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Roald Amundsen — the Norwegian explorer who, with his team, became the first to reach the South Pole — was born #onthisday in 1872. See our highlights of the wonderful set of photos from the 1910–12 expedition: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz #OTD
I grew up in a land of Viking settlers, under Odin’s Crag, North Yorkshire. When the crag “wears a cap” (of cloud) folk warn of “a clap” which will herald a wild, raging storm.
🎨 My childhood skyline: ‘The Wild Hunt of Odin’, Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1872.
#WyrdWednesday
The Grand Canyon Of The Yellowstone by Thomas Moran, oil on canvas 1872.
Claude Monet - Regattas at Argenteuil, c. 1872. Oil on canvas, 48 x 75 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Not all Victorian photos are sombre and straight-laced - take these wonderful shots from 1872. They are tintypes of Walter Fawdon goofing around in various guises for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. They somehow bridge that 149-year chasm and make him very immediate 🤩
"Christ Leaving the Court" by French artist Gustave Dore, circa between 1867 & 1872. At the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
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Sir William Newzam Prior Nicholson was born on this day, February 5, in 1872.
Four year after his wife, Mabel, died from the 1918 Pandemic, he illustrated “The Velveteen Rabbit”.
🦎 Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British Museum /.
London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1855-1872.
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Böcklin was back in Munich by 1872. Self-Portrait (1872), Nymph on Pan’s Shoulders (1874), Vestalin (1874) & Idyll (1875). Nowadays we see the escapism of his work & it’s lack of imagination, but at the time such work was part of popular culture & yearning.
Lluís Masriera was a Catalan jewelry artist born #OnThisDay in 1872.
Google him, you gonna love his works.
2 January 1872. Brigham Young (aged 71), the second president of The Mormon Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) was arrested for bigamy. It was discovered he had 25 wives.
• "The Wild Hunt Of Odin" (Åsgårdsreien) by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1872.