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Happy birthday, Kate Greenaway (1846 –1901). English children's book illustrator & writer. #artist #illustration #drawing #art #OTD
(承前)せっかくだから、ケイト・グリーナウェイの「月の絵」も挙げておこう。芳年とは、ほぼ同時代人である。 #OTD 画像は『OLD YEAR』1883。構図が、芳年と似てなくもない。
OTD 1801: HMS Invincible (74), Cptn. John Rennie, wrecked on Hasborough Sands, near Yarmouth.
Beware the Ides of March! Caesar was assassinated #otd in 44BC. Here he is in happier times, as imagined by the Britannia Antique Illustrata
The White Gold from Dresden - Johann Böttger, b. #OTD 1719, Alchemy and the Discovery of European Porcelain https://t.co/rKlzRMs5x6
#OTD in 1876 patent granted to A. G. Bell for the telephone - wonder if it was more sophisticated than this? Image: https://t.co/63FwILBbLc
March 6, 1475: Italian painter, sculptor and architect Michelangelo was born in Caprese, Tuscany. #OTD
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Tiepolo was born #otd in 1696. This drawing from our collection was a study forthe ceiling fresco he painted for the Palazzo Labia in Venice
Favourite Raeburns @NatGalleriesSco & BowhillHouse.
#SirHenryRaeburn b.1756 #OTD
One of my favorite Voyager 1 images: Europa & its shadow on Jupiter, taken #otd, 1979. https://t.co/F1ryEc0P2J
George Bizet's Carmen first performed March 3rd 1875 #onthisday #otd #operacomique #bizet #carmen #toreador #habanera #seville #donjose #...
1972: #OTD, an Atlas-Centaur TE364-4 vector propelled #Pioneer10 towards the first ever #Jupiter encounter. Now it's the farthest probe.
"He sought the gloomiest shades as best suited to the pleasing melancholy..."
―Horace Walpole, died #OTD 1797 #Gothic #WorldBookDay
#OTD 2 March 1881 #SalvationArmy Bristol Bedminster Corps opened - a few historic photographs showing the citadel, band and Salvationists
OTD 1806: HMS Hydra (38), Cptn. George Mundy, captured French national brig Le Furet (18), Lt. Demay, off Cadiz