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Born in 1820: English writer (1820-49)

Portrait with her sisters (1818-48) & (1816-55) by their brother (1817-48), ca. 1833

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2022-01-17

Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich
(1817 - 1900)

↪ good night all

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2022-01-16

But mostly he watched with eager search

The belfry tower of the Old North Church,

As it rose above the graves on the hill,

Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.

~Henry Wadsworth.
Art illustration: Sir John Gilbert(1817-1897)


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Sunsets by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900)

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Forest landscape in the moonlight (1861)
by Georg Eduard Otto Saal (1817-1870)

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2022-01-13

1817 Allegra, daughter of Lord Byron and Claire Clairmont, was born. The next day Mary Shelley tells Byron that ‘Claire was safely delivered of a little girl..She sends her affectionate love to you’. Allegra will die aged 5 at a convent, after being sent there by her father.

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2022-01-12

Vesuvius in Eruption, J.M.W. Turner, between 1817 and 1820.

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Henry Joseph Redouté, Les Roses: Rosa Hudsoniana Salicifolia, 1817-1824 https://t.co/NU93SzkvNs

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2022-01-08

Parade de la flotte russe de la mer Noire sous les yeux du tsar Nicolas Ier en 1849, par Ivan Aïvazovski (1817-1900).

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2022-01-07

1415、1817、2728、集合。

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2022-01-02

John Constable, The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (‘Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817’), 1832 https://t.co/9rJBpCKkFi

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2021-12-31

Passage of the Jews through the Red Sea (1891) by Ivan Aivazovsky (Russian, 1817–1900). The artist created about 6,000 paintings over nearly 60 years.

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2021-12-25

20-gun Russian brig “Mercury” fighting off two larger Turkish ships during the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-29, by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900). The Mercury fought a number of engagements in the Black Sea, including one famous escape from a Turkish squadron of 14 ships.

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2021-12-25

Saturday we shared a few more etchings and engravings from the Italian scientific journal 'Opuscoli scientifici' published by the Università di Bologna in the early 19th century. We hold Volumes 1-4, published 1817-1823. Learn more here: https://t.co/adrGj4AVNQ

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.

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2021-12-20

A. Appiani (Milano, 1754 - 1817)


Meno ricordato ma non meno valido dei più celebrati artisti del periodo, A. Appiani si distingue per il suo elegante stile, che ammorbidisce e scalda, con la sua sensibilità, i rigidi, e spesso superficiali, canoni neoclassici.

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2021-12-20

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817)
'Persuasion' - written 1816 and published 1818.
' Sits at her elbow, reading verses', by Hugh Thomson 1897

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2021-12-16

Henry Joseph Redouté, Les Roses: Rosa Lucida, 1817-1824 https://t.co/TVbpICeNhp

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