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Hero, Edward Burne-Jones, C19th.

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2022-01-24

The final title in our feature is “Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century”.
“A sumptuous companion volume”—Eve M. Kahn, Apollo
Features diverse artistic expressions C19th-C21st.
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2021-12-16

author of was born on 8th Nov 1847 in Dublin. He spent most of his life in England & a holiday in proved his inspiration. Part of his novel is set there - it is where Dracula lands. Images: views of Whitby by Atkinson Grimshaw, late C19th.

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2021-11-08

Today's pic is of St Anne's Church, Highgate Hill. Grade-II listed. Built 1853, restored late C19th. I'll add it to a corner in my Camden churches gallery.

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2021-10-22

Murder of Hiram Sawtelle: A Cain and Abel Story - Hiram Sawtelle and Isaac Sawtelle were the sons Hiram F. Sawtelle. The elder Hiram was born in 1812 and became a carpenter. Because he whistled ... https://t.co/AOI5DOjvEk

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2021-10-07

The crystal ball was very popular in the mid C19th as fortune tellers strove to stay within the law by shaking off the vestiges of folk magic. It was used by clairvoyants to scry for images of the future & by occultists to get in touch with angels & the dead.

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2021-09-10

For anyone in stormy seas -

Amelia Jane Murray - A Fairy Waving Her Magic Wand Across a Stormy Sea, C19th.

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2021-09-08

HAVING YOUR BUMPS FELT merges the pseudoscience of phrenology & quack medicines of the mid-C19th & C20th. Such cure-alls sought to redress general & specific physical imbalance or implied social inadequacy, notably targeting 'women's problems' or 'hysterical women'.

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2021-08-24

Time for tea and a frog.
🫖 🐸

A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, Randolph Caldecott, C19th.

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2021-08-19

My favourite spectral painting - The drowned man's ghost tries to claim a new victim for the sea, Thorvald Niss, C19th.

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2021-08-18

🎨 The Lone Wolf, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, C19th.
🎨 "When she got to the wood, she met a Wolf", Arthur Rackham, 1909.

Peter and the Wolf 🎼: https://t.co/E979mk8My7

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2021-08-13

Louis Philippe I: King of the French From 1830 to 1848 - Born on 6 October 1773, became King of the French from 1830 to 1848. He was the son of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and ... https://t.co/03eIUlAQdQ

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2021-07-22

Spiritualism: A Religious Movement of the 1800s - was a religious movement that first appeared in the 1840s. It happened in upstate New York in what was called the “Burned-over District” where ... https://t.co/HK3JzIuzk8

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2021-07-08

Jobs for Horses: What Work They Did in the 1800s - Plenty of jobs for existed in the nineteenth century. For instance, because these animals were the primary means of transportation, ... https://t.co/zCWmBjjwlU

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2021-04-15

An undine is a water nymph who gains a soul when she marries a human, but will die if he is unfaithful to her. A version of this myth was a popular C19th novella, wherein Undine returns to the water & her kiss kills her unfaithful husband. Img: Rackham, 1909

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2021-04-13

'Sunday in Scotland' and 'Sunday in England'. Watercolours by C19th Edinburgh surgeon-artist Charles Bell. Guess which one had a good Saturday night!

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2021-04-07

“Wallflower, Wallflower, growing up so high. We great ladies don’t wish to die.” A C19th game. When your name is sung, you keep holding hands in a circle but turn to face the other way. This goes on until all are facing the other way, thus escaping death. (CMB)

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2021-02-25

Wynken, Blynken, & Nod one
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light
into a sea of dew...”
A C19th bedtime by Eugene Field
by Margaret Tarrant

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2021-02-22

C19th illustrations of sea creatures from 'Life Beneath the Waves', a description of the Aquarium, published in 1871. Do you have childhood memories of a visit to the Aquarium?

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2021-01-27