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Col. Anderson & Fanny Keatinge hanging out inside the Somnath Temple, Gujarat, Jan 4 1857. Looks like it was a little chilly that day. In an album of watercolours by John Frederick Lester @britishlibrary WD3549, f.12.
24 October 1857. Sheffield Football Club, recognised by FIFA as the world’s first official football club, was founded by a group of ex-Cambridge students. The club is now based in Dronfield, Derbyshire and competes in the Northern Premier League Division One South East.
Juan Luna was born #OnThisDay in 1857. He was a #Filipino #painter & #sculptor, and one of the first Filipino #artists to be recognized. Luna mostly painted literary & historical scenes.
Photo courtesy of @Wikipedia, "The Death of Cleopatra" by Juan Luna, 1881.
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We're sharing some autumn colour today, as the early Cyclamen begin to flower in gardens.
This plate comes from 'The illustrated bouquet, consisting of figures with descriptions of new flowers, by E. G. Henderson & Son', painted by Mrs Withers around 1857. #autumncolours
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18 poems of 'Les Fleurs du mal' ('The Flowers of Evil') by Charles Baudelaire were first published #OTD in 1855. More poems were added in 1857. Baudelaire dedicated the book to the poet Théophile Gautier, describing him as 'a perfect magician of French letters'.
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shows how art is a constant reminder of the beauty of our climate, and how we must act to protect it.
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Utagawa Hiroshige, ‘Snow Triptych', 1857.
Mentioned in the book WHITE PEOPLE, INDIANS AND HIGHLANDERS
In both paintings, the dispossessed have been pushed to the western coasts of their land, indicating the end of their way of life.
Last of the Clan ~ Thomas Faed 1865.
Last of Their Race ~ John Mix Stanely 1857.
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Stuttgart, Krais & Hoffmann, 1857.
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This destitute child was photographed by Oscar Gustav Rejlander around 1857. Simply entitled "Homeless" (and alternatively sub-titled "A Night on the Streets of London") it is a powerful image of poverty and despondency. 💔
Picturing a Voice, 1857. Margaret Watts-Hughes and the Eidophone. Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts-Hughes.
Né le #11octobre 1803, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek est un peintre paysagiste néerlandais. #art #painting #ArtLovers
Winter Landscape, 1856. Forest Landscape, 1857.
Ruskin received many requests for drawing lessons and advice. In response to this, he wrote 'The Elements of Drawing' which was published in 1857. 🎨✏️ #Art #Drawing #RuskinFacts #Ruskin200
Siege of Cawnpore was key episode in Indian rebellion of 1857. besieged Company forces & civilians in Kanpur were unprepared for an extended siege & surrendered to rebel forces under Nana Sahib, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad.
pic is one sided view of Massacre ghat
J.A.FITZGERALD'S DREAM PAINTINGS depict humans plagued by hideous fairyland creatures; thought to represent the effects of opium. 1. The artist has fallen asleep, on his easel is a painting of a fairy, the model looks on at him 1857. 2. 1858 3. Pipe Dreams 1870 #GothicFairies