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Invented in 1772 & described by poet Robert Southey as “a wonder-working gas of delight”, laughing gas (nitrous oxide) was used as popular entertainment at parties ~ as here depicted by Thomas Rowlandson ~ until its use as a surgical anaesthetic was recognised in 1840s

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2020-10-03

Some parts of my reply to ask
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1-How Nastya dresses for the theater now and how she dressed in the 1840s(Kyiv became a city of theatres from the 1840s)
2-She searches theatres(Kyiv has got 50 theatres now)

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2020-09-07

Priest Sosei, No.21, from the 1840s series Hyakunin isshu esho (Pictures of one hundred poems by one hundred poets)

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2020-08-06

Just thinking about how, in the late 1840s, this aeronaut spent hours of his free time, sometimes whole days, wading in New York Bay at dawn, collecting seaweed specimens with which he illustrated this book.

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2020-08-05

For we’d be rather surprised if we caught one of these! Artist & colour merchant John Harrison Scott, whose family resided at Hersham Lodge nr painted these beautiful watercolours of exotic fish in a scrapbook compiled c.1820s-1840s (SHC ref 4220/1)

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2020-07-29

The name "daguerreotype" correctly refers only to one very specific image type and medium, the product of a process that was in wide use only from the early 1840s to the late 1850s.

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2020-07-23

The Westwood Room was originally called ‘Mr Hope’s Museum’ after Frederick William Hope, a founding collector of this Museum in the 1840s. Hope’s museum within a museum became a favourite meeting place for naturalists: Charles Darwin called Hope ‘my father in entomology’

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2020-06-26

May I...introduce a not so new character of mine...

His name is Edmond Steerforth and he's a very wealthy, but polite and kind-hearted man living in the early 1840s!!

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2020-06-11

These beautiful watercolours of exotic are by artist & colour merchant John Harrison Scott whose family resided at Hersham Lodge nr Esher. Just two of many illustrations from his scrapbook compiled c1820s-1840s (SHC ref 4220/1) https://t.co/aQ0h7w6Zul

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2020-05-20

England had been experiencing a religious revival in the 1840s. Rossetti was caught up in the fervour. St Catherine (1857), The Lady of Shallot (1857) & The Tune of Seven Towers (1857)

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2020-05-13

Today's is just drawing pretty Victorian ladies from 1840s/50s daguerreotype portraits 🎨

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2020-05-10

Uneme of Atsuta, holding a gohei, exorcising the monstrous serpent of the Ashihara Lake, which disappears into the clouds in a flash of lightning
from the early 1840s series Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety of Our Country (Honchô nijûshi-kô, 本朝廿四考)

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2020-05-10

Watts submitted a drawing for the Houses of Parliament & won a prize in 1843 & a bursary. This allowed him to travel to Italy. Lady Holland (c1843-4), The Golden Age (1840) & Fiesole, Tuscany (1840s)

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2020-05-04

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in 1775.

One of the greatest English painter's of his generation, his late works of the 1840s, like 'Flight into Egypt', are characterised by brilliant colour and free brushwork.

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2020-04-23

Today for the theme of we bring you an 1840s image of dragonflies from the wonderful series The Naturalist's Library by Sir William Jardine.

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2020-04-15

Yep, those are the two elements that are throwing me in this redesign because I need to settle on *one* decade first before I set about drafting a historically-accurate dress. The closest era I can put her design is the Romantic era (1815-1840s) before the large, puffy sleeves:

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2020-03-26