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Paul Sandby (1731-1809)
Windsor Castle from Datchet Lane on a rejoicing night, 1768.
#EnglishArt #Landscape
‘Either the British army must be fed and supplied with the necessaries which they require, or I shall march them back into Portugal…’ Wellington to Marquis Wellesley 13th Aug 1809, at the end of his tether re lack of provisions in Spain. #WellingtonWednesday
A starving army is actually worse than none. The soldiers lose their discipline and their spirit... The officers are discontented, and are almost as bad as the men... I should now hesitate to meet a French corps of half their strength.’ Wellington Aug 1809
#WellingtonWednesday
エドガー・アラン・ポー(1809-49)は今日10月7日で没後170年。仏象徴派に多大な影響を与えた詩人であり、ミステリー小説の元祖とも言われる。「分析家がありとあらゆる方法を尽して得た結論は、直観によるものにしか見えないのだ」
ポーを主人公とする映画(1909DWグリフィス) https://t.co/kn7xQVEOQz
#Art on the Weekend
Scene from Shakespeare's
"The Taming of the Shrew"
(Katharina and Petruchio)
Washington Allston
1809
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia
USA
@LuciaTassan @emanuelaneri14 @redne2013 @ElieBautista @mariaireneali @___Diamonddust_ @Hakflak
#9月22日、#横井小楠 誕生(1809・太陽暦換算、学者)、#ヴィルヘルム・カイテル 誕生(1882、軍人)、#坂町事件(1946、在日中国人・朝鮮人による警官隊襲撃)、#横井庄一 没(1997、軍人)、#ジョージ・C・スコット 没(1999、俳優)、#坂井三郎 没(2000、撃墜王)、つづく
"A Kalmuc [#Kalmyk] man & woman and a Priest of that Nation - a Nogay [#Nogai] Musician and peasants of Russia Minor in their summer dresses - Inguskians [#Ingush], Inhabitants of Mount #Caucasus and a Turkhman [#Turkmen]." | Smith's Geography, by Sherwood, Neely & Jones, (1809).
"Great Mysticete" (Baleen whale), 1809 copper engraved print. Zoological Lectures at the Royal Institution in the Years 1806 and 1807 by George Shaw.
Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td #OTD
Oooh! More clowns at sea, this time its the Duke of York and Colonel Wardle aboard Mary Anne Clarke, who is breasting the 'Sea of Disapprobation' - perhaps they are heading for a #Chigwell hideout, published in #London July 29th 1809 #cruisebrawl
It's #FungiFriday! James Sowerby's "Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms" (1797-1809), with 440 hand-colored engraved plates after Sowerby, has been called "one of the finest works on mushrooms and fungi". Find it in #BHLib thanks to @NYBG ➡️ https://t.co/cqsKhInmF9
''Sappho and Phaon'' by Jacques-Louis David (1809), at @state_hermitage
#neoclassicism
#OTD 1809 Byron and his travelling companion Hobhouse land at Lisbon at the beginning of their epic European tour.
What beauties doth Lisboa first unfold!
Her image floating on that noble tide,
Which poets vainly pave with sands of gold
Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey among Oak Trees, oil on canvas, 1809-10