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Four profile portraits that Queen Victoria painted of her fourth daughter Princess Louise, who was married on this day in 1871, in January 1849, 1858, June 1858 and July 1866. Victoria painted dozens (hundreds even) of portraits of her children as they grew up and as adults.
#OnThisDay , December 25, 1871, at the age of twenty-four, Edison married 16-year-old Mary Stilwell (1855–1884), whom he had met two months earlier; she was an employee at one of his shops.
#thomasedison #25December #art
'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
#OnThisDay in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone ill and despondent in Tanzania, having abandoned his search for the source of the Nile.
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#otd in 1871, a total solar eclipse occurred. Here astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer waits to observe the eclipse in India. #astronomy #astronomers
#solareclipse #normanlockyer #telescope #telescopes
Illustrator Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery: Nicolas Henri Jacob, 1782-1871, Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, 8 vols, 1831-54. #histmed
Nicolas Henri Jacob, 1782-1871, illustrator: Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery, Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, 8 vols, 1831-54. #histmed
Nicolas Henri Jacob, 1782-1871, illustrator: Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery, Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, 8 vols, 1831-54. #histmed
Nicolas Henri Jacob, 1782-1871, illustrator: Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery, Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, 8 vols, 1831-54. #histmed
Scottish Colourist S J Peploe was born #onthisday in 1871, his bold "Still Life" (1930) belongs to @aberdeenuni
#OTD in 1871, Otis Swamm, having married a Sioux woman after 10-years in the Indian Territory, was court-martialed.