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Chess Grand Master Isidor Arthur Gunsberg was born 1 November 1854. Died at his home at 4 Woodfield Ave and buried at Streatham Park Cemetery. A cue for our next talk (free) and book launch at St Leonard's Church 7:30pm 2 Nov.

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2021-11-01

One of my favorite paintings:

“The Scapegoat” 🐐

Painted between 1854 and 1856 by William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910)🇬🇧

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2021-10-27

1854, the Charge of Scarlett's 300 or Heavy Brigade at Balaclava. Such a dreadful event for men and horses, but a brilliantly dynamic evocation of it (after Stanley Berkeley, c.1890). Thanks . https://t.co/uoWdPlLfr0

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2021-10-25

I'm sure everyone knows who this is... Commodore Matthew Perry. The American man credited with opening up Japan to the west and stoppped having it be closed! On his 2nd visit to Japan in 1854 he visited Hakodate - one of two ports opened to Americans in the Treaty of Kanagawa.

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2021-10-23

«Chamouni, Rocks and Vegetation» (1854) by John Ruskin
🏛️ Lakeland Arts - Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum

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2021-10-21

Oscar Wilde was 1854. In 1891 he wrote "Salomé" a play that proved so popular it inspired numerous silent adaptations incl. Nazimova's 1922 film. Later versions featured Eartha Kitt as Salomé in 1955 & Al Pacino as Herod (2018) + Ken Russell's 1985 SALOMÉ'S LAST DANCE.

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2021-10-17

The Myth of Martyrdom. He cast himself in a dazzling array of roles, both on and off the page. Can history restore the full measure of Wilde’s complexity?
1854. [https://t.co/key6P2ksI0] via

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2021-10-17

On this day in 1854, the author and world-champion decadent Oscar Wilde entered the world. For this author portrait in the Illuminated Edition of THE FAIRYTALES OF OSCAR WILDE, dressed him in a fictional but fitting peacock-print suit. Happy Birthday, dear Oscar.

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2021-10-16

The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865). Wiertz Museum. Belgian romantic painter and sculptor. Here is a new Scrabble word for you - "taphophobia".

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2021-10-16

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

—Oscar Wilde, born 1854

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2021-10-16

今日はアイルランド出身の作家オスカー・ワイルドの誕生日（1854年）。19世紀末の唯美主義文学を代表する存在ですが、長篇小説は『ドリアン・グレイの肖像』を遺しただけでした。戯曲『サロメ』、童話『幸福な王子』、笑話『嘘から出た誠』も人気のある作品です。☞ https://t.co/dpufucmWOb

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2021-10-16

Wotan, Götterdämmerung (1906) by Hermann Hendrich (1854-1931).

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2021-10-16

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (1803-1862), Winter Landscape with Wood Gatherers and Skaters, 1854
oil on canvas
private collection

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2021-10-12

View in the Neighbourhood of Oranienbaum, 1854

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2021-10-10

AGP - 1854
Sorry for the delays.

Vesta, you will never be the better mom!!

https://t.co/yWsIRr8w7Y

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2021-10-05

This illustration of Victoria amazonica by William Sharp is among the first and finest examples of American chromolithography published in the 1854 book Victoria Regia or The Great Water Lily of America.

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2021-10-01