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The Antwerp giant Druon Antigoon
16th-c. drawing (c. 1556?, Valenciennes, BM, 805, f.23)
Head (c. 1534-1535, Antwerp MAS)
Giant (c. 2000)
#OnThisDay 1805, the meeting between Francis II and Napoleon is organised at Sarutschitz, in Moravia. "I receive you in the only palace I have lived in these past two months”. (Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros, 1812).
#OnThisDay in 1805, in one of the most decisve naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French & Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar.
22 septembre 1890 : Décès d’Auguste Mayer, peintre français
Le redoutable à Trafalgar, 1805, Musée de la Marine, Paris
Une très belle page sur cette bataille par @Trois_Ponts
https://t.co/epZbuDH8XG
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"Plum Pudding". The famous eighteenth century British caricaturist James Gillray’s most famous print, from 1805, shows William Pitt and Napoleon seated at table, carving up the world between them to consume it. #illustration #cartoon
A fashion mishap for these intrepid #gloriousGeorgians! Chemise a la rain. Or an excellent shift for bad weather!!!, 1805, via the British Museum.
#Space: IC 1805, the Heart #Nebula, glows brightly in red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen
https://t.co/1Uhj8gHOTp via @apod
18 avril 1773: naissance de Giuseppina Grassini, chanteuse d'opéra italienne.
➡️Giuseppina Grassini dans le rôle de Zaïre, 1805, par Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842).
➡️Giuseppina Grassini, par Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist.
HMS Pomone, a 38-gun Leda-class frigate, built for the Royal Navy in 1805, and wrecked in 1811 while attempting to pass the Needles at night on her way to Portsmouth.
#NapoleonicWars #Tallships #RoyalNavy
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kumagusuku Christmas Market 2019
12 / 21 sta 22 sun
12 : 00 - 19 : 30
at kumagusuku
37-3 Mibubaba-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-8805, JAPAN
〒604-8805 京都市中京区壬生馬場町37-3
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17 (ou 18?) novembre 1804 : lancement à Rochefort du 74 canons l'Achille, qui prit notamment part à la bataille de Trafalgar en 1805, sous le commandement du CV Deniéport. Le vaisseau explosa durant le combat, 425 hommes sur les 700 de son équipages furent tués, dont Deniéport.
James Ward, born OTD in 1769, was an admired painter of animals. Around 1800 the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to paint a series documenting breeds of British livestock. "Two Extraordinary Oxen" (1814, National Museum Wales); Gloucestershire Old Spot (1800-1805, YCBA)9/14
A few Hubble palettes from last few years all captured under S Norfolk skies
NGC2244, IC1805, IC 1396 and Sh 2 155
#astrophotography
Q56732805, Militão Augusto de Azevedo, Militão Augusto de Azevedo collection https://t.co/xFmhVYBY4V #wikidata #digitalart #photo (Palette: #Emigre29) 🖌🎨
"an animal of a truly singular and nouvel description was killed by dogs the 30 march on a hill immediately contiguous to the settlement at Yorkton Port Dalrymple"
The Sydney Gazette on the 1st Thylacine killed by Europeans in 1805, 131 years later species was extinct