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"... and a star to steer her by" (John Masefield)
A more recent sailors' superstition has it that a tattoo of a compass rose or the North Star helps to guide you safe an sound back home again
🎨 Aivazovsky (1849)
#folklorethursday
ウォルター・フィッチ「蘭科百選」(1849)
https://t.co/jQF9jvdjMy
19世紀のヨーロッパで熱狂的に愛好された、華やかな色彩とグロテスクとも言える独特の形態をもつ熱帯の蘭を100種類紹介した図鑑「蘭科百選」第1巻より、バルボフィラム属の蘭です。
#天牛書店Images #イラスト #orchid #植物
Midsummer Magic: this week's #TuesdayTale is that of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with enigmatic paintings by Edwin Landseer (1851), Joseph Noel Paton (1849), Richard Dadd (1854-8) & John Simmons (1870).
#otd 1889, 23-yr-old Dublin-born #BedfordPk poet #Yeats, lectures at Southwark Irish Literary Society on one of his heroes, Dublin-born poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) who first brought the "ghazal" to poetry in English with his translations of Hafiz
Arnold Böcklin
Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine (c1849) #ArnoldBöcklin
「蘭科百選」(1849)
https://t.co/ImFvy35sxP
19世紀のヨーロッパで熱狂的に愛好された熱帯の蘭を100種類紹介した図鑑「A Century of Orchidaceous Plants(蘭科百選)」収録の図版。
こちらはCatasetum globiflorumです。
#天牛書店Images #イラスト #洋らん #カタセタム #ボタニカルアート #orchid
Listening to @LinneanSociety : 'Stories from Plant Collections'. and @fungi_flowers talking about Taro. From the @V_and_A collection: 'Taro Potato Leaf' and 'Bellflowers' painted in Japan ca. 1808-1809, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). E.1307-1916
St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness by Anton Raphael Mengs (ca. 1760s)
St. John the Baptist by Alexandre Cabanel (1849)
St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Cristoforo Savolini (ca. 1670)
St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Guido Reni (ca. 1636)
Eva Gonzalez (b. #OTD in 1849) and Gustave Caillebotte were among the mid-19th c. artists who painted subjects surveying the new sandstone apartment buildings and wide boulevards of modern Paris from their balconies.
#Impressionism #Haussmann
#BorisJohnson se marca un naúfrago "plumber's crack" en la parodia de @DaveBrownToons de la marina "El rescate" (1849) del pintor ruso Iván Aivazovski (1817 - 1900)
➕#humor & #arte / #art #cartoon #cartoons #CartoonArt
👉https://t.co/9i5KzOsnWA
Kronborg Castle in Moonlight (1849), Johan Christian Dahl, [3632 x 2610] #Artdaily #artgallery #RT
Rainstorm beneath the summit, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Stormy sea at Night, by Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky (1849). Pavlovsk Palace.
Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin (1821-1892)
Russian artist
"Folk-hero Ian Usmovets Stopping an Angry Bull" (1849), Oil on canvas
Far Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk, Russia