Sir Rowland Hill's Uniform Penny Postage carried out today in 1840. A new postal system was born on 10 Jan.,1840.

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Chechen and Ingush, lithograph, 1835-1840.

Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche: Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures. Meissen, 1835-1840

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🦎 North American herpetology. v.3.
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.
https://t.co/9ZbeK7PoFm

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. ___
:: Winter Landscape with a Church ::
:: 1811 _______
:: oil on canvas
:: 33×45 cm
:: Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Collection

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich  
____// German painter.1774-1840.

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🐸 North American herpetology. v.1
Philadelphia: J. Dobson, 1836-1840.
https://t.co/bLk6jOv9uk

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Another interesting painting to serve as a writing prompt: "The Halted Mail Coach" by Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), c1840.

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Resources and the park: Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier, by Georges Cuvier et al, 3 vols, 1835-1840.........

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Action in the Mediterranean.
Drawing by Nicholas Tomlinson, ca.1840.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London (ID: PAD8914)

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River in Cloudy Moon light""",
1840.
Artist,,
Sebastian Pether.
(British,1790_1844)

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Happy birthday, Claude Monet, born on this day in 1840. A key figure in the Impressionist movement, his desire to capture the ephemeral atmospheric effects outdoors exemplifies the goals of the Impressionists. His quick, dappled brushwork was a standard for the Impressionists.

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First page of 1840,
&
Scrapped second page of 1840.
2021

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Peder Balke was born in Helgøya in 1804 and died in Oslo in 1887. This is 'North Cape' from 1840. Oil on canvas.

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Giuseppe Canella - Coastal Landscape with Moon Rising -1840.

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William Hazledine, an English died in 1840. Hazledine collaborated with Thomas Telford to construct some of Britain's greatest bridges. Learn more about Hazledine in his profile: https://t.co/s7azFtuYQ0

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Klara Marie Von Himmel, Thranish 2nd Demi-human Auxiliary "Clearwater" Cadet Corp circa 1840.

Birthday gift for for whom the character belongs to.

Art by

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Pauvacaw and Coondoomunny. Company School. Madras, 1840. Bonham's.

I know my Pauvacaw (haw haw!), but I am yet to be introduced to whoever lovely Coondoomunny is.

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'Furyu Children's Dance' from a series Modern Children's Dances - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1840.

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Every Friday, fairies make time to comb and tidy the beards of goats. 🐐 And this must be exhausting because on Saturdays they take the whole day off. 🧚🏼‍♀️
🎨Resting Goats, Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux, 1840.

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