Daily - Day 11-28-18
Here's an illustrated tribute to (Nov 28, 1757 – Aug 12, 1827) for his 261th birthday, w/ a sketch based on his famous The Great & the Woman Clothed with the Sun Paintings.

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William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (1786)

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English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake was born on this date in 1757. This is "Nebuchadnezzar."

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William Blake born in 1757
was a 19th century writer & artist who is regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age. His writings have influenced countless writers & artists through the ages, and he has been deemed both a major poet and original thinker.
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11月28日は英国の幻想的な画家、神秘主義詩人ウィリアム・ブレイク(1757-1827)の誕生日。仏の思想家ジョルジュ・バタイユが傾倒し、愛人だった作家コレット・ペニョ(ロール)の棺にブレイクの詩集『天国と地獄の結婚』が入れられたという。幻視者の眼差しと神話世界は未来を見越した豊饒の叡智の源泉。

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Happy Birthday to William Blake in 1757! 'The Ancient of Days', from our collection, was first painted by Blake in 1794. He repeatedly returned to it, redrawing & repainting it for the rest of his life. This one was coloured by Blake just before his death in 1827.

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William Blake was born 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” by Scottish poet Robert Blair—one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.

The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
Death’s Door
By an Open Grave

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de 1757 nació en el poeta, pintor y grabador romántico William Blake, considerado el mayor artista de la historia de Su pintura se basa en visiones fantásticas simbolistas

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Giuseppe Castiglione
Kazaks offering horses in tribute to the Emperor Qianlong
China/Southern Italy (1757)
Ink and colors on paper; hanging scroll. 45.5 x 269 cm
Réunion des Musées Nationaux

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Cut short by death. In 1826, William Blake (1757–1827) was commissioned to make a series of etchings for Dante's Divine Comedy. Poverty stricken he "is said to have spent one of the very last shillings he possessed on a pencil to continue sketching." Only 7 images were completed.

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Additions this month: Laurie & Whittle's 1810 map showing developments in engraved 1757 map of by Covens & Mortier 🌏Fascinating map of the arena of the Great Game by Stanford,1912🌍Unusual map, c1942 🌎https://t.co/5wb36FW8R7

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1757年9月8日。
ハンス・カール・フォン・ヴィンターフェルト死去。
プール・ル・メリットと黒鷲勲章受勲。フリードリヒ大王の腹心として参謀総長的な役割を演じる。
彼の死を知った大王は「私は我が敵の大軍に対して様々な対策を見つけるだろうが、彼のような者を再び得ることは少なかろう」と言う。

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강세황 <영통동구도> 송도기행첩 1757

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Mir Miran, here with his father Mir Jafar, Nawab of Bengal (r. 1757-60 & 1763-65), was struck dead by lightning as he lay in his tent, 3 July 1760
https://t.co/KZ7YGSMpRp
This took place almost exactly 3 years after Mir Miran had ordered the killing of Siraj-ud-Daula

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Born 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL

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1757 クレアHD
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Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1714-1789, French painter, The Night, 1757

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1000 Thx, Dear Tweeps

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Music on the Dunes

Hermann Seeger (1857-1920)

Private collection

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Mandolin Sonata D minor Allegro

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

https://t.co/KJGz90qMrA

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