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New in the Transit Maps print store!
Isochronous maps of travel times in Brandenburg, Germany in 1819, 1851, 1875 and 1899, all on one sheet (2 variants):
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And the gorgeous 1819 map as an individual print:
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Born #OnThisDay in 1840: #CharlotteofBelgium (1840-1927), Empress of Mexico as wife of #MaximilianofAustria, daughter of #LeopoldI
Portrait as a child by her cousin Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
#CarlotadeMéxico #SaxeCoburgGotha #Habsburg
#ChildrenInArt
In June 'tis good to lie beneath a tree
While the blithe season comforts every sense,
Steeps all the brain in rest, and heals the heart,
Brimming it o'er with sweetness unawares.
–James Russell Lowell (1819–91)
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth & sun & the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, devote your income & labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience & indulgence toward people..."
- Walt Whitman, born #OTD in 1819
#OTD 1819 Shelley writes "‘Those writings which I have hitherto published, have been little else than visions which impersonate my own apprehensions of the beautiful and the just. I can also perceive in them the literary defects incidental to youth and impatience..."
カルペパー「ハーブ事典」(1819)
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17世紀イギリスの薬剤師ニコラス・カルペパー(1616-54)によるハーブ事典より。本書はイギリスにおいて薬草療法を確立したカルペパーの主著。1653年の初版発行以来、繰り返し再版され続けてきた古典的本草書です。
#天牛書店Images #イラスト
I can hear the sweet call of my bed so time to say good night, twitterers United. Sleep well, sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite.
Sebastian Pether, English landscape painter (1790-1844)
Moonlight Scene (1819)
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & Ireland (1819-1901)
Portrait by #AlbertGraefle (1807-89), 1864
#Hanover #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & Ireland (1819-1901)
Portrait with her son Prince Arthur by Franz Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1847
#Hanover #Victorian #ChildrenInArt
Palmer was born in London & grew up in a religious family. He was a child prodigy & exhibited at the RA at the age of 14. He was friends with John Linnell & met William Blake who inspired him. Self-Portrait (c1824-5), Sketch from Sion Park (1819) & Hailsham Sussex (1821)
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & Ireland (1819-1901)
Portrait dressed in the mantle of the Garter by Franz Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1843
#Hanover #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & Ireland (1819-1901)
Portrait drawing by #AlfredEdwardChalon (1780-1860), 1838
#Hanover #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & Ireland (1819-1901)
Portrait at the Drury Lane Theatre, November 1837 by #EdmundThomasParris (1793-1873), 1837
#Hanover #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & Ireland (1819-1901)
Portrait as a girl by #JohnBradley (1786-1843), 1830
#Hanover #Victorian #ChildrenInArt
by Gustave Courbet - 1819 -1977
Waves [1869]
Philadelphia Museum of Art -
Oil on canvas,
75.9 x 151.4 cm
5月20日は天才ピアニスト,作曲家クラーラ・シューマン(1819-95)の命日。作曲家ロベルト・シューマンの妻で8人の子供の母。ベートーヴェン作曲のピアノの持つ表現能力を極めた難曲「ハンマークラヴィーア」が弾けた凄腕。夫の弟子ブラームスとは親交が深くクララが没した翌年、彼は後を追うように病没。
John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 – 1906) was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist. He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald" for his main genre.