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François Bonvin, Attributes of Music, 1863 https://t.co/WZo3Y52qhk #cmaopenaccess #clevelandartmuseum
The first underground railway in the world, the Metropolitan railway was officially opened in London #onthisday 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon, engineer John Fowler.
Found these awesome lithographs of "Amduscias" (left) & "Behemoth" (right) yesterday while looking through the 1863 edition of Collin de Plancy's *Dictionnaire Infernal*
#Occult #Magic #Supernatural
Cover of "La Vi Parisienne", 17th December 1921
"La Vie Parisienne" ("The Parisian Life") was a French weekly magazine founded in Paris in 1863 and was published without interruption until 1970. It was popular at the start of the 20th century.
What links Galadriel with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Helen of Troy (1863) and Lady Lilith (1866–1868)? Find out in my #Oxonmoot 2020 keynote on #Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (from about 19 minutes in): https://t.co/F4NkVNSq9A
@TolkienSociety @UofGFantasy
🌈✏️Doodled Punk #1863
just purchased for Ξ0.0769 ($294.08)
https://t.co/NFLy1abQCh
#OtD 1 Jan 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, not because he was anti-racist but to undermine Confederacy: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white & Black races": https://t.co/s6STHbJtVW
RIGHT NOW in 1863, President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation takes effect. "All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a state in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
"The Snowman" (S. XIX) (Private Collection) by Jan Walraven (Dutch, 1827-1863)
"Vipera Ferro Di Lancia - Vipera lanceolata"
Here is a rare and beautiful lithograph from the "Atlante Zoologico Popolare" published in Naples (1863) by Giovanni Boschi. Made by Raimondo Petraroja.
https://t.co/8j0W94v7D0
The Autumn Bacchus and Ariadne, 1863 https://t.co/Ah3p2SrTl5 #romanticism #eugenedelacroix
When Thomas Nast published a series of drawings of Santa Claus for Harper’s Weekly from 1863-1866 he helped create the fatherly figure in red that we know today, proving his white bearded, fur-cloaked, pipe-smoking Pelznickel predated Coca Cola's Santa by almost 70 yrs 🎅
#Xmas