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Happy birthday Cervantes, author of one of the most frequently illustrated books of all time — #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating the tale have reflected and impacted its reading through the centuries: https://t.co/LdPjxQXuTI #otd
#OTD in 1889 – Birth of painter, Seán Keating (born John Keating), in Limerick. https://t.co/wvqnGuN2yr
Ultimates 3 #5 by Jeph Loeb and @JoeMadx. Published 10 years ago today. #Ultimates #OTD #CaptainAmerica #Avengers
#OTD 1561 in Tower of London, Lady Katherine Grey bore 1st son, Edward Seymour, later Viscount Beauchamp. Lady Katherine had been in Tower since early August when her secret marriage to Earl of Hertford was revealed to Elizabeth I, who was beyond furious. https://t.co/LbJ3cncn1V
F. Scott Fitzgerald, chronicler of the Jazz Age, was born #OTD in 1896. The jazz age is one of our specialist subjects here at the archive - we even represent the 3500-strong Jazz Age Club image collection. Click here to browse a selection https://t.co/BfUU6CLriQ
#OTD 1930, Private Lives, written & starring Noel Coward w/ Gertrude Lawrence, opened at Phoenix Theatre.Sets designed by Coward's collaborator, Gladys Calthrop - caricature of Lawrence by Autori in Tatler that yr, photo of Coward & Calthrop from 1937. Programme from 1980 revival
#otd Happy Birthday #gustavholst 1874 #theplanets #mars #theplanetssuite #composer #illustration #rosiebrooks
#otd Happy Birthday #gustavholst 1874 #theplanets #mars #theplanetssuite #composer #illustration #rosiebrooks
Sir Allen Lane was born #otd in 1902. Together with his brothers Richard and John Lane, he co-founded @PenguinUKBooks in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
OTD 1745 Jacobites routed government forces at Prestonpans, after using a night march to get within striking distance. Same tactic was to fail badly at Culloden. Impressions of the march & battle by the much missed Andrew Hillhouse, one our finest painters of historic battles.
"The Three Gables" 1st published #OTD 1926 in Liberty Magazine. https://t.co/YkWIqCXxOS
The anniversary of the birth of Richard "Dickie" Doyle, fairyland artist, #OTD 1824 gives us the excuse to share this amazing copy of his Princess Nobody in it's original 1884 dustjacket #nineteenthcenturydustwrappers #DickieDoyle #Fairies #illustration https://t.co/PERza84gzG
It is only by eternal vigilance that a denizen of the jungle survives the constant threat of the greatest of all killers—man.
TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY, Ch. 1
#ERB, Inc. published the first edition #OTD in 1938, featuring John Coleman Burroughs art: https://t.co/fPvBcvJ0yr
Evidently it was an immemorial custom that girls should wed to escape their families.
BACK TO THE STONE AGE, Ch. 15
#ERB, Inc. published the first edition of this novel #OTD in 1927, featuring John Coleman Burroughs dust-jacket art: https://t.co/e5TkQ3YsI2.
During the long hundred years of his life, Tantor had known man….The white men had been the last to come and were the worst.
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE, Ch. 1 #ERB
McClurg published the first edition of the novel #OTD in 1927, St. John dust-jacket art: https://t.co/IYx3nv4xkp.
#FossilFriday Alexander von #Humboldt, born #OTD in 1769, and the Hand-Beast https://t.co/jhYKEnHALb
French painter Nicolas Lancret died #OnThisDay in 1743
These Chinese dinner plates, c. 1750, are decorated after Lancret’s work ‘Les Oies de Frere Philippe’
The original is housed in the Metroplitan Museum, New York
Plates courtesy of Cohen & Cohen https://t.co/KEcBWPFfxc #OTD
#OTD 1804 #ornithologist & #artist John Gould FRS was born. 🐦View our collection from "The Father of Ornithology" on The Print Gallery website: https://t.co/51cks8mIec #birdman
#OTD in 1717, in response to the Atlantic pirate threat, and in an effort to stop the rise of pirates, The Gazette was one of the first newspapers to publish the full text of the Proclamation of the Suppression of Piracy: https://t.co/io3J03EbPT