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🦃 Historia fisica, politica y natural de la isla de Cuba.
Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838-1861.
https://t.co/XMiVDrrDQL
🐦 Avium species novae, quas in itinere annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX per Brasiliam
Monachii: Impensis editores, 1838-1839.
https://t.co/qEXIRRMMTT
Born #OnThisDay in 1757: #GeorgianaCavendish (1757-1806), Duchess of Devonshire
Portrait as Diana by #MariaCosway (1760-1838), ca. 1781-2
#GeorgianaSpencer #Georgian #WomenArtists
Settling down to read "#Dickens & Women Reobserved." Until now, I've only seen my own article (obviously!) which claims Lizzie Hexam's scandalous rowing in OMF is inspired by shipwreck heroine Grace Darling (1838). Now I can discover them ALL, and so should you! @Dickens_Society
#WorldEnvironmentDay2020 #ForNature #TimeForNature
John James Audubon, Birds of America, (1827-1838) Columbian hummingbirds with Virginia saltmarsh mallow hibiscus virginicus. 🌺🌺
#Fitzvirtual #MuseumFromHome
🐦 Avium species novae, quas in itinere annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX per Brasiliam
Monachii: Impensis editores, 1838-1839.
https://t.co/6x9dcLmPIS
🐼 Compléments de Buffon. t.1.
Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1838.
https://t.co/aME6EIBe00
Palmer visited Italy for two years (1837) The Colloseum, Rome (1837-9), Italian Hill Town (c1838) & Cypresses of the Villa d’Este (1838). I particularly love his intense study of Cypresses. In the 19th C Cypresses were popular with aesthetes
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & Ireland (1819-1901)
Portrait drawing by #AlfredEdwardChalon (1780-1860), 1838
#Hanover #Victorian
Written by Jean de La Fontaine (Château-Thierry 1621–1695 Paris)
Illustrator: Charles Percier (Paris 1764–1838 Paris)
'The Vampire' (1841) is a gothic novella by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, first published under the pseudonym of Krasnorogsky. The inspiration for the story was Tolstoy's stay in Italy in 1838. Tolstoy's writing on vampires was partly influenced by 'The Vampyre' by Polidori.
Hansen created sublime images of the Campagna & evoked the atmosphere of the ancient temples. Vesta Temple in Rome (1837), Columns of the Temple of Neptune, Paestum (1838), The Arch of Titus, Rome (1839) & Resting Model (1839)
Adolphe Weisz (11 May 1838-17 July 1900) was an Hungarian French painter.
Grace’s father, William, was keeper of the Longstone Lighthouse on one of the islands. On the evening of 7 September 1838, while looking out of the window of the lighthouse during a raging storm, Grace spotted the wreck and survivors of the Forfarshire.
John Wilkes Booth, shown here with the devil tempting him, was born #OnThisDay in 1838. He was just 26 when he assassinated #AbrahamLincoln.
Birthday in the park; Henry Eeles Dresser, 1838-1915, ornithologist....... https://t.co/fr9q3EzWIH