Mary Wollstonecraft y Mary Shelley. De tal palo, tal astilla.

(c.1797)
(c.1840)
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Schamyl [Shamil, 3rd Imam of (1797–1871).

Image taken from page 198 of 'A journey from London to Persepolis; including wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia ... With numerous coloured illustrations' by John Ussher. (London, 1865).

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Writing about mourning is so emotionally draining. This was Ann Frankland Lewis' watercolour for 1797, the year her husband died. Ann had lost her elder daughter only four years previously, and would go on to lose her younger daughter (possibly depicted) in 1810.

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It's James Sowerby's "Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms" (1797-1809), with 440 hand-colored engraved plates after Sowerby, has been called "one of the finest works on mushrooms and fungi". Find it in thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/cqsKhInmF9

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(Two views, close-up)
Iskandar (Sikandar) meets the Archangel Israfil while Khizr prays at the Water of Life
Folio from a copy of Firdausi's Shahnama (completed 8 March 1010),
made for
Nawab Sa'adat 'Ali Khan (r. 1798-1814) of Awadh

c.1797-99
https://t.co/8G9LdcTalo

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"Joyas y baratijas"
Pierre Charles Comte (francés, 1823-1895) asistió al taller de París de Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury (francés, 1797-1890). Si bien es un adepto a las grandes escenas de historización alentadas por sus maestros y luego tan populares y prevalecientes en Francia.

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The gorgeous, vigorous contrasts of Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797)

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Hibiscus 🌺
Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese artist, 1797 - 1858)

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+ The Persian yellow rose (Rosa foetida) is native to the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. by Sydenham Teast Edwards for "The Botanical Magazine", v. 11 (1797), in via ➡️ https://t.co/woVvQZpvzk 🌹

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Étienne-Gaspard Robert was born 1763. He was instrumental in developing what was to become Phantasmagoria. 1st image is from his Phantasmagoria at Cour des Capucines (1797); 2nd is an interpretation of his from F. Marion’s L’Optique (1867).

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Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) A Lake by Moonlight (1780-1782).

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Please say hello to Thomas Watling's Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) [between 1792 & 1797].

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1797人目
サドコング…サドラとタッコング。合体させても地味なんだが

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My take on Hairdresser (Kami-yui), 1797-98, a print by Kitagawa Utamaro, from the series Twelve types of women's handicraft (Fujin Tewaza Juniko) 💕💇

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Thomas & William Daniell's 'Oriental Scenery'1797
c.British Library
this stone pavilion was built by Tirumala Nayakar on east side of Madurai Fort was used during religious festivals, did they learnt in India about such open spaces, verandah etc due to tropical weather

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こればかりはどうしようもないことで、今日話していいか悩むんだけど1797年前から決まっていることなんですよ。
ローマ帝国第23代皇帝ヘリオガバルスの命日です。

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Lovely satire of Charles James Fox and Prime Minister 4th March 1797 - Fox is seen as he devil behind a recently failed French invasion force, but (calling to mind the fate of the Spanish Armada) declares that Britain will not be taken

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Koganei hashi sekisho (Evening glow at Koganei bridge)
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858)

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