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In episode 18, Nephrite's yōma is called Jumeau. This is a reference to Jumeau, the French bisque doll company that started in the early 1840s. #SailorMoon #SailorMoonTrivia
More of a force than a mythological creature, in Irish mythology, hungry grass/féar gortach is a patch of cursed grass! Also known as fairy grass, anyone walking on it is doomed to perpetual & insatiable hunger! Not known if this dates to 1840s famine or older! #FolkloreThursday
Yesterday we were presented the Needham egg collection -an interesting, data-rich series of 600+ clutches collected between the 1840s and mid 20th century. Almost all the eggs have detail provenance e.g Corn Bunting collected in Climping, West Sussex on 1 July 1938 #ornithology
Kuniyoshi
Benkei killing a giant fish
Saitô Oniwakamaru, from the mid-1840s #kuniyoshi #ukiyoe
Both watching and listening to 'Dombey and Son', and was seized with an urge to draw un-sensible 1840s ringlets. So here is Florence, done very quickly before bed. 💜
#sketch #sketching #dickens #kidlitart
In 1840s goldsmith & major Victorian antiquary Joseph Mayer joined the campaign to establish a public museum in Liverpool - @World_Museum - One reason was to keep unoccupied artisans out of pubs. He opened the Egyptian Museum at 8 Colquitt St in 1852 ...but it's now a @BrewDog
At the Theatre Royal, the famous ghost
is The Man in Grey.
In tricorne hat and cloak, he walks
along the 4th row of the Upper Circle
and disappears through the wall.
In the 1840s, a hidden cavity was
found there - and a skeleton with a dagger
in its chest.
#FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday Vinegar valentines were a type of insulting cards. They are decorated with a caricature, and featured below an insulting poem. Ostensibly given on Valentine's Day.They enjoyed popularity from the 1840s to the 1940s.
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Selenophile ...
🎨 Nordkapp "The North Cape by Moonlight" 1840s or 1850s.
Peder Balke (1804–1887) #Norwegian painter. Landscape of Norway in a romantic and dramatic manner.
@HistoryofColour 🖼@TheVisualArt #VisualArt #HistoryofPainting
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🎨 Nordkapp "The North Cape by Moonlight" 1840s or 1850s.
👨🎨 Peder Balke (Nov 4, 1804, Helgøya – Feb 5, 1887, Christiania) was a Norwegian painter. He is known for portraying the landscape of Norway in a romantic and dramatic manner.
Beauty of #Art
#HistoryofPainting
In 1840s goldsmith & major Victorian antiquary Joseph Mayer joined the campaign to establish a public museum in Liverpool. One reason was to keep unoccupied artisans out of pubs. He opened his own Egyptian Museum at 8 Colquitt St in 1852 ..but it's now a PUB!
#CakeDecorating is rumored to have started at a French bakery in the 1840s 🍰
#StrangeDaysIndeed 111/365
#Cake #illustration #lettering
1840s: Prince Albert brought a Christmas tree to Windsor Castle, starting the UK tradition #VictorianChristmas (Décoration du sapin de Noël)
One fun bonus of doing a game set in the 1840s: I get to draw people with amazingly large hats.
Here's some 1840s #fashion ahead of the exciting @NorwichFashJam show here tonight from 7 https://t.co/NwQ4Kfa97k
Love mushrooms? Help tag 1840s @NYBG book w/ species names http://t.co/KZ8sBOzsYT Instructions http://t.co/ZYest12bWk