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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
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
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
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
Take a look at J.M.W. Turner's "Oberwesel," 1840. This transcendent view looks down the Rhine River from hillside vineyards in Germany.
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
Austrian #artist Hans Makart was born #OnThisDay in 1840.
Pic: "Abundantia" at the @MuseeOrsay
#art #painter
Giuseppe Bezzuoli (1784-1855) Santa Filomena, 1840. Cattedrale, #Pistoia.
Happy birthday to Claude Monet born on this day in 1840. Celebrate with "Nympheas," on view: https://t.co/kjqxk0yiGA
Claude Monet, born in Paris on this day in 1840.
Today let us remember the peace, calm and beauty he gave the world