Today in Comics History: E.W. Kemble, remembered chiefly as a book illustrator (Mark Twain hand-picked him to illustrate the first edition of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”) but who also prolifically worked as a political cartoonist, was born on January 18, 1861.

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Mase Magoshirô Masatatsu, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (c.1797-1861)

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Johan Kindborg (Sweden, 1861 - 1907)

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Somebody is very happy!

The Water Nymph was painted by the French artist François Martin-Kavel (1861–1931), who specialized in female portraits, ranging from regular portraits, to mythological women, to Oriental portraits.

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Gustave Doré - Paolo and Francesca in Hell, 1861

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Johan (John) Kindborg (Sweden, 1861-1907)

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Mina Fonda Ochtman - American Artist - (1861-1923)
The Evening Lamp
Watercolour

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Lucien Gaillard (1861 – 1942, both in Paris, France) was a French goldsmith and jeweller, who worked in the art nouveau style.

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Been reading lots of Victorian ghost stories lately 👻 Here’s a comic inspired by an 1861 short story called “Horror: A True Tale” (which i guess is less of a Victorian ghost story and more of a Victorian home invasion story)

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whole civil war goin on and i'm just one of those people picnicking off to the side
no it's not 1861

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. ___
:: Grapes, prunes, peaches
and a chessnut on a ledge ::
:: data: sorry.unknown ____

Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os 
___//1782 The Hague-1861 Paris

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József Rippl-Rónai (1861–1927) Sorrow (Woman by the Table, 😭 Woman) 1892.

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The Seceding Mississippi Delegation in Congress, Winslow Homer, 1861 https://t.co/yeajC3RC6I

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➤ En “Apolo persiguiendo a Daphne”, Carlo Maratta, 1861, , se percibe una tendencia que sitúa el foco en la protagonista perseguida y en la visualización de sus emociones, otorgando un giro al sentido primigenio del mito que castigaba a la mujer.
🧶 /FIN

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あけましておめでとうございます🎍

今日がお誕生日の歌川国芳(1798年1月1日~1861年4月14日)の金魚たち、こんな楽しそうなお屠蘇なら是非ともご相伴に与りたいです。

とにかく、どうか、去年よりよい年になりますように🙏

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On December 31, 1861 Włodzimierz Tetmajer, a Polish painter and graphic artist, one of the leading representatives of Young Poland was born in Harklowa

Sosnowiec Cathedral, Coronation of Blessed Virgin Mary

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John W Godward(1861-1922)English painter,@ end of the Neo-Classicist era. Protégé of L A-Tadema. Style of painting fell out of favor w/rise of modern art. Committed suicide @ 61, said 2 have written in his suicide note "the world is not big enough for [both] myself & a Picasso".

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Shipwreck off Nantucket (also known as Wreck off Nantucket, after a Storm) (1861)
by William Bradford
Style: Romanticism

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The discovery of this "first bird” from the Jurassic Period of Germany in 1861 ignited the idea that birds descended from dinosaurs. Paleontologists still debate the precise nature of Archaeopteryx's flight.

https://t.co/slgBc1rH8e

Illustration by Franz Anthony

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