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"Woman struggling against an autumn breeze, 1843, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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2020-05-14

Retourner, par un radieux oubli de soi, dans le Tout de la Nature, tel est le plus haut degré de la pensée, la cime sacrée, le lieu du calme éternel

Friedrich Hölderlin, 1770-1843, poète et philosophe allemand

Le Voyageur contemplant une mer de nuages - Caspar David Friedrich

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2020-02-15

in 1843, published “A Carol." Struggling to make ends meet, Dickens wrote the holiday story in just six weeks, and oversaw the printing and publishing himself. It proved to a bestseller—the first 6,000 copies printed sold out by

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2019-12-20

classic "A Christmas Carol" was first published 1843, two years after Dickens joined as a founder member.
Here's our 1845 edition of a much-loved classic:

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2019-12-19

Published in 1843, the most wonderful ghost story of Christmas - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.


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2019-12-19

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME. 3rd spirit to appear to Scrooge. 'The Phantom gravely, silently, approached, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand'. Images 1843, 1920, 1970

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2019-12-13

The modern Cromwell, 16 July 1843, by John Doyle art

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2019-11-20

But James Ward didn’t just paint farm-yard animals and horses. Left: Brown long-eared bat (watercolour, Yale Center for British Art) Right: Double Portrait of Henrietta Ward's Pet Guinea Pig (1843, Lowewood Museum) 10/14

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2019-10-24

The first Polacanthus? J.E. Lee described this section of ankylosaur sacral shield from Isle of Wight in 1843, but the story doesn’t end there. I blogged about the tale of the lost ankylosaur back in 2014: https://t.co/75bw4q66aE

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2019-01-24

classic "A Christmas Carol" is 175 years old today!!
The Christmas tale that has captured imaginations from the minute it first appeared was published 1843, two years after Dickens joined as a founder member.
Here's our 1845 edition.

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2018-12-19

In 1843, while delirious from imbibing laudanum, metapsychical artist & poet Blake William beheld a vision of an anglepoise lamp, which he immediately patented.
In punishment for his hubris the Celestial Illuminati Alliance transformed him into the constellation “The Tiger”.

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2018-07-21



is literacy of the heart.” Elliot Eisner


Rafael Monleón y Torres (1843, Valencia – 24 Nov 1900) was a Spanish artist (painting, engraving, ceramics), archaeologist, historian and naval pilot.

"Lighthouse of Calais", before 1900

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2018-03-30

Joseph Michael Gandy, ARA, 1771–1843, English artist, visionary architect and architectural theorist, The Bridge Over Chaos

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2018-01-08

Happy birthday Scrooge, Marley, one and all! "A Christmas Carol" - the Christmas tale that has captured imaginations ever since - was first published 1843, two years after its author, joined as a founder member. Here's our 1845 edition:

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2017-12-19

Art Inspiration For Today: “Mizz Fezziwig’s Ball” by Paul Leech for Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”, 1843, illustration, genre: Victorian Caricature Art Leech

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2017-12-03