"... 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)

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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。

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Midsummer Magic: this week's 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).

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1889, 23-yr-old Dublin-born poet 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

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Arnold Böcklin
Mondscheinlandschaft mit Ruine (c1849)

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「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。

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Listening to : 'Stories from Plant Collections'. and talking about Taro. From the collection: 'Taro Potato Leaf' and 'Bellflowers' painted in Japan ca. 1808-1809, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). E.1307-1916

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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)

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Le genre de tableau qui me donne envie de me jeter à l’intérieur et de me promener en pleine nature ! 🍃

« Kindred Spirits » (1849) Asher Brown Durand 🌳

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Eva Gonzalez (b. 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.

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se marca un naúfrago "plumber's crack" en la parodia de de la marina "El rescate" (1849) del pintor ruso Iván Aivazovski (1817 - 1900)

➕#humor & /
👉https://t.co/9i5KzOsnWA

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Kronborg Castle in Moonlight (1849), Johan Christian Dahl, [3632 x 2610]

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"Waiting up for him, Venice" (1849) by Carlo Bossoli

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Steigen (1849) by Norwegian artist Peder Balke 🎨

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My derivative has been minted and is healing nicely, super hyped for the exhibition!!! Thank you (punk and (BAYC for generously allowing me to use these NFTs!!!

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Rainstorm beneath the summit, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

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"Tokaido hodogaya" A painting by Japanese artist, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

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Eunice Pinney (1770-1849) -

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Stormy sea at Night, by Russian painter Ivan Aivazovsky (1849). Pavlovsk Palace.

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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

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