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John Rennie's Southwark Bridge opened #onthisday 1819. Originally called Queen Street bridge, the centre span was said to be the longest cast iron span ever built, at 240ft (73m). It was replaced in 1921 as it was too narrow to cope with the growing traffic.
Botticelli - “The Birth of Venus” (c.1486)
Velázquez - “Las Meninas” (1656)
Vermeer - “The Allegory of Painting” (1668)
Géricault - “The Raft of Medusa” (1819)
©️ José Manuel Ballester
English naturalist William Turton's passion was conchology. He published several illustrated #shell books, including "A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands" (1819). The work is free online thanks to @museumsvictoria @bhl_au ➡️ https://t.co/DHC4PvADww
#MolluskMonday
Beautiful illustrations of Tulips by Mary Moser (1744-1819) to bring a little Spring colour 💐
Edwin Hayes (1819-1904) Seascape and Storm (n.d.). Hayes was one of the great marine painters of his day and lived his youth in Dublin, where his father was a hotelier. Painted boats and ships on the high seas off Ireland and continental Europe. He loved a good storm
Henry Fuseli- 'Ariel'- circa 1800-1810
Henry Singleton - 'Ariel on a Bat's Back' - 1819
Joseph Severn - 'Ariel Riding on a Bat'- 1830
H.C. Selous - 'Ariel: on the Bat's Back I Do Fly' - 1870
"Mermaid" (1873) by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819–1881). Oil on canvas; 96 cm x 126 cm. Women's Museum. Aarhus, Denmark. #MythologyMonday
🐦 The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country:
London: Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington . ., 1794[-1819]
https://t.co/R9jB5vrmss
🐦 The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country:
London: Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington . ., 1794[-1819]
https://t.co/LqxjB6QXku
Édouard Louis Dubufe (31 March 1819 – 11 August 1883 ) was a French painter.The-garden of delights Maria Ricci, Countess Walewska oil-paintings
Édouard Dubufe (31 March 1819 - 11 August 1883 Versailles) was a French portrait painter
Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann (Warsaw, 1819-1881)
The Reading
A Wounded Danish Soldier (1865)
メアリー・モーザー(Mary Moser RA)
18世紀後期より活躍を開始した、花の絵を得意とするイギリス人女性画家。1768年にロイヤル・アカデミー・オブ・アーツの創立会員に選ばれた女性は、アンゲリカ・カウフマンと二人だけであった。1819年のモーザー死後、再び女性が選ばれるようになるのは1936年。
🐦 The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country:
London: Printed for the author, and for F. and C. Rivington . ., 1794[-1819]
https://t.co/IrbZABXFdt
William Blake, The Ghost of a Flea, 1819. Bandersnatch, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, 2000.
16 février 1819 : Décès de Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, artiste peintre français néo-classique, spécialisé dans la peinture de paysage.
by Friedrich Caspar David
(b. 1774, Greifswald, d. 1840, Dresden)On the Sailing Boat 1819
media Oil on canvas,
dimensions 71 x 56 cm
Location The Hermitage, St. Petersburg