Great Auks by John James Audubon (1785-1851)

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John James Audubon (1785-1851) spent time in nature drawing birds. When his small business went bankrupt he packed up his artist materials and ventured into the wild. His timeless bird studies are still renowned today. Trinity : Tel. 01386 859329

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OUR LADY OF SORROWS: Telling the story of one who led a revolt in 1785 on the San Gabriel Mission and invasive Spanish rule, with help from surrounding villages and neophytes. Please join me in bringing her story to light:

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ตุ๊กต Bin Bin & Jay Jay (15 Cm) by
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ババ引きは顔に出るから弱い1785

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【帰ってきたカグヤ】
令和一番乗りのフリーゲーム!
天明5年(1785年)に突如現れたカグヤと名乗る少女。これは果たして「竹取物語」なのか…?
シンプルなマルチエンド短編ノベルゲームです。

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Happy birthday to John James born in 1785. His most famous work, "The Birds of America," consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints; and includes images of several birds that are now extinct, like the great auk and the passenger pigeon. https://t.co/xOKpHhpA9j

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April 26, 1785: Artist and ornithologist John James Audubon is born.

“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.” As if anyone could ever describe an Audubon illustration as anything short of magnificent.

🎨 John James Audubon, "Blue Jays"

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In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.
- John James Audubon, born today in 1785

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Seems apt 's featured picture today is Adélaïde Labille-Guiard's 'Self-Portrait with Two Pupils' (1785) b/c today is 's & 'Wikipedia Edit-a-thon', organised by . -- the first one in the North!

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Such sweet little details in an already beautiful book: the first edition of von Trebra's Erfahrungen vom Innern der Gebirge, 1785, a geognostic description of the Harz Mountains with hand-coloured engravings showing people out and about in the countryside https://t.co/kiADyvSrGR

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【小田海僊 おだかいせん】
1785-1862 山口出身。日本画家。京都で円山四条派:松村呉春に師事。同門の松村景文,岡本豊彦らと競う。のち頼山陽に感化され文人,南画に転向。浦上春琴,田能村竹田らと交友。花鳥山水,人物画を得意とす。門弟に富岡鉄斎ら。大槻玄沢像,薛涛図,京都御所障壁画, 海僊十八描法

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The iconographic collection gathered by the Dutch naturalist Johannes van Berkhey, was acquired in 1785 by the The collection intended to be a compilation of the natural world known until then, consisted of more than 9,000 plates

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pixivの方に原寸(2339x1785)を投稿しました。もしよかったらデスクトップの背景などにどうぞ!/ 宴会マミゾウさん https://t.co/LA6jX3Lz4y

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Egretta tricolor, tricolored heron. Plate 217 from John James Audubon's (1785-1851) Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (and Son), London

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"The frog came once more, and said,
'Open the door, my dear,
...And mind the words that thou and I said
By the cool, in the greenwood shade.'"
It's the 234th birthday of writer Jacob born in 1785.

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Catching up with some of the with the ACEO size drawings Comb by kitagana Utamaro 1785 and Wheel of Fortune, Burne Jones 1883

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