Academic Study.1790/1799. Attributed to Joseph Mallord William Turner.1775-1859. Black chalk and charcoal on ivory laid paper. Art Institute of Chicago.

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☘ The common objects of the sea shore
London: Routledge, Warnes & Routledge . ., 1859.
https://t.co/BAyeBclT1k

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1859
December 02
Abolitionist John Brown is hanged
Militant abolitionist John Brown is executed on charges of treason, murder and insurrection on December 2, 1859. 

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Yard of the old, Heumüller, In Vienna by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, 1859.

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Faces upon the discovery of the Boat Place.

Harper's Weekly, October 29th 1859.

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Caricature of William Morris presenting a ring to Jane Burden, 1857. Sketched by Dante Gabriel Rossetti on the back of a study for Guenevere (Launcelot at the Shrine of the Holy Grail). I've put a filter on Jane & William image 2.

Jane married William Morris in 1859.

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'Blue Bird and Pink Flowers' - Nakayama Sugakudo, 1859.

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The Kioea (Chaetoptila angustipluma) is the last endemic Hawaiian honeyeater to be featured as a It has not been recorded since the last specimen was collected in 1859. Logging of it’s forest habitat is blamed.

Pic: Brooke Keeney/HBW

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🦎 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud: .
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
https://t.co/y3mqUsRIp8

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Not as nice a copy of the print - but here's E.L. Davenport as Benedict, also circa 1859.

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1859. 킹덤 오브 히어로즈 : 택틱스 워 - 헤르만

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1. The big one: Illustrated London News, Oct 15 1859.
2. Illustrated Times, that same day.
3. A common knockoff.
4. A French knockoff.

Note that unlike the current Greenwich photos, the original 1859 dip circle still had both eyepieces intact and a bubble level on top.

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Delacroix, Ovid among the Scythians, 1859. National Gallery (London)

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International Women's Day: another fine female coat, Frances Evans Gordon 1859.

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The Admella wrecked, Cape Banks, 6th August, 1859 – James Shaw, 1859.
(Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide).

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Art and Liberty – Louis Gallait, 1859.
(The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore).

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For 'The Lord of Nann and the (From the Breton)' by Tom Taylor, illustration by Edward Henry Corbould in Once a Week Vol.1, 1859.
Led by a white hind to the 'Corrigaun' and his doom.
First verse, massive spoiler: https://t.co/J8UMLMx8TZ

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Damned Women, Carlos Schwabe, 1900.

The Damned Woman, Nicolas Francois Octave Tassaert, 1859.

Damned Women, Auguste Rodin, 1890.

Women Damned, Georges Lacombe, 1898.

Damn!

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Glimpse the past. Pierre Edouard Frère, "La glissade" (The slide) , 1859.

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