Two of my favourite works from the Bas Meeuws X unsig1102 collection which will drop tomorrow.
Beautiful Lilies. Bassig0771 and Bassig0785.

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Crazy Lizard Army bought for 0.500Ξ ($1785.19) https://t.co/1jKBBeASUE

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Italian anatomist and surgeon Antonio Scarpa (1752-1832) had a new anatomic theatre built at the University of Pavia in 1785. In it, there was a fresco with the figures of medicine and surgery shaking hands, demonstrating the importance of relations between the two.

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Born in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a & one of the first women to become a member of the Royal Academy.

📷 Credit: , "Self-Portrait with Two Pupils" by 1785.

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A barber’s wife apply henna to heroine’s feet. Kangra ca.1785.She mistakes the reddened heel for lump of pigment and rubs it to extract color. B’s wife acted as go-between for separated lovers.

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785. The Forgiving Maiden

First released in Japanese in 2001 and in English in 2003

Which artwork do you prefer?

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Jacob Grimm, the German philologist, jurist & folklorist, was born in 1785. He & his brother Wilhelm first collected folk songs & tales for their friend Achim von Arnim. It was Arnim who encouraged them to publish their collected fairy tales as Kinder- und Hausmärchen.

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La colección iconográfica de Johannes Le Francq (1729-1812) fue adquirida en subasta pública por el Real Gabinete en Ámsterdam en 1785. Su director realizó un inventario manuscrito de la colección, de más de 9.000 piezas.

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In this detail of a study, artist David Wilkie dramatically depicts the burying of the Scottish crown jewels in 1652. 👑 Wilkie was born in 1785.

David Wilkie, Study of Two Figures, ca. 1832. Chalk with gouache on paper

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The Song - Marguerite Gérard, c. 1785. Oil (Louvre Museum).

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❄ Arctic zoology . .
London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1784-1785.
https://t.co/YQrIk12x02

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1785. 소울아크 - 옥정진인

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No problem - here is an illustration of Digitalis purpurea from William Withering: An account of the foxglove. Published in Birmingham in 1785.

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Mr. & Mrs. Hallett, taking their morning walk in 1785. Immortalized by Thomas Gainsborough, whose birthday is today.

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🐦 A general synopsis of birds.
London: Printed for Benj. White, 1781-1785.
https://t.co/S0rZMegUP5

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Part of this publication is OBERON, TITANIA AND PUCK WITH FAIRIES DANCING--one of Blake's largest water colors of the 1780s. Its size and quality suggest that it may have been intended for exhibition, like the Joseph water colors displayed at the Royal Academy in 1785.

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Landscape With A Hut In An Oak Tree And The ‘Man in the Moon’ Inn by Anthony Devis, oil on canvas 1785.

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Happy birthday Jacob Grimm! The elder of the folklorist brothers was born 1785. Read Jack Zipes' essay "The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm" in which he explores the importance of the neglected 1st edition of their Kinder-und Hausmärchen: https://t.co/Oe3r5W0KV8

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