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Born #OnThisDay in 1801: #MariaTheresaofAustria (1801-55), Queen of Sardinia as spouse of #CarloAlbertoI
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1840s
#HabsburgLorraine #SavoyCarignano
In the 1840s, when postal rates in Britain became standardized, commercially produced Valentine cards began to grow in popularity. The cards were flat paper sheets, often printed with colored illustrations and embossed borders.
In the 1840s, there were rare plants, such as a remarkable Dombeya Ameliae (Redouté), but also oleanders and a small rose garden in the #orangerie at the #Giardino Ducale, #Parma.
La Reale aranciera, 1857, G. Carmignani
The Royal Orangery
Around the world in 80 paintings:
On day 5 we're taking in the views of Bregenz in Austria captured by JMW Turner in the 1840s
Sir Michael Sadler bought this work and donated it to the Cooper Gallery in memory of his parents who had lived and worked in Barnsley. #CooperVoyage
#TalDiaComoHoy de 1809 nacía Edgar Allan Poe, uno de los personajes incluidos por los #prerrafaelitas en su Lista de Inmortales de los años 1840s. De otras inspiraciones literarias hablamos en @cafelluvia.Y #Rossetti ilustró varios de los poemas de Poe
#arteyliteratura #sigloXIX https://t.co/EamoLr5e3d
a wip before i go to sleep;; and bruhhh to think that i wanted to make a background for this when already i am tiredddd
and yeah 1840s won the poll and tbh it was a great idea
Charles Dickens' #Christmas Books series had five novellas published in the 1840s--all had social and moral messages. "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In" was published in 1844.
Read it in HaithiTrust:
https://t.co/x4kwPvqHbs
Born #onthisday1815 Thomas Couture French history #painter & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s
PAINTING OF THE DAY: DISMAL SWAMP, 1840 by George Washington Mark #GeorgeWashingtonMark #painting #artwork #AmericanArtist #1840s
Spoiled lil girl from 1840s✨ she was a child prodigy and her only friend was her rabbit doll🐰
#art #procreate #artid #artidn
”Tobiuo and Ishimochi Fish” 1840s
by Utagawa Hiroshige
from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish)
#Arracht is a striking Irish language debut from Tom Sullivan, capturing the desperation of the 1840s potato famine.
Watch Arracht on #LeedsFilmPlayer now and join for a special @bfinetwork Q+A with the team behind it on Tuesday 17 Nov, 2pm. ➡️ https://t.co/sOe4UjKEWI #LIFF2020
Next up in my trolling through history series- 1840s! This scribble is based off a fashion plate from 1847!
Branch is such a gentleman!
Invented in 1772 & described by poet Robert Southey as “a wonder-working gas of delight”, laughing gas (nitrous oxide) was used as popular entertainment at parties ~ as here depicted by Thomas Rowlandson ~ until its use as a surgical anaesthetic was recognised in 1840s
Some parts of my reply to ask
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1-How Nastya dresses for the theater now and how she dressed in the 1840s(Kyiv became a city of theatres from the 1840s)
2-She searches theatres(Kyiv has got 50 theatres now)
#art #artistsontwitter #artwork #digital #digitalartwork #artistsupport
Just thinking about how, in the late 1840s, this aeronaut spent hours of his free time, sometimes whole days, wading in New York Bay at dawn, collecting seaweed specimens with which he illustrated this book.