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"In the spring of 1862, the Zoological Society of London received from the Acclimatisation Society of Melbourne two Wombats of this new species." "Zoological Sketches" Joseph Wolf, 1867. Digitised 4 @BioDivLibrary by @mayrlibrary #SouthernHairynosedWombat https://t.co/qBDvg2mjS2
Birds in the park: Die vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel, by HG Ludwig Reichenbachen, 1836-1862, several vols, from BHL/Smithsonian.........https://t.co/7XvWjPuIu5
Botanical illustration and the park: Deutschlands flora in abbildungen nach der natur, by Jakob Sturm, 1798-1862, 9 vols, from BHL/Harvard Botany Libraries......https://t.co/TUi9yxY3Um
#LeSaviezVous Au XIXe, le #tatouage s'est énormément développé en #Angleterre.
Même la famille royale s'y met : en 1862, le prince de Galles se fait tatouer une croix de Jérusalem sur le bras. Devenu roi, il fera tatouer des motifs sur les bras de ses fils au Japon.
Euclemensia woodiella, the extinct Manchester Tinea (1830)
From British Entomology, 1862, by John Curtis art
In 1862, a mermaid dwelt in the calm, green waters of the Helford River. One day, she fell in love with a kind young lawyer. At Mawnam church next Sunday, she slipped sealie-skin for spun silk & charmed first his sisters, then him, whom she married in London the very next month.
#DYK In 1862, when the new buildings of St Thomas' Hospital were under construction near Westminster Bridge, the hospital was temporarily moved to Surrey Gardens. Previously the site was a #Victorian #zoo which rivalled London Zoo. 🐒🦒🐘 Read more here:
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➡️ Princesse Victoria, 1857 Winterhalter
➡️Prince Albert et Vicky, John lucas 1841
➡️Vicky, Frédéric et leur fils, 1862, Winterhalter
Victoria du R-U (1840-1901). Fille aînée de la reine Victoria du R-U et d'Albert.
Impératrice allde et reine de Prusse (mariage avec Frédéric III)
In 1862, Darwin acknowledged to the botanist Asa Gray that "I know almost as well as you, that systematic work is the foundation of everything" #TaxonomistAppreciationDay
@NLWArchives @NLWales @IMEMSAberBangor @wales_books @RC_Archive @liber_ray Oh yes, if only. 'A Dream of Love' by Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919) from Once a Week Vol.7, 1862, in @AberUni @AberArtSchool collections.
Eugène Fredrik Jansson (18 March 1862, Stockholm – 15 June 1915, Skara) was a Swedish painter known for his night-time land- and cityscapes dominated by shades of blue. Towards the end of his life, from about 1904, he mainly painted male nudes.
All the way to enjoy the East River at 86th Street in 1862, Currier & Ives
Today is #WorldWaterDay and in recognition of this here are some images of how engineers work with water to provide us with energy, drainage and a clean supply. Town supply 1864, Drainage of the Fens 1862, artisan waterwheel 1948 Peshawar, Aqueduct by Vitruvius 1511.
"Shipwreck on the Coast", 1862, Eugène Delacroix #Magarte #historiadelarte
#romanticismo #eugenedelacroix
#pinturaalaceite
#arthistory
#painting
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Anselm Feuerbach
(12 Ⅸ 1829-1 Ⅳ 1880)
-Iphigenia I
1862,
oil on canvas,
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.
#September is here! Check out fashions for this month in ages past: 1862, 1875, 1898 &1902. #dresshistory #victorian