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“Reading brings us unknown friends”
- Honoré de Balzac, who was born in 1799
(illustration by Kate Greenaway)

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2020-05-20

Happy Birthday Balzac! Born today in 1799, you illustrated the lives of your characters in post-Napoleonic France in glorious detail and many regard you as the father of literary realism. One of my favourites is Le Père Goriot

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2020-05-20

Ya es hora.
Caprichos.
Francisco de Goya.
1799.

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2020-05-19

16 mai 1799 Emmanuel Joseph (1748-1836) est désigné comme Directeur par le Conseil de Anciens à partir d’une liste présentée par le Conseil des Cinq-Cents. Il remplace (ou éliminé par tirage au sort comme le prévoit la de l’an III.

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2020-05-16

From 1799, an Officer of the Marines. Serving sass.

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2020-05-06

Today On 4th May 1799 Tipu Sultan was killed at Srirangapatnam, thus bringing to an end of the 4th Mysore war. The EIC soldiers looted all the jewellery of Tipu.

This final assault happened under the command of Lt. Gen. George Harris.

(Last Moment of Tipu by Henry Singleton)

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2020-05-04

【4コマのバハムート】
第1799話「マイムの苦悩編」
今すぐチェック！
⇒ https://t.co/TmVmZl5ygv

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2020-05-03

Botanical illustration and the park: Thirty-eight plates, with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany.....by T Marten and JJ Rousseau, 1799, BHL/Uni Toronto...https://t.co/Wgy1UnsiY8

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2020-05-02

【お絵描き練習1799日目】オンライン授業中だけど、誰も気づかない。まあ上半身しか映らないからね。

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2020-05-01

Francis Wheatley (1747-1801) is rather underappreciated these days partly because his works rarely appear on the market. This watercolour‘Itinerant Potters’ is signed and dated 1799

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2020-04-28

inspiration - Harriet Wickham (1766-1847) was an amateur botanist who enjoyed botanising from her garden at Cottingley, & from walks in the local area. Here, she documents finding Bog Pimpernel & the carnivorous common sundew on the marshy moorlands in 1799.

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2020-04-27

RHS Libraries hold a number of stunning illustrations by significant botanical artists, including Lilian Snelling (1879-1972), Caroline Maria Applebee (c.1799-1854) and Augusta Innes Withers (c.1791-1876).

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2020-04-24

Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!
The Infant Shakspeare attended by Nature and the Passions
Plate from: Boydell's Shakspeare gallery, 1799. https://t.co/CVhvmJWIrg
Original painting is in the Folger Shakespeare Library collection.

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2020-04-23

Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857): English botanical illustrator. She acquired the post of governess in the family of John Lindley (1799-1865); English scientist. She became his principal botanical illustrator, as he recognised and appreciated her intelligence and artistic skills.

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2020-04-17

Семён Щедрин. «Каменный мост в Гатчине у площади Коннетабля». 1799 г. Холст, масло. 256×204 см.Третьяковская галерея.

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2020-04-16

Lawrence’s reputation as England’s greatest living portraitist was established by the time of the Regency & the Prince would become his patron. Sir Herbert Taylor (c1797), Satan as a Fallen Angel (c1797), Charles Bell (1798) & Amelia Lock (1799)

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2020-04-14

🌍 Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique /.
A Paris: Chez J.J. Fuchs, libraire . ., 7, 1799-1808.
https://t.co/K33nMc5lmQ

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2020-04-10

For today’s story of the region we look at a brand whose story began in 1799 and which became famous the world over https://t.co/GKvIqrXBw3

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2020-04-10