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Glasgow-born Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born #otd in 1868🎂🎉 . Although best known as an architect and designer, Mackintosh also produced a large number of drawings and watercolours, including this, The Road Through the Rocks, Port Vendres: https://t.co/6pFWa1Bv7h
George III born #otd in 1738.Some of @rhslibraries George III-related special collection items include his wife's signature from 1816. The work is decorated with Strelitzia (#birdofparadise), a genus named after Queen Charlotte's birthplace, the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Born #OTD in 1879, Mabel Lucie Attwell, popular and prolific artist best-known and well-loved for her illustrations of chubby-cheeked children and fairyland
Helen Stratton died #OTD 1961. These illustrations are from The Lily of Life: A Fairy Tale, by Marie of Romania.
Beasts of Prey
The Stag
The Frozen Lake
The Tombs
#Art #ArtHistory #FairyTales #Fantasy
#OTD in 1879, Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial of France, is ambushed and killed by Zulus while serving with the British. His needless death occurred when the impetuous prince took command of a scouting party without official permission. His body suffered 18 assegai wounds.
Dutch artist Cornelis Saftleven may have died #OTD 1681.
Witch's Tavern
Gates of Hell
Temptation of St. Anthony (detail)
College of Animals
#Art #ArtHistory #Witches
Some images of the illustrious Joan of Arc, who was martyred #OTD in 1431.
"Jehanne was gentle in the roughest struggle, good amongst the bad, pacific in war itself; she bore into war...the spirit of God." - Jules Michelet
Art by: T.A. Dean, G. Pownall, and H. Piffard.
Born #OTD in 1900, artist Rudolph Belarski painted "Argosy Weekly" pulp covers for three of #ERB's most famous series: #CarsonOfVenus, #Tarzan, and #JohnCarter
January 8, 1938: "Carson of Venus"
March 19, 1938: "The Red Star of Tarzan"
January 7, 1939: "Synthetic Men of Mars"
26 May 1650: Oliver Cromwell leaves #Youghal Co. #Cork for #England #otd ( @MuseumCromwell ) there he goes...
#OTD in 1660, Britain is about to get a whole lot merrier when King Charles II arrives in Dover to claim the throne. Coincidentally, he gets married #OTD too a year later, to the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza #merrymonarch #royalhistory
Carl Linnaeus was born #otd in 1707. Have you seen our Linnean Correspondence collection? https://t.co/hVGANf40XU We have digitised letters sent & received by the great man himself. To also celebrate #WorldTurtleDay, we have found this letter sent to him by Thomas Pennant.
Left wing of a blue roller, studied in 1512 by the great Albrecht Dürer. You would not believe that watercolor & gouache could capture this much detail! Dürer was born OTD in 1471.
#OTD 21.5.1358: In Compiègne beginnt der #Jacquerie genannte Bauernaufstand im Nordosten Frankreichs https://t.co/Pv7t4ZhGYP
Henri Edmond Cross
* 20.5.1856; † 16.5.1910
Boats, Venice
#OTD #ArteYArt
@Spiros209 @CerisesMacaron @dianadep1 @Clanlupi @Sashainua @ele9061
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Starring Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald & Michael Ironside
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Released 20 May 1983
#scifi #adventure #3D #OTD
#OTD May 20, 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.
The 3 oldest structures in the PDB are date stamped as released #OTD in 1976! They've been in the archive for 42 years
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Vincent du Vigneaud, born #OTD in 1901 worked on many biological molecules, and won the 1955 @NobelPrize for synthesis of hormones including oxytocin.
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