"He, who recognises in a piece of bread only the stomach cork, will feel sorry for not being able to paint the cow dung smell in his head of cattle as well."

Romantic history painter and Totentanz illustrator Alfred Rethel was born 1816 in Aachen.

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Après plusieurs années de recherches le a pu identifier 3 000 dessins de la collection offerte par Johann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816). Grâce , Ils présentent 95 feuilles, illustrant qualité et éclectisme, jusqu'au 16 août. https://t.co/J539h4NTKb

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Thomas Rowlandson's caricature, Death and the Antiquaries, 1816. A group of antiquaries cluster eagerly around the exhumed corpse of a king. The image was inspired by the opening of the tomb of Edward I in Westminster Abbey by the Society of Antiquaries in 1774.

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Moser, who died on this day in 1816, is one of my favourite eighteenth-century artists. Not simply because I love still lives & flower painting (but I really do), but because she exemplifies so many of the problems that characterise the construction of a canon of British art. https://t.co/Pxy6MPCHyz

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Born OTD - 02/05/1816 in London - Augustus Leopold Egg RA, artist friend of CD who painted him as Sir Charles Coldstream in the play 'Used Up' in 1848. The painting is in the collection of the

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Before the stethoscope, doctors had to press their ears directly against a patient's chest to hear their lungs! In 1816, French doctor René Laennec felt uncomfortable with the practice and invented the first stethoscope, a long wooden tube that amplified sound. Art by

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Let's take a fond look at the Queen we could have had:
Princess Charlotte begins to assert herself against her father the Prince Regent's control, demonstrating the virtue of combining German flesh with English spirit, April 28th 1816

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Rebecca at the Well
Washington Allston
Paintings
American, 1816

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➡️ Les jardins de l'empereur de Chine, palais impérial, Pékin, par William Alexander (1767-1816), 
peintre anglais.

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Kim Hong-do (1745-1816).
➡️Seodang, l’école.
➡️L’observation d’une image.

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1816 nasceva Alla fine dello scorso anno la pubblicava la Jane trasposizione dell'opera di C.Brontë. Ne parlavo a gennaio qui https://t.co/aOQPMHFB8A

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Born in 1816: English novelist and poet (1816-55)

Portrait with sisters Anne (1820-49) & Emily (1818-48) by brother Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), ca. 1834

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We hold some beautiful old maps & plans illustrating the natural in our archives. This one, of Sheffield Park, depicts the lake, deer park and wooded areas. From a book of maps by Edward Wakefield, 1816 (ACC 10528/1)

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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!

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He created a number of studies of the King & his assistants duplicated them for various clients & official reasons. His ability to give the infamous King dignity made him popular with the monarch. Sir Charles Stewart (1814), Duke of Wellington (1814), George IV (1814 & 1816)

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Les Liliacées: Limodorum purpureum, Henry Joseph Redouté, 1802-1816 https://t.co/Qqah8EPdwb

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