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Great Ape #8606 bought for 0.199 ETH ($785.35) https://t.co/LDLyiRvsfj
Born #OnThisDay in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a #French #portrait #painter & one of the first women to become a member of the Royal Academy.
📷 Credit: @WikiCommons, "Self-Portrait with Two Pupils" by #AdélaïdeLabilleGuiard, 1785.
#birthday #OTD
785. The Forgiving Maiden
First released in Japanese in 2001 and in English in 2003
Which artwork do you prefer?
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#HistoriaMNCN La colección iconográfica de Johannes Le Francq #vanBerkhey (1729-1812) fue adquirida en subasta pública por el Real Gabinete en Ámsterdam en 1785. Su director #FrancoDávila realizó un inventario manuscrito de la colección, de más de 9.000 piezas. #NatHist #SciArt
In this detail of a study, artist David Wilkie dramatically depicts the burying of the Scottish crown jewels in 1652. 👑 Wilkie was born #onthisday in 1785.
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David Wilkie, Study of Two Figures, ca. 1832. Chalk with gouache on paper #FrickCollection
The Song - Marguerite Gérard, c. 1785. Oil #painting (Louvre Museum).
❄ Arctic zoology . .
London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1784-1785.
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@FletcherFoley @LTMID1 No problem - here is an illustration of Digitalis purpurea from William Withering: An account of the foxglove. Published in Birmingham in 1785.
Mr. & Mrs. Hallett, taking their morning walk in 1785. Immortalized by Thomas Gainsborough, whose birthday is today.
🐦 A general synopsis of birds.
London: Printed for Benj. White, 1781-1785.
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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.
Landscape With A Hut In An Oak Tree And The ‘Man in the Moon’ Inn by Anthony Devis, oil on canvas 1785.
Happy birthday Jacob Grimm! The elder of the folklorist brothers was born #onthisday 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
Principal Sam's Calendar
January 4
Jacob Grimm of Grimm's Fairy Tales was born on this day in 1785.
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Here's my first book: https://t.co/7ClmeYGrpY
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#OnThisDay
Ormolu-mounted mahogany, ebony, & fruitwood writing table made by Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) around 1785. It was originally supplied to Marie-Antoinette. It sold for $1,372,640 at @ChristiesInc https://t.co/HywQJsXRcn #antiques #antique #France #French #furniture #Marie