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The next big thing in ladies fashions, #London November 1829: A satire on the first appearance of the long fur boa, a fashion which survived until the 1880s
In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler reinvented himself as an artist and bolstered his career with watercolor. https://t.co/RjnHmZr3Yf
First developed in the 1880s as a French literary movement, Symbolism was quickly embraced by a young generation of artists who rejected Impressionism's preoccupation with the visible world, believing that art should primarily reflect emotions and ideas... https://t.co/AG7JIJPQ3q
@PonteCastle is celebrating #YorkshireDay with a Victorian garden party! The castle grounds were turned into pleasure gardens in the 1880s – just one of many fascinating stories in our upcoming family activity trail for @WFMuseums.
6) ReoMabu's military uniform is based on the Japanese police of the 1880s
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With his Society connections, #JamesTissot discreetly executed about forty portraits of aristocratic French women and other beautiful, wealthy women in sumptuous Belle Époque settings from the mid-1880s to the early 1890s, most often using pastels. 8/8
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Samuel Steinberger was one of many Jewish immigrants who poured into New York's ports from Eastern Europe as oppression mounted in the 1880s. He made this quilt with remnants of satin and velvet from his tailoring business. See it in Made in New York City→https://t.co/WfVHfTlz5M
Some clothing and hair referenced from pictures from the 1880s. So cool to draw styles from the past!
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Bertha Wegmann (Danish painter) 1847 - 1926
French Landscape with Willow Trees along a Road, 1880s.
The paperback of Mrs Whistler is out in exactly one month! Here's one of my favourite #Whistler paintings of Maud Franklin, a watercolour from the early 1880s. W's butterfly signature can just be seen on the bed sheet. @BoroughPress @AMHeathLtd
Kate Greenaway captures the March mood #almanack #1880s #kategreenaway #digichildlit https://t.co/M6CB2WOjSS
Illustrations from 1880s children’s book, The Discontented Frogs. Based on one of Aesop’s fables.
“With this I will finish, my dear little friends,
And this precept, I hope you will keep;
Be content, if you can, with the blessings you have,
But always look well, ere you leap.”
Kay Nielsen's illustrations for East of the Sun, West of the Moon, a collection of icy fairytales rich with noble bears, howling winds & pine forests–gathered by Norwegian folklorists Ambjørnsen & Engebretsen Moe on their journeys across Norway in the 1880s. #FolkloreThursday