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#FairyTaleTuesday "Hansel and Gretel" is a German fairy tale recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch living in a house made of gingerbread, cake, candy, and many other pastries.They escape by outwitting her.
Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of a family, 1795-1800
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Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Caroline Henriette von Baumbach-Freudenthal (1741-1809), ca. 1785
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Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Cornelia Rijdenius (1746-1826), 1790-5
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Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Amalie Wolff-Malcolmi (1780-1851), 1798-1805
#LeipzigerTischbein #GermanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Jaques Ferdinand Dufour-Feronce with his daughter Constance Aimée, 1802
#LeipzigerTischbein #GermanArt #ChildrenInArt
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Prince Florimund finds the "Sleeping Beauty"
The Brothers Grimm included a variant of Sleeping Beauty, Little Briar Rose, in their collection (1812)
Lewis Armistead was born #OTD in 1817 in @CityofNewBern, NC, into a distinguished military family. His father and 4 uncles served during the War of 1812. His uncle George Armistead commanded @FtMcHenryNPS during the battle that led to the writing of The Star Spangled Banner.
Born #OnThisDay in 1812: English writer #CharlesDickens (1812-70)
Portrait drawing by Samuel Laurence (1812-84), 1838
#Dickens #EnglishLiterature #Victorian
Charles Dickens was born #OnThisDay in 1812 in Portsmouth.
Did you know that he hated sitting for photographs and portraits? Accounts from people who knew him can’t even agree on the colour of his eyes.
#OTD #history #literature
In painting the Madhouse there is a real sense that Goya worried that this might be where he would end up. The Young Ones (1812-14), Mariano Goya (his grandson, 1812-4), Duke of Wellington (1812) & The Madhouse (1812-4)
#Conchology: The study of mollusk shells. 🐚🐚🐚🐚
Explore beautiful shell #SciArt in "A Conchological Manual" (1839), authored and illustrated by George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812-1884). #OpenAccess in #BHLib thanks to @mayrlibrary ➡️ https://t.co/Nu5RqxVORQ
S7-F36 Napoleon at Borodino, 1812 from the #andreaminiatures NAPOLEONIC WARS series in 54mm 1:32 scale https://t.co/jyllXJoHOS #miniaturemonday #andreacolor #napoleonic #art #hobby #scalemodel #miniatures #miniaturepainting
Joseph Paelinck (1781-1839)
Self-portrait, c.1812.
#Dandy #BelgianArt #Portrait