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강희정(지은이), 『아편과 깡통의 궁전 - 동남아의 근대와 페낭 화교사회』, 푸른역사, 2019
1786년~1930년대 말까지 페낭섬이라는 독특한 시공간에서 생겨난 화인사회에 관해 '아편-주석-고무'라는 키워드로 동남아의 근대와 화인사회의 역사적 편린을 더듬어 본 것이다.
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This beautiful work was done by either Gorachaud or Vishnu Persaud- both among the best!
Bombax insigne/Showy Cotton Silk Tree
"Plantae Asiaticae rariores/Descriptions & figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants"
By Wallich, N. 1786-1854
@ks1729 @dpanikkar
"Recueil des plantes dessinées et gravées par ordre du roi Louis XIV", with over 300 beautiful engraved plates, was never formally published or offered for public sale. Explore the royal gift issue, produced in 1786, in #BHLib via @NYBG ➡️ https://t.co/EcWqewmy4t #FloraFriday
@MuseiRealiTo @GaEstensi @LaVenariaReale @museomadre @PinacotecaBO @GalleriaNazUmbr @UffiziGalleries @rivolicast @BarberiniCorsin @museitaliani @LAGNroma @leCMN @palazzorealege @HRP_palaces @Quirinale @paleishetloo @hermitage_eng Certo che la conosciamo!😊
E per l'#InternationalDogDay vi presentiamo i nostri cani tessuti 'griffati' Gobelins, ritratti in un particolare degli arazzi con storie di Enrico IV, 1786!🐕
#DogDay #giornatainternazionaledelcane
#palazzorealenapoli #museitaliani
Some #SussexLore for #FolkloreThursday.
Known as Pharisees & famous for their love of dancing; the last Fairies in England lived in the Sussex Downs - from The Spectator 1908: 'Pharisees & Fairy Rings'.
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A pair of paintings by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg in the Windermere Jetty Museum: “Belle Isle, Windermere, in a Calm” (1786) and same “in a Storm” (1785). De Loutherbourg had visited the Lakes in 1783, but these wild exaggerations were designed to delight a London audience
More Shakespearean drama at #Brighton on 7th August 1786 as the Prince of Wales receives the FAKE NEWS that his old man has been assassinated, and then rushes off to Windsor to claim his prize. King George III was not amused...
#IndependenceDay 'Independence of the United States,' French engraving published in 1786. Note the portrait of Louis XVI along with Franklin and Washington’s portraits.
Happy Midsummer from @OGOMProject! Dr Johnson, in his Preface to Shakespeare (1765), talks of ‘the loves of Theseus and Hippolyta combined with the Gothic mythology of fairies’, so here's some #GothicFairies: Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing by William Blake, c. 1786
"Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing circa" (Edited)
William Blake (1786)
Jean Joseph Tallison.1786-1832. An Injured Warrior beside a River.
A minutes silence of you please to remember the 'Putney Disaster' of October 20th 1786, when a dopey local clergyman crashed his cart into the Thames, taking his wife with him for an unexpected second baptism
➡️Victoire de Kent, Hayter, 1835
➡️Victoire et Victoria, future reine
➡️par Winterhalter
Victoire de Saxe-Cobourg-Saalfeld (1786-1861)
1er mariage 1803 avec É. de Leiningen. 2 enfants : Charles et Théodora.
1818 épouse duc de Kent, fils de Georges III. Devient Duchesse de Kent.
''Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing'' by William Blake (circa 1786), at @Tate
Rough-legged Buzzard (Z1786) #bird #birding #Artmagenta22mar19 #drawing #artwork #vogel #birders #animallife #sketchart #birds