21 May 1844 Henri Rousseau was born. He became an influential self-taught artist. of the post-impressionist school.

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1844 nacque in Francia, pittore antesignano della”Arte naïf”,un tipo di arte completamente slegata dalla realtà culturale e sociale.Non venne apprezzato e, poiché era un doganiere,in modo dispregiativo lo soprannominarono “Le Douanier”.

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Album of birds and plants (1883) by Kōno Bairei (Japan, 1844–1895). Colour woodblock.

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Album of birds and plants (1883) by Kōno Bairei (Japan, 1844–1895). Colour woodblock.

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Album of birds and plants (1883) by Kōno Bairei (Japan, 1844–1895). Colour woodblock.

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Album of birds and plants (1883) by Kōno Bairei (Japan, 1844–1895). Colour woodblock.

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They say moonlit ruins hoard undreamt dreams...

Moonlit Gothic Ruin by Sebastian Pether [1790–1844]

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6th March. 1844

I failed. How… how could this have happened?

The depth and ferocity of The Chuo’s web were deeper than we imagined

Oh, God! They’re dead. All of them… dead

How could we have been so blind? We should have known our victory was too easy.

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"I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery."

~Adelbert Von Chamisso,#OfDarkAndMacabre.

🎨Sebastian Pether (1790–1844).

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Portrait of Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Tuscany, 1817, by Pietro Benvenuti (1769-1844).

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celebrates Elijah McCoy (b. 1844), the Black Canadian-American engineer whose inventions improved the efficiency of locomotives & steam engines.

He is often cited as the inspiration for the expression, "The real McCoy"

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No title. Sea rescuers heading in a row boat to save sailors from ships in a storm

SEA RESCUE - Seenotrettung - Havarie - Sea Average

Hand-colored anonymous aquatinta

Published by William Miller (1769-1844)

Dated 1805. But watermark on paper 1817

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Album of birds and plants (1883) by Kōno Bairei (Japan, 1844–1895).

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Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1 June 1844 – 18 July 1927), Russian

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The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice. 🤺📚

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🗿 The pictorial museum of animated nature. v.1.
London: C. Cox,[1844?]
https://t.co/XPXxkVpvAg

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🎨Mary Stevenson Cassatt, aka Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)

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