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Not all Victorian photos are sombre and straight-laced - take these wonderful shots from 1872. They are tintypes of Walter Fawdon goofing around in various guises for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. They somehow bridge that 149-year chasm and make him very immediate 🤩

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"Christ Leaving the Court" by French artist Gustave Dore, circa between 1867 & 1872. At the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

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2021-03-27

Horizontal section of the brain by C. Schmiedel from 'Topographical-anatomical atlas after sections on frozen cadavers' by Wilhelm Braune, 1872.

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2021-03-14

Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson was born on this day, February 5, in 1872.

Four year after his wife, Mabel, died from the 1918 Pandemic, he illustrated “The Velveteen Rabbit”.

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2021-02-06

Alexei Bogoliubov - Venice, 1872.
Saratov State Art Museum.

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2021-01-31

🦎 Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum /.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1855-1872.
https://t.co/rwrGLgPF3l

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2021-01-21

Böcklin was back in Munich by 1872. Self-Portrait (1872), Nymph on Pan’s Shoulders (1874), Vestalin (1874) & Idyll (1875). Nowadays we see the escapism of his work & it’s lack of imagination, but at the time such work was part of popular culture & yearning.

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2021-01-18

Lluís Masriera was a Catalan jewelry artist born in 1872.

Google him, you gonna love his works.

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2021-01-17

2 January 1872. Brigham Young (aged 71), the second president of The Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) was arrested for bigamy. It was discovered he had 25 wives.

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2021-01-02

• "The Wild Hunt Of Odin" (Åsgårdsreien) by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1872.

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2020-12-24

Today's broken book is more like a 'badly stuck back together' book... The Floral World and Garden Guide edited by Shirley Hibberd from 1872...

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2020-12-21

おやすみなさい👼また明日🌈

ハインリッヒ・フォーゲラー
(1872.12.12 - 1942.6.14)
“Die Königin” 1902年

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2020-12-12

My entry to November’s is a dandy Fox Adventurer.

Filleas Foxx

Based on the story "Around The World in 80 Days". Filleas Foxx is a dapper explorer setting off on his adventure from London in 1872.

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2020-12-02

“Niños del mar” es una pintura del artista holandés Jozef Israëls realizada en 1872. Un tema que utilizó en muchas ocasiones.

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2020-10-05

Autumn is here and that trip to the park isn't going to be the same for quite a while! 🍂

Going to the Park by John Everett Millais, 1871-1872.

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2020-10-01

Thomas Moran (1837-1926). Hot Springs of the Yellowstone, 1872.

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2020-09-15

El día internacional de la Mujer indígena se celebra en memoria a Bartolina Sisa, mujer aymara que comandó la sublevación indígena contra la colonia española, fue públicamente descuartizada el 5 de septiembre de 1872.

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2020-09-05

The Automatic Centurion, a robotic guard that was patented in the Irusan Union shortly after the Civil War in 1872.

Heavily inspired by the Dishonored 2 Clockwork Soldiers.

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2020-09-01

🗿 Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum /.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1855-1872.
https://t.co/v9TeVAtjYs

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2020-08-31

30/8/1908 m. Giovanni Fattori, pittore e incisore. È ritenuto uno dei maggiori pittori italiani dell'Ottocento e tra i principali esponenti del movimento dei Macchiaioli.

🎨 "In vedetta", 1872.

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