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Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Swiss painter #AntonGraff (1736-1813)
Self-portrait, 1813
#Graff #SwissArt
Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Swiss painter #AntonGraff (1736-1813)
Self-portrait, ca. 1808
#Graff #SwissArt
Schweizerische Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Minerva and a winged god, 1813–18 https://t.co/xg2JQ89Fvk #cooperhewittdesignmuseum #smithsonian
207 years old painting of a British lady purchasing cloth from a vendor at her home in India was published in London in 1813 AD.
#OTD in 1813: The final day of the Battle of Leipzig. Overwhelmed by enemy numbers, Napoleon concedes defeat. Newly minted Marshal Poniatowski, commanding the rearguard, is seriously wounded and drowns in an attempt to swim across the Elster.
Happy Birthday #giuseppeverdi 🎈born #otd in 1813 #verdi #composer #opera
This week's #WellingtonWednesday is #OnThisDay 7 October 1813, Wellington fought & won the Battle of Bidasoa (or the Battle of Larrun) wresting a foothold on French soil from Marshal Soult's army. This established a postion to invade France following the Battle of The Pyrenees.
Richard Wagner - Pencil
22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883
Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"
'1813_2175' . aka the venus of zehlendorf .
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Illustration from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (orig. pub. 1813). The artist is Arthur Wallis Mills (UK, 1878-1940). “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once ..” #BookIllustrationOfTheDay #Austenite
Saint Matthew and an Angel, 1813–18 https://t.co/5KT1Z2qpnN #smithsonian #openaccess
Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher died #otd in 1819. Nicknamed Marshall Vorwärts, he is best known for liberating Germany from Napoleonic rule in 1813, coming to Wellington's aid at Waterloo in 1815, and taking over Napoleonic Twitter in 2020. Oh, and the elephants. #MarshalBlucher
Four illustrations from Pride and Prejudice (originally published 1813 ) by Jane Austen. The artist is Charles E. Brock. From an edition published by Macmillan & Co. in 1895. #Janeite #Victorian #BookIllustration
The storming of San Sebastian took place #OnThisDay 31 August 1813. Thomas Graham's forces of British & Portuguese troops ran from trenches & into the breach. It led to the Peninsular War reaching the Pyrenees & France.
The city was sacked despite officer's attempts to stop it.
OTD in 1813, Henry Bergh, founder of the @ASPCA. The group’s and the #AnimalRights movement’s roots can be found, and in some surprising ways still seen, in #GreenwichVillage: https://t.co/Vampoy5hpd