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He painted The Railway in 1873. It too met with confusion. On the Beach (1873) & Boating (1874). Railways were still new & the height of modernity. The painting has been interpreted in many ways. Manet painted many boring shipping scenes (I’ve left them out).
🕷 Harvesting ants and trap-door spiders.
London, L. Reeve & co., 1873.
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🐦 The birds of Great Britain
London: Printed by Taylor and Francis, published by the author, 1873.
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‘Turtle Doves’ from John Gould's 'The Birds of Great Britain', issued in parts 1863-1873. Hopefully some Turtle Doves will arrive in the UK by late April.
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (1817-1900). Sunset over Ischia, 1873.
The Angels of the Hierarchy - Archangeli, Virtutes and Dominions. Stained glass designs by Edward Burne-Jones for Jesus College, Cambridge, 1873.
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Marbled boards and fore-edge on the 5 volume set “The Works of Lord Macaulay,” published in 1873.
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Illustrations from 'Around the World in 80 Days', by the French writer, Jules Verne (1828–1905) - a novel published in 1873. The artist is Jonathan Burton. “It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.” #BookIllustrationOfTheDay #JulesVerne
#ZSLLibrary is open today but will be closed tomorrow Wednesday 18 December. We are open again as usual on Thursday. As a black-throated thrush has been spotted @ZSLWhipsnadeZoo we thought you may like to see a lithograph of a couple from Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', 1873.
“El camino de hierro” o “El ferrocarril” es una obra de Édouard Manet de 1873. En esta pintura del precursor de los impresionistas, podemos ver las pinceladas que se agolpan, trazos sueltos que a la distancia se transforman en figuras vivas.
You may see moorhens nesting at around this time of year, so be sure to look out for them if you're near any bodies of water this week. This lithograph can be found inside John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', Vol. 4, 1873. #LondonRiversWeek
You'll often see just a flash of blue as these colourful birds fly past, but if you're very lucky you may see them perched and ready to dive for fish! These kingfishers are from John Gould's 'Birds of Great Britain', Vol. 2, 1873. #LondonRiversWeek
Giovanni Boldini, Italian, 1842-1931 -- Highway of Combs-la-Ville
1873.
The Great Cave, Pictured Rocks, Lake Superior, Michigan by Thomas Moran, oil on canvas 1873.
Willa Cather, born December 7, 1873.
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."