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The poet Ono no Komachi ().).), from the Heian period (794-1185).
Japanese engraving of around 1840, by unknown author.
Via Libri Usati e Antichi
Il #4agosto 1849 muore Anita Garibaldi. Nel dipinto esposto al #CompendioGaribaldino è raffigurata in fuga dalle truppe imperiali brasiliane, mentre #Garibaldi è assente, nei pressi di Mustardas, Rio Grande do Sul, nel 1840, con il piccolo Menotti. Anita non conobbe #Caprera.
by Caspar David Friedrich - (b. 1774, Greifswald, d. 1840, Dresden)
Drifting Clouds 1820
media Oil on canvas,
dimensions 18,3 x 24,5 cm
location Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Birthday in the park: Pierre Joseph Redoute, 1759-1840, painter and botanist.........https://t.co/F4GMe6Waf7
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (July 10, 1759 - June 19, 1840, Belgian) #painting #artlovers #art #fineart #artflowers
Rosa Centifolia. Apricot-Peach. Camellias, Narcissus and Pansies (1827)
#OnThisDay in 1840, Dickens was hard at work on The Old Curiosity Shop: "I [...] have been obliged on sunny mornings to put a strong and resolute constraint upon myself, and to keep the shadow of my Giant Work perpetually before me." https://t.co/HwmwWitrDY #OTD #literature
Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Lagoon near Venice, at Sunset, 1840, watercolour on paper, 244 x 304 mm
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via A la belle E-toile
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Strand met schepen bij #Scheveningen (detail), 1840, Andreas Schelfhout
#art #kunst
Caspar David Friedrich (Sept 5, 1774-May 7, 1840, German)
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818. The Stages of Life, 1834. Abbey, 1810. #landscape #painting #art #artlovers
Best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or megalithic ruins, Caspar David Friedrich died in obscurity #OTD 1840, his work having fallen from favour.
Death watches over #London in the spring of 1840, willing to accept members on trivial grounds, such as ear-ache and gout - but expecting plenty of admissions via suicide and disease
art for my dear friend wynfred :> his work is on instagram @ wynfred1840, please please go see it
Hiroshige (I) , Utagawa (Japan 1797 - 1858), Five trout against a light blue background on which there is a poem about the trout in the Tama River 1830 - 1840, paper , mica . Rijksmuseum
Via Stephen Ellcock
by Friedrich Caspar David
(b. 1774, Greifswald, d. 1840, Dresden)On the Sailing Boat 1819
media Oil on canvas,
dimensions 71 x 56 cm
Location The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Birds of the park, and elsewhere: Avium species novae quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis, by JB von Spix, 1840, from BHL SciELO.........https://t.co/NWvAif9qMh
A day late for #outofthisworld #wednesdaychallenge but I'm excited to do some printing in outer space! From Samuel M'Cullough's 1840, 8 sheet #map of the visible heavens. #harvardlibrary
Claude #Monet was born on 14th November 1840, in #Paris. He began his #waterlilies series in 1899, based on his own #garden in #Giverny. #artist’s #birthday #arte #art #Impressionist #ThursdayThoughts
Rescue of the Besieged Natives of the Ngatitama Tribes of Waitangi, Chatham Islands, by the boats of the Cuba, June 8th 1840, Charles Heaphy, @aucklandmuseum https://t.co/x4p0gLOxEp #wikidata #digitalart #drawing (Palette: #LollyRocket) 🖌🎨