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For #NationalFishingMonth we’d be rather surprised if we caught one of these! Artist & colour merchant John Harrison Scott, whose family resided at Hersham Lodge nr #Esher, painted these beautiful watercolours of exotic fish in a scrapbook compiled c.1820s-1840s (SHC ref 4220/1)
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.
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’
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!!
#OC #artwork #myart #originalcharacter
The Good Argument, Honoré-Victorin Daumier, 1840s https://t.co/odDO8HJ7z9 #honorévictorindaumier #harvardartmuseums
These beautiful watercolours of exotic #fish 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 #ExploreYourArchive
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)
Today's #StudySunday is just drawing pretty Victorian ladies from 1840s/50s daguerreotype portraits 🎨
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)
#kuniyoshi #ukiyoe
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)
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born #onthisday 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.
Today for the #Archive30 theme of #Environment we bring you an 1840s image of dragonflies from the wonderful series The Naturalist's Library by Sir William Jardine.
@micheladlondon 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:
@olonion Siguiente commission de @olonion 😉
Jane Eyre. 1840s.
#commissions #digitalart #digitalpainting #janeeyre
Parents woken by their Baby (1838), Workmen on the Street (1838-40), A Nasty Cold in the Head (1839) & the Beautiful Narcissus (c1840s). I love the timelessness of his sleep deprived parents & the ludicrous figure of Narcissus.
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)
Today, some views of Church Street in Cromer... Rev William Sharpe in the 1850s; the 'Narrows' in the 1840s; 1885; 1890,
In episode 18, Nephrite's yōma is called Jumeau. This is a reference to Jumeau, the French bisque doll company that started in the early 1840s. #SailorMoon #SailorMoonTrivia
More of a force than a mythological creature, in Irish mythology, hungry grass/féar gortach is a patch of cursed grass! Also known as fairy grass, anyone walking on it is doomed to perpetual & insatiable hunger! Not known if this dates to 1840s famine or older! #FolkloreThursday