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Sheridan Le Fanu died #OTD in 1873. One of his best-known works, the lesbian vampire novella 'Carmilla,' predates Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (1897) by 26 years. Some critics suggest that 'Carmilla' was an important influence on Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw' (1898)
Today is #WorldWetlandsDay2022 raising awareness about the role of wetlands for people and planet.
We taking the opportunity to highlight wetland birds with these #lithographs from John Gould's 'Birds of Europe', 1873. Great crested grebe, moorhens and kingfisher.
Are you taking part in the #BigGardenBirdWatch over the #weekend? These are some of the birds you may be lucky enough to spot. #SciArt are all #lithographs published in John Gould's 'Birds of Europe', 1837, & 'Birds of Great Britain', 1873.
Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883) ~
La dive bouteille (The divine bottle), wood engraving, 1873.
Lithograph of a Wood Pigeon from John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain’; printed in sections 1862-1873. Two versions are shown, to emphasise the ‘hand-coloured’ aspect of these early publications, with sets of pages possibly tinted by different craftspeople.
Detail of a vignette, Illustration by Gustave Doré for the works of Rabelais, 1873.
Is it just us... or does it feel like we are doing #autumn twice this year? 🍂
🖼️ Hippolyte Boulenger, Autumn Morning. Anseremme, Oil on Canvas, 1872-1873.
🦌 Die Gliedertheir-fauna des Sansibar-gebietes: .
Leipzig: C. F. Winter, 1873.
https://t.co/C8bnjm2xyu
Death of St Iria – Václav Brožík, 1873.
(Olomouc Museum of Art).
#summer #estate
Édouard Manet, "Sulla spiaggia", 1873.
#art #paintings #edouardmanet
🦴 Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou, Recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes /
Genève: H. Georg, 1854-1873.
https://t.co/eH43pIn4GG
“Primavera” es una pintura realizada por el pintor academicista francés Pierre-Auguste Cot realizada en 1873.
Paul Cézanne, "Pommes vertes", 1873.
Miam !
#Cezanne #PaulCezanne #Vert #YoyoMaeght #Artmoderne #art1870 #miam #vert #pommes
🦴 Matériaux pour la paléontologie suisse, ou, Recueil de monographies sur les fossiles du Jura et des Alpes /
Genève: H. Georg, 1854-1873.
https://t.co/UBYbZL8bxf
To commemorate the Wisconsin hunting tradition this #Feathursday we present some wood engravings of game birds from 'American Game in its Seasons' by Henry William Herbert (aka Frank Forester) printed in New York by Poole & MacLauchlan in 1873. Learn more: https://t.co/6xVdQ4HBO7
Springtime is a painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot, completed in 1873. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.