🍄 Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms.
London, Printed by J. Davis, 1797-[1809].
https://t.co/z6leosr9Xo

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Wood engraving of male Blackbird by Thomas Bewick in his A History of British Birds, 1797 art

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Osayo and Genta by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)

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February 18, 1775: British watercolourist and etcher Thomas Girtin is born.

At a time when oil painting was the norm, Girtin helped to establish watercolour as a reputable and desirable medium.

🎨 Thomas Girtin, "Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland", 1797-99

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Thomas Girtin's 'Ruins'

Tynemouth Priory, Northumberland, c. 1793
Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, c. 1797-99
Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, 1798
Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, 1801

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Furukawa River, Hiroo, by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)

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1797 a Fleet under Adm Jervis in HMS VICTORY defeated a Spanish Fleet off Portugal at Cape St Vincent. The battle also featured one Horatio Nelson in HMS CAPTAIN & Cuthbert Collingwood in HMS EXCELLENT. The victory was a success of teamwork

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Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734 – 1797, English landscape and portrait painter, The Widow of an Indian Chief Watching the Arms of Her Deceased Husband

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Napoleonic French grenadier of the line 1797

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Que se la llevaron! - Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (1797 - 1799)

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2月1日は【メアリー・シェリーの命日】
1797年、ロンドンに生まれたメアリーは、16歳の時に恋人のパーシー・シェリーと駆け落ちしてフランスへ渡った。帰国後の1818年、メアリーは20歳で『フランケンシュタイン』を刊行、SF小説の先駆的作品として評価された。1851年2月1日逝去。

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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (Germany, 1797-1855)

Cathedral in Winter

Landschaft bei Maxen mit Blick auf das Elbsandsteingebirge

Stolpen, Gesamtansicht

Burg Scharfenberg at Night

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1月31日
「シューベルトの日」

1797(寛政9)年1月31日、
音楽家フランツ・シューベルトが
誕生しました。
「未完成交響曲」をはじめ
1000曲にも及ぶ作品を
書き残しています。
シューベルトの幼少期は?
↓こちらで読めます↓💁‍♀️
https://t.co/SS9sdXCThy


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Le 13 janvier 1797, le 74 canons Les Droits de l'Homme rencontre au large des côtes bretonnes les frégates anglaises Indefatigable et Amazon. Durant le combat, le vaisseau et l'Amazon s'échouent sur un banc de sable. Les navires sont perdus et de nombreux marins périssent noyés.

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Fugu and Inada Fish, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish), by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858)

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Happy New Year's Eve from all of us at the Ashmolean! We hope you're evening looks something like this. These partying frogs & goldfish appear in a woodblock print by Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861).

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ハーフリング --(`·ω·´)(゚∀゚)ノ< halfling ゥ! 1797リング目

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And, of course, the great Olaudah Equiano (c1745-1797) whose wife was from Wisbech, and who is buried in St Andrew’s church, Chesterton, now in Cambridge city https://t.co/LVHRf1nSIs

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Nightscapes by Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797). Derby is famed for "Painting the British Enlightenment". Depicting industrialisation and "the birth of science out of alchemy." His nocturnal landscapes are surprisingly sublime.

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Fight of HMS Indefatigable, third-rate ships-of-the-line designed by Sir Thomas Slade(left), and Droits de l'Homme, 1797, as depicted by Léopold le Guen (1853).

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