Grace Darling assured her status as a real life & folk heroine in 1838, when she rowed out to rescue survivors from a shipwreck off the Northumberland coast. She inspired countless street ballads, fiction, even figurines, and many requests for locks of her hair

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🦃 Historia fisica, politica y natural de la isla de Cuba.
Paris: A. Bertrand, 1838-1861.
https://t.co/XMiVDrrDQL

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Natural history in the park: Magasin de zoologie......Paris, Lequien fils,1831-1838..........8 vols, BHL/Ernst Mayr Library........https://t.co/uBUjWWPSp9

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JEAN LOUIS PREVOST 1838-1927

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"Afternoon Tea" - Emma Ekwall, Swedish (1838 - 1925)

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...she <Nancy> drew from her bosom a white handkerchief—Rose Maylie's own—and holding it up, in her folded hands, as high towards Heaven as her feeble strength would allow, breathed one prayer for mercy to her Maker.
😢💔



Art: FW Pailthorpe(1838)

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Edward Dodwell (1769-1838)-'the Hyperian fountain at Pherae'-drawing in Views in Greece by the English traveller and archaeologist, London (1821)

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28 mars 1838: naissance de Jean-Paul Laurens, sculpteur, peintre français.
➡️Mort de Tibère,1864.
L'empereur romain Tibère meurt en 37. Tibère serait mort étouffé sur ordre du préfet du prétoire Macron selon Tacite.

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"Versace Venus" // "Vénus Anadyomène" by Théodore Chasseriau (1838)

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Design for a Jardinière,or table à fleurs, made for C.W., Sweden
from Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1812
Charles Percier (French 1764-1838)

Made of mahogany and lead,with gold and silver fish in a crystal bowl and a small birdcage above, topped by a statue of Hebe

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Edward Dodwell (1769-1838)-'bazaar of Athens'-drawing in Views in Greece by the English traveller and archaeologist, London (1821)

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List of Noble Ladies, by Yōshū Chikanobu (1838-1912)

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Came across this pangolin last week. Inside a publication from 1838 held in

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Good Day!
The Island of Trænen in Nordland by Knud Baade 1838
Oil
(National Gallery, Oslo, Norway)

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Parents woken by their Baby (1838), Workmen on the Street (1838-40), A Nasty Cold in the Head (1839) & the Beautiful Narcissus (c1840s). I love the timelessness of his sleep deprived parents & the ludicrous figure of Narcissus.

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