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This day 172 years ago – 7 March 1848 – the Irish tricolour is said to have been flown in public for the first time.
Thomas Francis Meagher flew it in Waterford during a by-election. It was given to him and fellow Young Irelander William Smith O'Brien by French republican women.
🍎 The Florist.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1848.
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Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), Homme en Blouse 1884
(Le père Magloire sur le Chemin de Saint-Clair à Étretat)
🌻 Flore universelle
Saint-Denis: Au Bureau et chez Meilhac: [1848]-[1849]
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Sir Winston Churchill, O.M, R.A (1874-1965).
The Terrace at Mrs Alice Keppel's (1848-1947) Villa d'Ombrellino, nr.Florence, c. 1930-35.
Alice was the longterm mistress of Edward VII &great Granny to Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
Private collection.
#EnglishArt #Landscape
🌻 Flore universelle
Saint-Denis: Au Bureau et chez Meilhac: [1848]-[1849]
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騎兵本、おおよそ行き渡ったかなという感じのようなので、時間的にもページ数的にも余裕がなくて本の方では文章説明投げっぱなしジャーマン状態だったけども本当は個人的に滅茶苦茶描きたかった1848年の市民衛兵さんの図を投稿しておきます。
"Mr Tenniel has been here today and will go to work on the frontispiece (for the Haunted Man - below). We must arrange for a dinner here, very shortly, when you and he may meet." Letter to John Leech 30/10/1848 https://t.co/m5JDobkHGH
Morning, happy Friday !
Weekend round the corner
A selection of the brighter emission Nebulae
IC 405, IC1848, NGC2264 and NGC1396
🌊 The Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F.R.A.S., F.G.S., during the years 1843-1846 /.
London: Reeve and Benham, 1850 [i.e. 1848-1850].
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2/2 Family on the barricades, ready to stand strong in 1848, and painted by Daumier.
Gustave Caillebotte, né à Paris le 19 août 1848 et mort à Gennevilliers le 21 février 1894. @dfweb75
One of the worst actors in history, died #OnThisDay 21Feb1848. He was Robert “Romeo” Coates, a very bad #Regency actor and an eccentric man. https://t.co/YvPwV46XjB #19thcentury
Feb. 21, 1848: The Communist League publishes The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
The Communist Manifesto was first published February 21, 1848.
Men-of-war And Other Shipping Off Portsmouth Harbour by John Wilson Carmichael, oil on canvas 1848.
.@rocafarga #art #arte #OTD Adolph Von Menzel - The Round Table of Frederick II 1848 - Upturned Kettle 1856