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"Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion." ✒ English writer #ThomasDeQuincey, author of "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", the great classic of addiction #literature, passed away #onthisday 8 December 1859.
🦴 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
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Self-portrait, oil on canvas, from 1859.😁
#procreate #retromaxpack #illustration
"It was a darkness shaping itself forth..." - The Haunted and the Haunters by Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1859. 👤🕯👻
Danish painter Anna Ancher was b. #OTD in 1859. She studied in Paris, influenced by Impressionist cropping, scenes of women's daily life, & plein air painting. She & her husband joined the Skagen Painters in creating light-filled works.
Upcoming show:
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🔭 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
https://t.co/0HMLJ7VxqV
🐟 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
https://t.co/0tWIdogKRm
#BotanicMonday Centaurea amblensis was described by Graells in 1859. It differs well from other centaureas for its numerous flowers pink, which in the other species are scarce and yellow. The drawing of the species was made by #Graells, a former director of #MNCN. #Botany #SciArt
Zacharie Astruc, artist, sculptor and writer - etchin by his friend Whistler1859.
Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. (Algae, Foraminfera, Marine meteorology, Oceanography) https://t.co/LdoEeRrA89 @BioDivLibrary
« Je passai dans la matinée chez mon ami Sherlock Holmes (...). Il était en costume de chambre, paresseusement étendu sur un sofa. »
#CeJourLà Naissance de l'écrivain Arthur Conan Doyle, le 22 mai 1859. Lisons les Premières aventures du célèbre détective https://t.co/TrfKc2HuLq
Guide of Surgical Bandages, Gadgets and Dressings. 1859. https://t.co/tk74ogQ6f0
🦎 Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud: .
Paris: Chez P. Bertrand, 1850-1859.
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Happy Spring! 📷Colored engraving, title page of "A Wreath from the Woods of Carolina," Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1859. Rare Books Collection. Government & Heritage Library. Mary Ann Bryan Mason, 1st woman in NC to have written & illustrated a children's book. #womenshistorymonth
#OTD in #Archives
Yiddish author Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Rabinovich) was born #OnThisDay in 1859.
Members of the B'nai Zion society, Berdichev, via @yivoinstitute's Territorial Photographic Collection, RG 120.
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#JewishHistory
Birthday in the park: Wilhelm Grimm, 1786-1859.......https://t.co/YfVo8krHu6
Happy Birthday to Paul César #Helleu
Born this day in 1859. Best known for his portraits of beautiful society women of the #BelleÉpoque.
#MortuaryChapel (also known as the #Chapel of #StMichel and the #HolySouls),#UshawCollege, #Durham.Designed by #EDWARDWELBYPUGIN, 1859.
#awnpugin #pugin #augustuspugin #gothicrevivalarchitecture #interiordecorating #art #interiorarchitecture #edwardpugin #gothicrevival #interior