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Orthoptera metamorphosis, illuminated intaglio by Johannes Augustin Rösel von Rosenhof (1705-1759). He was an important figure in modern entomology. collection

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2020-09-10

Born in 1748: French painter (1748-1825)

Portrait of Jacobus Blauw (1759-1829), 1795

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2020-08-30

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Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 - 1840)
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2020-08-29

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings.

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2020-08-28

Birth of Thomas Andrew Knight (1759-1838), RHS President. Printed lithograph by Richard James Lane after an original by Solomon Cole, 1841.

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2020-08-12

William Owen Pughe, linguist, lexicographer, grammarian, poet and antiquary who was regarded as the principal authority on the Welsh language and scholarship, was born in Llanfihangel-y-Pennant 1759 https://t.co/hvlhvOnwWz

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2020-08-07

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840) was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings.

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Painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redouté was born 1759 in Saint-Hubert (Belgian Ardennes). He became famous for his watercolours of flowers, and more particularly of roses. He worked from live plants and Empress Joséphine was his patron.

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2020-07-11

Birthday in the park: Pierre Joseph Redoute, 1759-1840, painter and botanist.........https://t.co/F4GMe6Waf7

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2020-07-10

Landscape by Haruki Nanko (1759-1839)

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2020-06-30

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings.🌼

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2020-06-27

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (July 10, 1759 - June 19, 1840, Belgian)
Rosa Centifolia. Apricot-Peach. Camellias, Narcissus and Pansies (1827)

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2020-06-26

HMS Britannia (1762) passing Mt. Edgcumbe in Plymouth Sound. She participated in the Battle of Cape Spartel, Genoa, Cape St. Vincent and Trafalgar. She was known as Old Ironsides long before USS Constitution.
Painting by John Thomas Serres (1759-1825).
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2020-06-12

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2020-05-29

Giuseppe (1712-1798)-'lesson of astronomy'-oil on canvas-(1757-1759) St Petersburg-Hermitage

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2020-05-29

"his choice of words was perfect, his voice beautiful, & his way of putting aside the question when he chose, & fascinating the minds of men, astounding."
Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire, on Pitt the Younger born 1759

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2020-05-28

Born 1759: the Younger (1759-1806), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Ireland

Portrait by (1758-1810), copy of a original of 1804

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2020-05-28

In 1741 the column base was raised on a plinth in Piazza Montecitorio, where the artist Piranesi engraved it soon after. The surviving section of granite column shaft was kept behind the Montecitorio Palace where it was sadly damaged by fire in 1759.

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2020-05-26

Botanical illustration and the park: Exotic botany illustrated, in thirty-five figures of curious and elegant plants: explaining the sexual system; and tending to give some new lights into the vegetable philosophy.... by John Hill, 1759, BHL/NYBG.....https://t.co/Zv0dbCBxiD

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2020-05-22