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Katsushika Hokusai died in1849. ‘Sekiya Village on the Sumida River’ is from our amazing collection of Hokusai prints that also includes the iconic ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ and ‘Red Fuji’

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2021-05-10

全部葛飾北斎。
1849年の今日5月10日、浮世絵師・葛飾北斎が死去

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2021-05-10

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Chartly and Jola; verso: Sketch, c. 1849-51 https://t.co/Ul9N2dvCMV

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2021-05-08

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Fidelis in the Arbor; verso: Sketches, c. 1849-51 https://t.co/RmTl4M5jyx

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2021-05-08

Born in 1766: Swiss painter (1766-1849)

Portrait of Anne-Francoise Moulinié (1801-57), Madame Rodolphe Töpffer, ca. 1821

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2021-05-05

Born in 1766: Swiss painter (1766-1849)

Portrait of Elizabeth Brinckman (1801-89), 1818

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2021-05-05

𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦-𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘪𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘦, 1849-1918

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2021-05-05

Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May (1909) by J. W. Waterhouse (GB, 1849-1917). The painting was lost for nearly a century. A Canadian couple bought a run down farmhouse and it was on the wall. They left it undisturbed for 30 years before taking it to an art dealer.

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2021-05-04

Bridges by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

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2021-05-04

John William Waterhouse. 1849-1917.
A Mermaid, 1900.

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2021-05-01

This Bolbophyllum is from W J Hooker's A Century of Orchidaceous Plants (1849). In writes how the dark delicate hairs are thought to lure the dipteran pollinators of these tiny flowers by imitating a fly mating swarm

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2021-04-30

Cranes by the Shore, illustration for The Leg Shell (Ashigai), by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

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2021-04-30

Seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 – 1900)

Stormy Sea at Night (1849)
The Wrath Of The Seas (1886)
Tempest by Sounion (1856)
The Ninth Wave (1850)

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2021-04-29

Echo and Narcissus (1903) by John William Waterhouse (English, 1849–1917). Walker Art Gallery. Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection and rejected Echo. She wasted away until all that was left was a whisper.

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2021-04-29

※ Left: Details from a sketch and an illustration by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876)
※ Right: Details from John Everett Millais' "Christ in the House of His Parents" (1849)

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2021-04-29

İllüstratör, kadın hakları savunucusu Elizabeth Twining’in botanik çizimi, 1849

(Ailesi Twining Çay Şirketi’nin sahibi)

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2021-04-28

Sangi no Takamura, from The Hundred poems of a hundred poets, by Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849)

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2021-04-27