# otd books indiebookstoreday reading onthisday anthonytrollope augustehervieu trollope englishliterature napoleon_1815 レ・ミゼラブル ナポレオン botanicalillustration napoleon1815 vitesilenziose museumarchive johnconstable ukiyoe printing japanesepainting haikuchallenge haiku fashionart arts indigenousthoughts indigenous tairp kabuki history napoleon bartolozzi genre italy calabria reggio pastoral

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

—Anthony Trollope, English novelist born 1815

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2021-04-24

Born in 1815: English author (1815-82)

Possible portrait by (1794-1858), 1832

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2021-04-24

Signature works inc Rome From Mount Aventine (1835) The Burning of the Houses of Lords & Commons (1835) Dido Building Carthage (1815) The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818) Typhon coming on (1840) The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up (1839)

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2021-04-23


Two new cards for today to illustrate the same event. Which one ?
Deux cartes aujourd'hui pour illustrer le même événement. Mais lequel ?
https://t.co/vKjLOYAfax

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2021-04-23

4/22は バルジャンがパン1つの罪で「鎖につながれた」日(1796)。

がイタリアでオーストリア軍に勝利したことが伝えられた日だったそうです。

ナポレオンとバルジャンは同い年。バルジャン釈放の1815年はナポレオンがワーテルローで敗北した年です。

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2021-04-22

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

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2021-04-21



The drawings for today!

Les illustrations du jour !

https://t.co/vKjLOYAfax

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2021-04-21

Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) Where the word "Mesmerize" comes from. The German innovator of hypnotic therapy. He theorised the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objects he called "animal magnetism".

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2021-04-16

Una natura morta del pittore olandese Hendrik Reekers (1815-1854), protagonista di una di quelle ormai poco note ai più.

Vi invito a zoomare e a perdervi nell'estrema precisione del dipinto.

Guardate, ad esempio, la buccia delle pesche. Virtuosismo puro!

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2021-04-16

John Constable, Dedham from near Gun Hill, Langham, 1815 https://t.co/nvSbq18GGN

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2021-04-12

Los disparates (The Follies)/ Proverbios/ Sueños (Dreams) is a series of prints in etching and aquatint, created by Francisco Goya (1815-1823), while he lived in Quinta del Sordo, on the walls of which he painted the famous Black Paintings.

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Νο. 1: Feminine folly

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2021-04-11

Chinese boys playing a raffle game, from the series “Children Say ‘This is Japan!’ and Imitate the Games They See in Picturebooks. By Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)

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2021-04-01

' without time
and no more barbarians, nor their horses, nor cattle
in the southern orchard where all the leaves are gone '



(1,3139x2917+5746+1815,90)

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2021-03-28

John Singleton Copley
American, 1738–1815

Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene), 1764.

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2021-03-23

John Constable
Постройка баржи.1815
Музей Виктории и Альберта,Лондон

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2021-03-23

Как говорится, лучший подарок художника - ретвит его работ, так что буду рада активу
Также можете кинуть копейку на тортик
5469 4800 1545 1815

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2021-03-22

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"You say there is but one way to worship/serve the Great Spirit. If there is but one religion,why do you white people differ so much about it? Why not all agreed,as you can all read the book?"
Sganyodaiyo/Handsome Lake Seneca 1735-1815

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2021-03-21

Actors in a Shibaraku Performance, by Torii Kiyonaga (1752-1815)

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2021-03-21

"If you want to kill your Emperor, here I am!"

🇨🇵 in 1815, enters Paris, having escaped exile on Elba, and ascends the throne. Bourbon King Louis XVIII has fled. Soldiers sent to capture Napoleon and "bring him back in an iron cage" had joined him.

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2021-03-20

Also by Francesco Bartolozzi...

"Cottagers at the bottom of Mount Vesuvius"
"A Calabrian Family from the environs of Reggio"
Stipple engravings in original color
After the painting by Francesco (1728-1815)
London, 1799

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2021-03-18