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Augustus V. Waller was born in 1816. experimented on frogs in 1850, by severing their glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal The phenomenon of degeneration that followed, today bears his name.

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2020-12-21

The following are aquatints of Waterloo by C. Turner and J. Booth from 1816.

I did have a tinker with this one.

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2020-11-25

1816. 크리스탈 오브 리유니온 - 한니발

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2020-10-28

Watercolour by William Hooker of the apple 'The Scarlet Nonpareille'

This is taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' which were commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit. The painting is dated 1816.

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2020-10-22

Colchicums are a fantastic flower for autumn colour.

This illustration is a colour engraved plate from Volume 8 of Pierre-Joseph Redouté's 'Les Liliacées', after an original by Redouté published between 1802-1816. We hold a copy in The Lindley Library collection.

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2020-10-20

This week's post is on 'The Animal Kingdom: Arranged According to its Organization...'. It is an English translation of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier’s 'Le Règne Animal,' which was first published in 1816. Learn more: https://t.co/uOGi7EIsNy

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2020-10-05

Bombardment of Algiers, 1816.
Painting by George Chambers (1803-1840).
National Maritime Museum

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2020-07-27

Thomas Rowlandson's caricature, Death and the Antiquaries, 1816. A group of antiquaries cluster eagerly around the exhumed corpse of a king. The image was inspired by the opening of the tomb of Edward I in Westminster Abbey by the Society of Antiquaries in 1774.

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2020-05-05

Mulready’s work was appreciated by his Victorian audience. In 1815 he became an associate of the RA & full member in 1816. That latter year he was awarded the Legion of Honour by France. The Village Buffoon (1816), The Fight Interrupted (1816) & The Sleeping Shepherd (1828)

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2020-01-28

Viscount Hood, Nelson's mentor, died in 1816.

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2020-01-27

This week in 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein was published anonymously in London with 500 copies printed. She was 21. Shelley had started writing it at age 18, on 16 Jun 1816. https://t.co/zetGLbQo3K

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2020-01-04

You can see similar military-inspired details in this fashion plate from 'La Belle Assemblée', 1816.

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2019-12-17

The Magic Flute, The Hall of Stars in the Palace of the Queen of the Night, design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1816.

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2019-12-10

Couple in love in moonshine (German: Liebespaar bei Vollmondnacht am Flussufer mit Ruinen) - Jakob Alt, 1816.

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2019-09-22

'Tragedy and Comedy' - Sarah Siddons (tragedienne) (left) was born 1755, and Dorothea Jordan (comedic actress), (right) died 1816.

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2019-07-05

The Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, rented by Lord for the summer of 1816. In the Villa that summer, Mary Shelley would be inspired to write & Byron's doctor John Polidori would write The Vampyre, one of the 1st novels.

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George III born in 1738.Some of George III-related special collection items include his wife's signature from 1816. The work is decorated with Strelitzia (#birdofparadise), a genus named after Queen Charlotte's birthplace, the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

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2018-06-04

George Scharf made hundreds of views of London after settling in England in 1816. On the River Thames, Bermondsey, May 1827. https://t.co/AN8OY0mXWT

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2018-05-31

François Guillaume Ménageot.1744-1816. Male Nude. Private collection.

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2018-04-24

1815 Mount Tambora in Indonesia experienced a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, which killed around 71,000 people and caused a global volcanic winter that led to the infamous Year Without a Summer in 1816.

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