Impressionist and 19thC at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, Brittany French Gustave Caillebotte, Eugène Boudin, Alfred Sisley, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

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Sketch bust of my france oc during franco-prussian war 😀

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🎉🎂Joyeux anniversaire, Monsieur Manet, born in 1832. For this special occasion, I am sharing a playful pod of porpoises. That’s right, PAINTED PORPOISES🐬🐬🐬❗️ Pictured: ‘The Steamboat: Seascape with Porpoises’1868 . 🌊#19thC

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Looks like this beetle's got the reading bug. "Alphabets des Insectes," a 19thC book, pairs every letter w/ a word that's illustrated using a cast of anthropomorphized insects.

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Bicycle Face – A Fictitious Disease of the 1800s. Learn more. https://t.co/6lsFaatmAr

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The London Boardmen were said to often be thrown from the pavement by police into the road at the mercy of cabs.

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"you know what François this gun can obliterate single platoon in a minute"
France 2nd empire infantri man 1870, from the left :
>Chasseur Light Infantry
>Line Infantri
>Field Artilliery

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Swirls of green, with some cream and a dash of red spill across this festive paper.
This is found on our copy of Histoire complète de la noblesse de France, printed in Paris in 1862.
https://t.co/ov7HlUEVgI

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Emperor Joshua Norton I declared himself supreme ruler of the United States in 1859: his avowed intention was to restore stability and integrity to a country he felt was falling into ruin.

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This is an 1880s photo of 653 W Wrightwood in Chicago. Note the wooden sidewalk, dirt road and lack of buildings surrounding the edifice.

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Very excited that my paper on Conrad Dressler's ceramic sculptures has been accepted for 'Expanding the Ceramic Field in the Long 19thC' at the AAH 2019

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