニーニ(1782-1840.5.27)と、ドイツ、ライプツィヒ生まれ、バッハの鍵盤曲演奏の最高権威とされるヘルムート・ヴァルヒャ(1907-1991.8.11)の誕生日。
The scholar Sir John Rhys was born #onthisday, 1840. View Whitley Stokes' letters to him https://t.co/On6lMj2DRI #FindYourEpic
Twins conjoined at the head and thorax. Drawing in ink and pencil by Gijsbertus Johannes van Klinkenberg, between 1820 and 1840. #histmed
Fanny Burney, lady of letters and quintessential Georgian, died #onthisday in 1840. #twitterstorians
10月27日は、ヴァイオリンの歴史を変えた19世紀の伝説的ヴァイオリニスト兼作曲家ニコロ・パガニーニ(1782-1840.5.27)の誕生日。ヴィオラやギターの名手でもありました。
English Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon was born on this date in 1840. This is "Madonna." #art
«The Wrestling Scene in As You Like It»
Daniel Maclise, 1840.
#painting_estetico