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112 years ago today, there was a farewell ball for the #TerraNovaExpedition in Dunedin, New Zealand. I had good fun imagining what that would have been like ...
#illustration #history #OnThisDayInHistory #Dunedin #NewZealand #ScottExpedition #FarewellTo… https://t.co/3WdNTsEybl
Born #onthisday1757 William Blake English #poet #painter & #printmaker Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake now considered a seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of the Romantic Age Major works inc. Newton (1795-1805) Satan (1789) Blake’s Cottage (c1804-10)
Born #onthisday1886 Tsuguharu Foujita Japanese–French #painter #printmaker & #etcher applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings Foujita was "most important Japanese artist working in the West during the 20th century" Foujita’s Book of Cats 1 of Top 500 rare books
26 Nov 1922: American #cartoonist Charles M. #Schulz, creator of #Peanuts, is born in #Minneapolis, Minnesota. He died in 2000. #comics #Snoopy #CharlieBrown #history #OnThisDate #ad https://t.co/rCtOKbgGIm https://t.co/PRuD3HZBEz
Born #onthisday1875 Isabel May Tweddle Australian #painter interested in #Post-Impressionist art Member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors exhibited at Victorian Artists Society exhibited works from trip to Solomon Islands New Guinea & Japan in London
Happy 6th Anniversary of The Loud House Christmas Special episode "11 Louds a Leapin'" 🏡🧡🎄🎉 it aired on @Nickelodeon in November 25, 2016 🎅❤️🏠💚🎊 I Love how the Loud Family is celebrating Christmas. 🎅🧡🎄 #TheLoudHouse #OnThisDay #Happy6thAnniversary
Catherine of Braganza was born on #OnThisDay 1638 (ns) in Alentejo, Portugal, daughter of the duke of Braganza, later King John IV (the Fortunate).
In 1662 she married Charles II.
A much under-rated Queen Consort.
#twitterstorians #HistParl
This #Thanksgiving, be sure to send your holiday greetings by Radiogram!
(Poster encouraging U.S. servicemen in occupied #Japan to call home #OnThisDay in 1949. Further details via @hagleymuseum: https://t.co/vBBwBuvH99)
#histSTM #radio #RCA
#telecommunications #turkey
Portrait of René de Birague, #French cardinal & ambassador to Emperor Ferdinand I, passed away #onthisday 1583 in Paris. #History #OTD
Anonymous artist
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: English writer #MaryAnnEvans aka #GeorgeEliot (1819-80)
Portrait by #CarolineBray (1814-1905), 1842
#EnglishLiterature #Womenwriters #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1602: #ElisabethofFrance (1602-44), Queen of Spain as spouse of #PhilipIV, daughter of #HenriIV
Portrait by Diego #Velázquez (1599-1660), ca. 1631-2
#IsabeldeBorbon #Bourbon #Habsburg
Released today in 2005, the Grammy nominated 'Dirty Harry' by @gorillaz Ft @bootiebrownOG
#OnThisDay #Gorillaz #BootieBrown #DangerMouse #DamonAlbarn
William Tierney Clark's Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest opened #onthisday in 1849. You can see original drawings and correspondence online at https://t.co/uMUmIkxt82 thanks to ICE R&D fund project and Budapest History Museum (BTM). Or read about it here https://t.co/eudmR5B8OJ
Today marks 22 years since Banjo-Tooie by Morgan Andersson was released . It was published in 2000. #onthisdayreleased #morganandersson #banjotooie
#OnThisDay
52年前の1970年11月20日、エマーソン・レイク&パーマーのファースト・アルバム『Emerson, Lake & Palmer』がリリースされた。「Lucky Man」(US48位)がヒット、アルバム・チャートは全英4位/全米18位。
#EmersonLakeAndPalmer
Released today in 2007, @gorillaz - D-Sides. What is your favourite track?
#OnThisDay #Gorillaz #DamonAlbarn
Born #OnThisDay in 1584: Southern Netherlandish Baroque Painter #GaspardeCrayer (1584-1669)
Equestrian Portraitof #PhilipIV (1605-65), King of Spain, ca. 1628-32
#deCrayer #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1584: Southern Netherlandish Baroque Painter #GaspardeCrayer (1584-1669)
Portrait by Anthony #vanDyck (1599-1641), 1627-35
#deCrayer #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #onthisday1901 Sybil Craig Australian #painter Kept a studio on Collins Street Melbourne from 1936 to 1951 Appointed by Australian War memorial as an official war artist & was first woman to paint women working in the munitions’ factories