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Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Illustration by George Cruickshank (GB, 1792-1878). From an edition published in 1838. #Dickensian #Bookillustration
🐼 Compléments de Buffon. t.1.
Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1838.
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'The Vampire' (1841) is a gothic novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published under the pseudonym of Krasnorogsky. The inspiration for the story was Tolstoy's stay in Italy in 1838. Tolstoy's writing on vampires was partly influenced by 'The Vampyre' by Polidori.
John Wilkes Booth, shown here with the devil tempting him, was born #OnThisDay in 1838. He was just 26 when he assassinated #AbrahamLincoln.
Natural history in the park: Magasin de zoologie......Paris, Lequien fils,1831-1838..........8 vols, BHL/Ernst Mayr Library........https://t.co/uBUjWWPSp9
THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into #swans and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake #WinterFolklore 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert; Ian Daniels
Happy Independence Day Haiti!! Hope you will win the fight for restitution of the millions of gold francs you had to pay France before they would recognize your independence. Thanks for giving citizenship to enslaved people from Jamaica who reached your shores before 1838.
We love learning what inspires our artists. In this case, both Nicole Duennebier & Wilhelm Neusser studied work from the Rococo period & painters like Jean-Honoré Fragonard to create The Flood & Untitled Fragonard/1838. Come see both paintings in Plenty-we're open today til 4..
"Le Phalanger volant nain", from René Primevère Lesson's "Compléments de Buffon",1838. #FeathertailGlider https://t.co/9UKRgVt11G via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
Ringtail Possum, 1838. From "Compléments de Buffon" by R. P. Lesson. https://t.co/JqWzoJloze via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
Le Kangourou Elegans. From "Compléments de Buffon" by R. P. Lesson, 1838. #SwampWallaby https://t.co/L0Ft4msRUo via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
Le Kangourou Rouge. From "Compléments de Buffon" by R. P. Lesson, 1838. #SwampWallaby https://t.co/Qc7L2Tgs5C via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
L'Echidni Austral. 1838. From "Compléments de Buffon" by R. P. Lesson. #Echidna https://t.co/R9qPZlBOVN via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
@JayneShrimpton Some Seaside Fashions for 1863. Cartoon by John Leech for Punch's Pocket Book.
William Henry Perkin, chemist responsible for the first mass-produced synthetic dyes born #OnThisDay 1838.
The Winter Aconite, Eranthis hyemalis is a member of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Native to calcareous woodlands of Southern Europe, it was introduced to Britain as a garden plant in 1596. Now widely naturalised it was first recorded in the wild in 1838.
Landschaft bei Maxen (Landscape near Maxen).
Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, 1838.