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OTD in 1871, ‘Ashcan School’ painter John Sloan is born. He chronicled the everyday life of the everyman/woman of #GreenwichVillage+the #EastVillage, as well as co-declaring “The Independent Republic of #WashingtonSquare.” Today we look at his life + art: https://t.co/pt55O0ShM8
#OTD 1871, John Wesley Powell's expedition embarks on a second voyage down the Colorado River, following on his famous 1869 survey. Our #ObjectoftheMonth is this 1936 painting by William Henry Jackson showing a camp scene in Marble Canyon from the 1871 expedition (INTR 03003).
"On the Banks of the Doune, Scotland," 1871, by Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872), which had been in the same family for generations, sold for $55,000 (est. $35,000/50,000) at @SwannGalleries https://t.co/yICpwXw0OW #art #artist #antiques #antique #Scotland #Doune #Duncanson
Mary & Elizabeth Kirby's book 'The Sea and its wonders',1871, is global in scope & is not simply a guide to the British seashore, it includes oceanography, chemistry & biology as well as information about seals! #InternationalDayoftheSeal #HerNaturalHistory #WomensHistoryMonth
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.
Explore this story at https://t.co/9zFy76ox2v
#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
Roses, 1871, Henri Fantin-Latour #Aflowerblossomsforitsownjoy https://t.co/NoXUFmcT9T
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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.