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These wonderful caricatures of skaters by 'M' [Lord Archibald Campbell] can be found in 'The Skating Club Scrapbook' with contributions from the 1840s to the 1910s. The (now) Royal Skating Club, is England's oldest skating club https://t.co/jtzmybzQXa
#Archive30 #SportArchives
Getting ready for my speedy trip to Baltimore for this year's @ASECSOffice conference and so am, of course, thinking of 1840s and 50s Baltimore album quilts. They're one of my favourite American quilt types! These are from @metmuseum, @Americanmuseum, @colonialwmsburg, and @LACMA
💫 When Southport became a seaside resort for wealthy families in the 1840s, many hotels, restaurants & theatres were built including the Garrick Theatre.
Heralded as Southport’s most stylish era, this is depicted in 'Southport for a Holiday in Wintertime' by Fortunino Matania.
In 1840s Fife, a deserted spouse could have their marriage annulled if they set a place at the dinner table and shouted out the door for the absent spouse to come eat.
After a year plus one day, they were free to marry again.
#OldWeirdScotland
Born #onthisday1815 Thomas Couture French history #painter & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s
Tsar Alexander I died #OTD in 1825 in mysterious circumstances, leading to theories that he faked his death and re-emerged as village elder Fyodor Kuzmich in the 1840s.
Either way, our manga Alexander by @Tookunami is now available as a mug and art print. Links below 👇
Judas's real form and all of thier main skins they've had over the years
First one was a Komodo dragon named Warrin that Judas took shorty after getting left on earth in 1701
Second was the borzoi Abraham. Judas took him in the 1840s
Then the thylacine Topher in the 1980s
England had been experiencing a religious revival in the 1840s. Rossetti was caught up in the fervour. St Catherine (1857), The Lady of Shallot (1857) & The Tune of Seven Towers (1857)
Peder Balke, «From the North Cape», late 1840s 🎨 Photo: @nasjonalmuseet / Børre Høstland #Norway #art #kunst
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, The Good Argument, 1840s https://t.co/odDO8HJ7z9 #honorévictorindaumier
#NationalFishingMonth starts today! You’d be surprised to catch these beautiful exotic fish in Surrey but we love these watercolours by John Harrison Scott, artist and colour merchant, whose family resided at Hersham Lodge, near Esher, c.1820s-1840s (SHC ref 4220/1)
@NFMUK
It's always nice to be required to consult our wonderful collection of illustrations of county bridges, surveyed for the Devon Quarter Sessions courts in the 1840s.
Spiritualism: A Religious Movement of the 1800s - #Spiritualism was a religious movement that first appeared in the 1840s. It happened in upstate New York in what was called the “Burned-over ... https://t.co/B89FXvZUp6 #19thcentury #SundayBlogShare
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Born #OnThisDay in 1806: Scottish painter #DanielMacnee (1806-82)
Portrait of Louisa Balfour, Mrs James Mackenzie of Craigpark (1779-1859), ca. 1840s-50s
#Macnee #ScottishArt
In the 1840s the critics still failed to recognise his genius. However in 1845 Baudelaire took up his cause. He declared Corot as the leader of the modern school of landscape painting. Louise Claire Sennegon (1837), The Artist’s Niece (1837), Silenus (1838) & Young Woman (1838)