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Boating Party with Children Swimming, Kitagawa Utamaro (ca. 1754–1806)
Mythological and legendary creatures from Friedrich Justin Bertuch’s BILDERBUCH FÜR KINDER (Picture Book for Children). 1806.
Terrifying and wonderful images by Louis Boulanger (1806-1867) from "Fantômes" - by Victor Hugo (1829)
#onthisday in 1806 Aberdeen Artist William Dyce was born
Beatrice, 1859 by William Dyce will hang in Gallery 18 of the newly refurbished Art Gallery, reopening 2 November!
Find out more:
https://t.co/2sTSVTLN5L
In honour of the anniversary of the death of Charles James Fox, #OTD 1806, another chance to read @latelordchatham's blog on the 1788 #Westminster election:
https://t.co/q6EYOJBT8k
#Parliament #HistParl
When it was built in 1806, the Brighton Dome roof was constructed of thousands of panes of glass. At the time it was the second largest dome shaped building in the country, after @StPaulsLondon. Find out more about the history & heritage of Brighton Dome: https://t.co/3rRlodU02i
Hello Spring! We hope you enjoy this beautiful wattle sketch (c 1803-1806) by John William Lewin. The talented painter and naturalist carved out a career from humble insect collector to Australia's first professional artist. #WattleDay
https://t.co/kcgO3bJTop
August 22, 1806: French painter/printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard dies.
Fragonard's "Coresus and Callirhoë" (1765) was exhibited at the Salon in Paris, where it was subsequently purchased for King Louis XV.
🎨 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, "Coresus and Callirhoë", 1765
Incarnant la liberté et la curiosité des Lumières françaises, Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 22 août 1806) a développé une manière exubérante et fluide en tant que peintre, dessinateur et graveur. D'abord très apprécié, il fut ensuite délaissé et considéré comme désuet. #Peinture
#22août 1806
Décès de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, peintre français (né le #5avril 1732).
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#Grasse #Fragonard #JeanHonoréFragonard #Peinture #Art #Éphéméride #Artiste #Paris #Arts #Libertinage #Histoire #PAysages
"Great Mysticete" (Baleen whale), 1809 copper engraved print. Zoological Lectures at the Royal Institution in the Years 1806 and 1807 by George Shaw.
Missed @Riverflies monitoring again 😞but @I_HWSylph went & said it was very successful 😊 Lots of invertebrates, more cased caddis than usual & bullhead fish in each sample. So celebrating with bullhead from Donovan's 'Nat. Hist. of British Fishes' Vol. 4, 1806. @FriendsRivCrane
French propaganda: Napoleon liberating the Jews, 1806. #art #propaganda #history
"Au temps radieux
le bleu mauve de mon âme
autour de ton corps"
Matsuo Bashō (1644 - 1694)
🎨Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 - 1806)
Mathematician Augustus de Morgan was born #OnThisDay in 1806
Catch the Sublime Symmetry tour at the @Russell_Cotes Museum in Bournemouth and see how mathematics inspired the ceramic designs of Augustus's son William https://t.co/gI6spnv12b
Great image of an officer of the 9th Light Dragoons, circa 1806, from a watercolour by Denis Dighton (1792-1827).
Gourmandises de ce matin : les tableaux de chiens de George Stubbs (1724-1806)