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Little oil study of Moss rose ‘William Lobb’ from @DAustinRoses . This rose dates back to 1855, has a strong fragrance and fades beautifully from deep magenta through to shades of purple. #rose #rosepainting #oilpainting #flowerpainting #art #cumbria #GoodFriday #garden
Beatrice, Meeting Dante at a Wedding Feast, Denies him her Salutation, 1855 #romanticism #rossetti
"Our dear Charlotte is no more - she died last night of exhaustion."
Charlotte Bronte died, while pregnant, aged 38 #otd 1855. A terrible loss to her husband, father and friends but her works of genius will never die. She was a brilliant writer & a kind, brilliant human being:
Mountain Landscape at Saint Thomas, Antilles (unfinished), 1855 #danishart #realism
Our #FeaturedTale this #FairytaleTuesday is "Hare and the Hedgehog" from Grimm's Household Tales, in which the hare insults the hedgehog's legs, they agree to race, and the hedgehog's wife helps him win "a golden louis-d'or and a bottle of brandy."
Illustration: Gustav Süs (1855)
John Constable, Willy Lott’s House, 1855 https://t.co/07oD5kwt4c #johnconstable #museumarchive
The hymns on Holy Monday also recall Joseph, the son of Jacob, whose innocent suffering at the hand of his brethren and false accusation are a type (foreshadowing) of the Passion of Christ.
Joseph sold into slavery by his brothers (Konstantin Flavitsky, 1855).
Empress Eugenie, Surrounded by her Ladies-in-Waiting, 1855 #neorococo #franzxaverwinterhalter
Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of #CharlotteBrontë (1816-1855), 1850
#TheAncients #EnglishArt
A Moroccan Saddling a Horse, 1855 https://t.co/7AHraUZerc #eugenedelacroix #orientalism
Wishing Happy #Passover2021 to all ourJewish followers and readers, and their families, knowing you'll all be together in spirit if not in person. This is #Rossetti's watercolour, "Passover in the Holy Family: Gathering Bitter Herbs," 1855-56. https://t.co/gZa8CE9syr
John Constable, View on the Orwell near Ipswich, 1855 https://t.co/02m9A1yWWD #museumarchive #tatemuseum
In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): https://t.co/OEtpMfAJtM
John Constable, View on the Orwell, near Ipswich, 1830-1855 https://t.co/CWiDg42dCS #minneapolisinstituteofart #johnconstable
The Supper after the Masked Ball – Thomas Couture, c. 1855.
(Art Institute of Chicago).
John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, near the Nore, 1830-1855 https://t.co/MvXsnVTLjY #artsmia #printsanddrawings
Women’s fashion was ornate above all else in 1855, with the crinoline reigning prominently in conjunction with brightly colored silks and satins. Read more at the link below!
https://t.co/1SqPe1YLpR
#fashionhistory #arthistory
🔸Ernesta, by Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942), an American society portraitist.
#StaySafeStayHealthy #WomensHistoryMonth
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