The Cottingley appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in 1917. In the early 1980s, Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked, using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time

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Albert Pinkham Ryder died in 1917. Sadly, because of his layering of paint upon varnish, many paintings are unstable & cracking—some have even disintegrated.

The Flying Dutchman
Pegasus Departing
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens

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The Great Square Etching with aquatint by Lt Cyril Henry Barraud, Canadian War Office official artist, October, 1917. Gives a good sense, I think, of the utter desolation visited on the city by German bombardment. The ruins seem almost to be dissolving into the ground

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Good afternoon Twitter!
You would not credit the extraordinary colours my "new" eye can now see.
The French impressionist Monet's colour palette changed in later life...because of his cataracts, it's been suggested.
Spot on! 1897, then twenty years later in 1917.

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Hello, viv!
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Why did mihawks sexyness never hit me until one piece episode 917. Holy shit look at him

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Wishing everyone a very happy & peaceful Christmas & good health & best wishes for the A huge thank you for following Here's a card from 1918 & photo of having Christmas dinner in 1917.

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Fairy tales and the park: Tales of the Persian genii, by FJ Olcott, 1917........https://t.co/ok91VRwate

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The Wave, 1917.

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson.

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Felice sera a tutti 🎀
🎨Guy Rose - Laguna di eucalipti, 1917.

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"I feel that a real living form is the natural result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown"

O'Keeffe. Nude Series VI, 1917. Watercolor on paper. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © GOKM [2006.5.70]⁠

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Hoje, o Google lembra os 194 anos de Maria Firmina dos Reis, que nasceu em São Luís do Maranhão, em 11 de outubro de 1825 e faleceu em 11 de novembro de 1917. Segue uma mini thread sobre essa que foi considerada a primeira romancista brasileira.

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Mexican wrestling legend El Santo was born on this date in 1917.

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"Verdun" 1917...Oil on canvas by (Swiss/French,1865-1925)...#Swiss born painter.

WWI..

Painting of the battle of

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Arthur Rackham (17/09/1867-07/09/1939) est un artiste britannique 🇬🇧 illustrateur de nombreux contes.
The Old Woman in the Woods, 1917. Peter Pan, 1906. Lovers, 1911.

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Edgar Degas.1834-1917. Academic Study.1858.

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We’ve got so many wonderful works in our collection celebrating all styles of dance. And since today is it feels like the perfect time to share this one! Manner of Auguste Rodin, Cambodian Dancer, 1850–1917. The Clark, 1955.1525

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An adorable image from our from 1917. Little girl with magic telescope. Little folk provide a magic telescope so that a human girl can see - 'Oh, what did she see ?' Illustration by Duncan Carse in Lucy Scott's Dewdrops from Fairyland ©Mary Evnas

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I made scary dude look good. After Lev Bakst, by Amedeo Modigliani, 1917.

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The Kremlin in the March sunlight, 1917. A moment, captured by Leonid Pasternak who was born on this day in 1862.

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