The Rebecca riots took place in the rural parts of west Wales in 1839-1843. They were a series of protests made by tenant farmers against the payment of tolls charged to use the roads. https://t.co/s665qfDNZv
Helyntion Beca: https://t.co/GmXwZiiSHJ

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Bateman was also the author of "The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala" ([1837]-1843), the largest botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates. It features by Sarah Anne Drake & Augusta Withers. Learn more on our blog ➡️ https://t.co/UP3k22DSae

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“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”
~Gertrude Jekyll, (1843–1932)




June

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By Matsumura Keibun (1779 - 1843)

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Alexandre-Georges-Henri Regnault.1843-1871. Thetis Brings the Arms Forged by Vulcan to Achilles.1866.

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1. Map of the and the rout of the Scientific Mission by Ernest Chantre (1881).
2. The ethnographic map of the Caucasus, based partly on the researches of Ernest Chantre (1887).

Ernest Chantre (1843-1924) was a prominent French archaeologist and anthropologist.

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The Electric Fluid, Wonder of the Age - 1843 the world's first public service opened, a telegraph line between Paddington in London and Slough . Cooke and Wheatstone, founders, try to explain the phenomenon. https://t.co/p8LF98IJlT

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"Miss [Sarah Ann] Drake was permitted to prepare the following plate."

James Bateman. 1843. Orchidaceae of Mexico & Guatemala.

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Paisaje con castillo - Andreas Leonhard Roller - 1843

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NEMESIS Goddess of vengeance & retribution, is a 'dispenser of dues', a sombre, winged maiden with a whip, sword or scales, with one foot on a wheel of fortune. She is the leveller who will effect equilibrium by punishing wrongdoers
Tattaresc 1843; Rethel 1837

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Happy Friday all!
Did you know that on 5th April 1843
Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong a British crown colony?
I wonder what Queen Victoria from Code: Realize thinks about this?

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Pedro Américo (1843-1905) was a Brazilian artist, novelist, poet, scientist, philosopher, politician, professor & other things. Here's some of his amazing paintings.

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"1843년, 미국 여성 낸시 존슨이 최초의 아이스크림 제조기를 개발했다. 이것을 사용하면 누구나 쉽게 아이스크림을 만들 수 있었다. 손님들은 '페니 릭'(사진)이라는 유리잔에 놓인 아이스크림을 다 핥은 뒤 노점 주인에게 돌려줬다. 사용한 다음 세척을 했는지는 알 수 없다."_책 <디저트의 모험>

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30/03/1843 nació VICENT pintor neerlandés, uno de
los principales exponentes del postimpresionismo

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Moonlight (1819) by Washington Allston (USA, 1779-1843). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

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"The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala" ([1837]-1843) is the largest botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates. It was beautifully illustrated chiefly by Sarah Anne Drake & Augusta Withers. In via ➡️ https://t.co/nP8O90Nqmf

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Pieter Hendrik Koekkoek. (1843-1927)
Travelers on a forest path, 1869.
Oil on panel 28.6 x 40.3 cm.
Private collection.

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📚✨ A book has to be a true beast to be called "The Librarian's Nightmare," and that's just what James Bateman’s 'The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala' (1843) was known as. It's easily the largest book in our collection, a treasure from the for

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