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J.J. Grandville ~ Un Autre Monde: transformations, visions, incarnations
(Full book, 1844)
Grandville was a caricaturist later recognized as a precursor of Surrealism.
Un Autre Monde describes a parallel world created by three sleazy demiurges.
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It's our 7th #MyTwitterAnniversary You can't see it but trust me we are blowing our party blowers like billio, just like this Sarah Stone (1760-1844) chameleon. OK so we know it's a tongue, but we are too delirious to care! Thank you to all our followers! Lots more to come!
Saturday 24 August 1844: At this stage Dickens hoped Stanfield might illustrate his book; "the approach to Genoa, by sea from Marseilles, constitutes a Picture which you ought to paint; for nobody else can do it!"
(Picture: Stanfield's 1846 work "Coast scene near Genoa")
Mary Edmonia Lewis (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907) was an American sculptor Her work is known for incorporating themes relating to black people and indigenous peoples of the Americas into Neoclassical-style #sculpture. #womeninarthistory
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Wednesday 7 August 1844: "There is a delicious air here - almost always a sea breeze - and very good bathing. The house is bare of furniture, but especially clean. The Sala is very large, and the bedrooms excellent."
The 1844 uprising of the Silesian Weavers has been the subject of poems, songs, paintings, sketchings, and film.
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Learn more in Chapter 22 of the #podcast: “Industry on the Post-Napoleonic Continent” (available now)
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#history #laborhistory #industrialrevolution
The Concept of Anxiety, by Søren Kierkegaard
The Concept of Anxiety : A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin, is a philosophical work written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1844.....
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Portrait of Yuri Fyodorovich Samarin, 1844 #romanticism #tropinin
23 juillet 1844 : Naissance d’Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, peintre académique italien.
Corrodi reçu de nombreuses commandes de peintures d’histoire de la famille royale britannique. Il fut professeur à l’Académie de Saint-Luc. Il est mort à Rome le 30 janvier 1905.
Sunday 14 July 1844: "We left [Aix] towards evening, and took the road to Marseilles. A dusty road it was; the houses shut up close; and the vines powdered white. At nearly all the cottage doors, women were peeling and slicing onions into earthen bowls for supper."
🇸🇪🎨Per Ekström (1844-1935)
Solnedgång över havet (Sunset over the sea)
10 July 1844: Still, there's a brightside to Dickens' TripAdvisor review of Chalons - "You would probably like it better, however, than Lyons".
Statement from Lyons:
Last weekend of the Steam Summer Sale!
Visit 1920s Miami, a post-apocalyptic future, or an alternate 1844.
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📺女王ヴィクトリア2、7話:憧れのスコットランド📌女王Vとアルバートが乗馬で迷い民家で束の間の自由なひととき。バグパイプや踊りに現地の彩り。高地「ハイランダー」の自然が厳しくも壮観。実際に撮影の「ブレア城」も美しい。史実では女王Vが1844年に来訪したと。側近のゲイ関係模様も旅の陰影👀
Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844, by G.W. Fasel and Charles G. Crehen, 1851 #art