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New release!
We are pleased to announce Bullocks, Grain and Good Madeira: The Maratha and Jat Campaigns 1803-1806 and the emergence of an Indian Army is now available.
✨ Save £3.75 off RRP until Sunday 25th July – no code needed ✨
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'A Gallant Rescue' by Ebenezer Colls, HMS Endymion rescues a French two-decker, Spanish Coast, 1803 [7200 x 5086] [Art] from /u/MuteQuaker at #WarshipPorn ➡ https://t.co/bHKIzLTsHN
Hibiscus hybrid from Hibiscus cameronii and Hibiscus fulgens, 1844, by #SarahAnnDrake (#SarahAnneDrake, English, 1803-1857), who died #otd (July 9). @biodivlibrary, https://t.co/CTPWLTP0jW, via Raven Lib at @mobotgarden #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory #botanicalart
George Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) developed a close affinity with the Romani people, who figure prominently in his work. His best-known books are The Bible in Spain, and the novels Lavengro and The Romany Rye.
https://t.co/jk0GeY2nuI
Pretty proteas from issues of Curtis' botanical magazine, published in 1803 and 1805
#RareBooks #flowers #SciArt
The deadly Fool’s Parsley ☠️ (Aethusa) contains poisonous alkaloids and is responsible for much of the death-related folklore surrounding its look-alike the common Cow Parsley.
Plate by Grandville (1803-1847) 💛
#FaustianFriday #DarkGreenWeek
Born #OnThisDay in 1803: Scottish painter #RobertScottLauder (1803-69)
Portrait of John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) & Charlotte Sophia Scott (1799-1837), after 1838
#Lauder #ScottishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1803: Scottish painter #RobertScottLauder (1803-69)
Portrait of Thomas Duncan (1807-45), ca. 1839
#Lauder #ScottishArt
¡Buenos días!
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (Paris, 1803 - Fontainebleau, 1860).
‘Job y su compañía’ (h. 1852, óleo sobre lienzo, 119.38 x 85.73 cm).
Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Todays’ Find: Linda Caldwell’s 2020 biography of John Gorrie (3 Oct 1803 – 29 June 1855), “He Made Ice & Changed the World”, a U.S. physician who developed mechanical cooling in an effort to help his malaria & yellow fever patients https://t.co/tHd0CJV6Ft #histmed
🦎 Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, des reptiles: .
A Paris: De l'Imprimerie de F. Dufart, an X-XI [1802-1803].
https://t.co/8eiJROxrlS
Offerta di Ringraziamento di Noè (c.1803) di Joseph Anton Koch. Noè costruisce un altare al Signore dopo essere stato trasportato dal Diluvio; Dio manda l'arcobaleno come un segno del suo patto. (Genesi 8-9).
#ArcobalenoDiParole a #CasaLettori
@nadbitti @Natalia21273766
💐 Jardin de la Malmaison
A Paris: De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, et se trouve chez l'auteur . ., 1803-1804.
https://t.co/P8AnSFX7O7
Born #OnThisDay 25May1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist/philosopher poet who led the #transcendentalist movement and wrote well-known essays "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "The Poet," and "Nature." #USHistory
🐚 The natural history of British shells
London: Printed for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington . ., 1799-1803.
https://t.co/yeDpl8zfpz
Botanical illustration and the park: Curtis's Botanical Magazine, v.42, no 1726, 1815.......several vols, 1803-1906....BHL/Missouri Botanical Garden....... https://t.co/LqEDKTIQ1T #botanicalillustration
🐚 The natural history of British shells
London: Printed for the Author, and for F. and C. Rivington . ., 1799-1803.
https://t.co/tIcAw3E1sa
#OnThisDay 18th May 1803, Britain declared war on France, bringing the peace negotiated at Amiens to an end.
Gillray's stunning print 'The Plumb Pudding in danger' (1805) satirises how both sides were consumed with terrirtorial ambitions during this period.
Subir y Bajar (Up and Down), 1803 https://t.co/vaYVwxe3fw #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #museumarchive