Pierre-Charles Comte Lyon (1823-1895), Le Temps Chasse L'Amour (Time Chasing Love Away), oil on canvas

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CROSSROADS. English law stated that suicides should be buried in the highway before 1823. Eerie crossroads were chosen and the corpse was often staked. This ritual was to deter others & supports the belief that restless suicides could easily return as

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My body and my life will be used up before one single particle of my love disappears."
Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo, 1835

(Time chasing Love, 1823 ~

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German surgeon Friedrich von Esmarch (1823-1908) founded The Samaritan Society to provide first aid training and developed the ‘Esmarch bandage’ in 1873, used to help remove blood from limbs for surgery. His family crest has a Samaritan Cross and a bloodless arm to honour this!

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Edward Jenner, physician, scientist and 'father of immunology' (who did refine the discipline of vaccination) died 1823 < Holding Their Breath https://t.co/GtG1WtxiSl <

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Maybe some of these ladies know each other? Alfred Stevens(1823-1906)Belgian painter,known 4 paintings of elegant modern women. An immensely successful painter in the 1860s. Some examples of work during this time r La Dame en Rose or Woman in Pink. 1863: received Legion of Honor

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Pierre Charles Comte, 1823-1895 Le Temps chasse l'Amour

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New year, new merchandise!

We designed these t-shirts using an image from 's copy of 'A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body,' (1823) by John Lizars. They are available in kids and adults sizes!

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Francisco Goya. “Saturn devouring his son” (1823)

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Agree, So Good....here's more...Hugues Merle(1823–1881)French painter who mostly depicted sentimental or moral subjects. Compared w/W.Bouguereau. Became friend of Paul Durand-Ruel in early 1860s. Ruel began buying paintings by Merle in 1862 & introduced the artist 2 Bouguereau.

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1823 UR国木田花丸【スクユニ・国木田花丸】C 特技:パラメータアップ 限定BOXUR

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Researching radical play by Irishman James Knowles on Roman food rioting, CAIUS GRACCHUS, censored 1815-1823. Caius tried to redistribute land to Italian poor. Mike Leigh's PETERLOO shows the Georgian class struggle Knowles really meant https://t.co/8cj9rAY8aM

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Personified virtue was a common theme in & reused throughout modern & architectural history. The virtues often adorn canvases & buildings in the form of classical women.

Justice and Divine Vengeance pursuing Crime,1808, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823

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New to the : "Hortus Canalius" (1823), by Ignaz Friedrich Tausch, illustrating & describing a selection of the plants found at the botanical garden of Emanuel Joseph Malabaila von Canal. Explore the thanks to : https://t.co/dmfY17bGoo

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Justin Bieber eating a hot dog circa 2010 // Saturn eating his son by Francisco de Goya, 1823

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WILLIAM BRADFORD (1823 – 1892, American)
«The wreck of 'Nantucket' after a Storm», dated c. 1860

The 'Nantucket' was a whaling ship that ran aground during the night in 1859, off Nashawena Island.

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