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Samuel Nicholson was the captain commissioned in 1794 to oversee the building of the frigate @USSConstitution in Boston. Because the ship was of a novel design, Nicholson encountered a number of difficulties on the first cruise in July 1798. Learn more at https://t.co/GWh21xagjq
The Missing Link - newly discovered. An early specimen of the genus 'English Buck' in his natural habitat, upon a horse, in a #London park on 7th April 1798. Displaying characteristics of the 'man of feeling' & donning a primitive hat, he also has distinctly modern dandy traits.
Harpies:
1. All Will Fall (Todos caerán), Francisco de Goya, 1797-1798.
2. The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides, William Blake, 1824-7.
3. Harpies in the infernal wood, from Inferno XIII, Gustave Doré, 1861.
4. Harpy, Edvard Munch, 1899.
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#Napoleon, hearing news of Admiral #Nelson'as victory at the Battle of the Nile, threatens 'to extirpate the English from the earth' in December 1798. Good luck with that one Boney
Artist Eugène Delacroix was born #otd in 1798.
This lithograph from our collection captures the beauty and power of the wild horse.
Delacroix was inspired by the many horses painted by George Stubbs - who inspires you to get creative? 🐴
#BarberInstitute #hellobrum
Christ on the Sea of Galilee by Delacroix, who was born #onthisday in 1798.
UK & Hyderabad :: Hyderabad was the first princely state to accept subsidiary alliance in 1798. Nizam develop Hyderabad with the help of British govt and you can also see in following picture
In 1858, Queen Victoria give "Star of India" title to Nizam
@HiHyderabad @Andrew007Uk
Single-ship actions were some of the age of sail’s most savage fights, few more so than one fought off the Gironde estuary in December 1798. Find out what happened in my blog this week
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#FrenchNavy #RoyalNavy
French Romanitic painter Eugène Delacroix was born on this date in 1798. This is "The Death of Sardanapalus." #art @MuseeLouvre
Frew's 40th Wedding Anniversary Special #1798. #thephantom #comicbook
Julia here, the Lords Library holds one of the best preserved collections of prints of Gillray’s satirical cartoons anywhere in the world, donated in 1899 by Sir James Fraser. This is Gillray 2. “Consequences of a French invasion”. By James Gillray 1 March 1798. #UKPW17
*Lunchtime* A fishmonger and her cat. Murshidabad, c. 1798. British Library, Add Or 1231. #MewseumMonday
Romantic painter #EugèneDelacroix was born on this day, April 26, 1798. Can you recognize these works?
Italian adventurer, writer and famous lover Giacomo Casanova, died on this day in 1798.