“We raise the watch-word liberty;
We will, we will, we will be free!”

The Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of Dorset rural labourers who were arrested for swearing a secret oath as members of a friendly society, were sentenced to penal transportation to Australia 1834.

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🐸 Erpétologie générale, ou, Histoire naturelle complète des reptiles
Paris: Roret, 1834-1854.
https://t.co/HuA94T9Ocm

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Sphinxes of Amenhotep III in 19th century painting 🎨
'Autumn night in St. Petersburg. Pier with Egyptian Sphinxes on the Neva river at night', Maxim Vorobiev. 1834-1835. Canvas, oil
National Art Museum of Belarus, Minsk.

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A happy Thursday all....



Pietro Sassi (1834 – 1905)

La Salita del Pincio, 1874

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Born in 1856: English-born Australian painter (1856-1931)

Portrait of William Windeyer (1834-97), 1892

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Charles Léon Bonvin (1834–1866) was a French watercolor artist known for genre painting, realist still life and delicate and melancholic landscapes.

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Photographer: Felice Beato (Italian, 1834–1907)

Yokohama

1865

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Thank you Ann for visiting Canterbury on June 13th 1834 and writing out all bits and bobs about the Cathedral! I loved it! This warms my 💓 "The shops appear very good particularly for muslins in which trade and silk. Besides celebrated brawn the town excels."

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1/ Stunning high resolution images of illustrations by German biologist &artist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) from his 1904 book Art Forms in Nature (Kunstformen der Natur). These drawings of flora &fauna influenced the Art Nouveau movement. It's not hard to see why and how. A THREAD

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Memory of a wooded island in the Baltic Sea (Oak trees by the Sea) (1834-35) Carl Gustav Carus (Germany, 1789–1869). The artist studied under Caspar David Friedrich.

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How Ernst Haeckel, born on this day in 1834, turned his greatest heartbreak into transcendent art celebrating the science of nature, coined the word "ecology," and enchanted Darwin with his sublime scientific illustration https://t.co/0B8GP1lePt

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Anne shows no interest in the Lake Poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) and Robert Southey (1774-1843).
Southey, Poet laureate, lived at Greta Hall, Keswick from 1804 with his & Coleridge's family since Coleridge abandoned them. Author of Goldilocks and the Three Bears etc.

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Jan Verhas
(Belgian, 1834-1896)

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The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834

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Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

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🌊 Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe:
Paris: J. Tastu, 1830-1834.
https://t.co/3wLoJGtyZm

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The starts this week so we have been doing a spot of twitching on our bookshelves for What about these beautiful specimens from the 'Feathered Tribe of the British Islands' (1834)?

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Lovely engraving of The Side, 1834 with St Nicholas Cathedral in the background.

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