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Happy #ChocolateDay to all! Theobroma (Food of the Gods) cocoa, looks very different from a foil covered choco bar. Here is an illustration from Köhler's Medicinal Plants, written by Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834 - 1879, physician & chemist) #chocolate #naturalhistory
@karmendida @LunaLeso @ValerioLivia @arteeblog @yianniseinstein @lagatta4739 @WhyNot16958299 @BrindusaB1 @Hakflak @erminiopasquat1 @tiquetaki @PasqualeTotaro @BaroneZaza70 @dianadep1 @bmarczewska @smarucci461 @BPerrionni W Steelink(1856-1928)Dutch painter/graphic artist, associated w/the Laren School. Father was well-known painter/engraver who gave him his 1st lessons. From 1873 2 1879, studied w/BWijnveld @ the Rijksakademie. Went 2 Antwerp, studied @ the Royal Academy of Fine Arts w/C Verlat.
We're back! #meetthecurator week 3! 5 Lost Buildings: Day 1 – Cowle’s Observatory. This engraving, dated 1879, actually shows three separate buildings, though the engraving is labelled only with the names Stroud Hospital and Trinity Church. The Observatory being marked in pen 😲
''I care more about my pipe than about fame and honours.''
— Honoré Daumier
Here, The Imaginary Invalid, before 1879, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Birthday in the park: Valentine Bartholomew, 1799-1879, English flower painter......https://t.co/eFhowHtsIc (Image: NPG)
January 6, 1879, birthday of Swiss geologist Émile Argand
🎂 As an early supporter of Alfred Wegener (who will present his theory #OTD in 1912) , he used continental drift theory to explain the #Alps as overthrusted & deformed tectonic nappes ⛰️⛰️
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Thread 2a: Muslim communities in China 10th-14th c.
So, after 879, the link between Chinese ports and the M. East becomes more indirect. A large Muslim community forms in Quanzhou, which becomes a major maritime emporium 1/2-way btwn Guangzhou and Hangzhou (near Shanghai).
Diana, 1879, Jules Joseph Lefebvre ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #hairhistory #hairstyle #vintagehair #arthistory #thehairhistorian #JulesJosephLefebvre #redheads #Lefebvre https://t.co/USc75mPCk7
Luna: A Panel, c. 1879, by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, born 28th August 1833. #Stainedglass made by the #design company of #WilliamMorris. #Victorian #art #birthday #newmoon #night #Artlovers
- Victoria et son chien Sharp
- Brown et les chiens de Victoria
Sharp, inhumé ds le jardin personnel de Victoria, à Windsor home Park. On peut lire sur la pierre tombale: "Sharp, le favori et le fidèle Colley de la reine Victoria de 1866 à 1879. Décédé en 1879, âgé de 15 ans."
Knud Baade, 1808 - 1879, Norwegian painter, Norwegian beach party in the moonlight
Knud Baade, 1808 - 1879, Norwegian painter, A Norwegian Fjord by Moonlight