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This week's #objectoftheweek is a painting of the ruins at Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, painted by JMW Turner after his visit in 1797. Mrs Soane bought the watercolour directly from Turner’s Gallery in 1804, and today it hangs in her Morning Room in the Private Apartments.
The Moon Reflected in the Sarashina Paddy-fields, Mount Kyodai, Shinano Province, from Famous Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
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#ukiyoe #printing
Botanical illustration and the park: The botanist's repository, for new and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication...10v., 1797-1815, BHL/Smithsonian...https://t.co/o2qiQcYLn3 #botanicalillustration
El Gran Cabrón, 1796-1797. Francisco Goja.
Museo Lázaro Galdiano. Madrid.
#OnThisDay 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, sailors on 16 Royal Navy ships anchored at Spithead staged a mutiny in pursuit of better pay and conditions. The mutineers eventually negotiated an agreement that saw a Royal pardon for all crews and a pay rise for sailors.
Sojurner Truth (1797 - 1883) American abolitionist and women's rights activist. #NFT #cryptoart Not minted anything yet but still learning. Have things I could post on opensea but haven't done it yet.
【グランブルーファンタジー】【4コマ更新】『ぐらぶるっ!』第1797話「万雷!ゼウス編」を公開いたしました!4コマ見るにはこちら(スマホでアクセス!)⇒ https://t.co/PlpR2CmJR7 #グラブル
Journal des dames et des modes, was a French fashion magazine, published between 1797 and 1839. Until the 1820s, the magazine had almost international monopoly as a channel of French fashion worldwide.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Los Chinchillas, 1797-1798 https://t.co/78TNxqUtXQ #franciscojosédegoyaylucientes #printsanddrawings
Have you made an Easter Bonnet so far this weekend? Perhaps you’ve taken part in an Easter Egg hunt? The Figure in this beautiful drawing by Joseph Stannard (1797-1830), certainly looks as though they might have done both!
However, even before launching new operations, the objectives for the upcoming 1797 campaigns were to be decided. But unfortunately, during these precious early months, the Directory would show his structural deficiencies in terms of strategic planning.
Francisco Goya was born in Fuendetodos, Spain #OnThisDay in 1746.
Nobody paints witches like Goya...
#Art: "Witches' Sabbath" (1798), Museo Lázaro Galdiano and "Witches' Flight" (1797-98), Museo del Prado.
#tuesdaythoughts
This lovely Japanese Woodcut is called "Aji Fish and Kuruma-ebi" by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). He is famous for his series called 'One Hundred views of Edo' which were copied by Van Gogh!
This example is from a series called "Uozukushi" which means 'Every Variety of Fish'. 🐟
A tryptic! Blanche Queenie Gladys Phoebe. Kitagawa Utamaro, “Phoenix and beauties” Ca. 1797
#AnimalCrossingNewHorizons
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Phrosine and Melidore, 1797 https://t.co/89TGaaHjIc #pierrepaulprudhon