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Following The Drum
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“We must forward the letter to Brussels,” Hanslope said. “Depend upon it, she will not return this side of midsummer.” #Waterloo
Prussian Genetal Blucher enthralled #Wellington and the European sovereigns with some super dance moves during a #Waterloo victory fete at #Wanstead House in July 1814
2/2 The Opening of Waterloo Bridge, as seen from Whitehall Stairs, 18 June 1817. Painted by John Constable, & exhibited in 1832.
After several months of dancing, affairs, challenges to duels, and the occasional meeting around the table, the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna was signed #onthisday in 1815, a few days before the Battle of Waterloo. (Image: British Museum https://t.co/HvFmlwGdAU)
@Napoleonic_Imp @LandOfHistory @ZwhiteHistory @mcribbHistory @latelordchatham @WhigDuke @aquestingvole @KaraDiDomizio @mynameispurpose @meherbelin Thank you for the tag.
These are some of my favourite paintings:
The Charging Chasseur - Theodore Gericault
Battle of Waterloo - Sir William Hallam
Emile Jean Horace Vernet - The Battle of Pont d'Arcole
Wellington at Waterloo - Robert Alexander Hillingford
Somebody's Monday just got a whole lot better! A #Pick4 ticket purchased at Hometown Foods, 1010 E. Mitchell Ave. in #Waterloo, just won a $30,000 prize in today's midday drawing. #CheckYourTickets
Artist Angus McBride was very fond of both the Battersea Shield and the Waterloo Helmet @britishmuseum - here king #Cassivellaunus wears them as PPE going into battle on his chariot against the legions of #Caesar in 54 BC
#FindsFriday
Writing about #Celtic art it strikes me just how often the Waterloo Helmet and Battersea Shield @britishmuseum appear in pop culture pics of the #IronAge as if they were somehow in everyday use and everyone had their own copy...
...a random thread for #FindsFriday
Lock down portraits so far
Kyle Waterloo rd
Ryan Corrie
Mitchell’s and sienna Hollyoaks
#art #portraits #cartoon #drawing #drawings #artinquarantine
In 1818 he visited the Continent & painted much of what would become the Waterloo Series now hanging in Windsor Castle. Madame Isaac Cuthbert (1816-7), First Earl of Blessington (c1816) & Robert Stewart (1817). The Blessingtons grew the first pineapple in Ireland!
➡️ Les Pré-Raphaelites, par
Henry O'Neil, 1857.
➡️ Avant Waterloo, 1868.
Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817-1880), peintre et écrivain anglais.
A beautiful image of post-Waterloo #Paris from March 22nd 1817 featuring an elegant young man being greeted by two masked female revellers at the bottom of two slides of a helter-skelter
#OnThisDay 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte marched into #Paris setting in motion the 'Hundred Days' that would conclude with his defeat at Waterloo & final abdication.
The allied powers were forced once again to search for a #cure
#twitterstorians #Wellington
The few days have been hard. We have had repeated incidents of our company members having racist insults hurled at them as they travel to work through the Waterloo area. Coming back to this honest thoughtful review from the great @lyngardner and feeling heartened.
This limited edition signed and numbered print will be on show and for sale at TONIGHT’S opening of the Bein’ Narly Sci-Fi Group Show. Showing till Sunday at @aMBUSHGallery Gallery in Waterloo, Sydney. It’ll be cosmic, baby!