Hawks: 😆

me, a depraved 1850s man who's never seen an sliver of skin: n-neck 😍🤤

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Good afternoon Twitter and welcome to Tuesday's history quiz (and shameless book promo)!
How much did it cost to consult a will at Doctors' Commons in the 1850s?
A. Sixpence?
B. A shilling?
C. Ten shillings?
D. A pound?

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Around the world in 80 paintings

'Le Petit Pont, Paris' is the next stop on the

Charles Meryon was a well known French etcher and produced a series of images of Paris in the 1850s.

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In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): https://t.co/OEtpMfAJtM

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An afternoon at the park, 1938 - (2021)
Inspired by a photography from the book "Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s" (link below)

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By the mid-1850s the sending of manufactured Valentine’s Day cards was popular enough that the New York Times published an editorial on February 14, 1856 sharply criticizing the practice:

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Coal scuttle and all that coal . . . .maybe Mittens the cat would look better with her white fur covered with coal dust . . ..

Read "The Oath" https://t.co/EUl8GVhxSt Image: Coal scuttle. ca. 1850s. Copper and brass. via https://t.co/wWaXlRwoXB.

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Take more Richard Gavin Starr. I love my trash vampire boi. Been doing that Hot Girl Shit since the 1850s. (Nonbinary, all pronouns. Typically he/him for himself but doesn't really give af)

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Born Thomas Couture French history & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s

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Maclise also produced his own atlas of Surgical Anatomy in the 1850s (photos: Wellcome Collection)

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anyway my hands are still getting back to normal, but her name is Isadora and she's lovely if you get to know her c:

also 1850s fashion is the WORST to draw

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Raja Jowahir Singh & attendants, colored print after W. Carpenter 1850s. Brother of Maharani Jindan & Uncle of Maharaja Duleep Singh. pic frm

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and in vintage dresses. Ethan’s is from the 1850s and Mark’s is from around the 1740s I think.

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1850s Lis here, ready to get underpaid

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Some masculine input for this week's Although far more associated with female portraiture, Rossetti's studies of men are both sensitive & impressive: head of farmer in 'Found' (1869), Ford Madox Brown (1867), male head study 1850s (Mus. of Fine Arts, Budapest).

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Born in 1830: (1830-1904), Queen of Spain

Portrait by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1850s

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By the mid-1850s, there were roughly 50,000 deaths a year in London. Townships were running out of room to bury the deceased, causing sanitation issues and health concerns.

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Two works of Ludlow Castle in Residence of the EIC Resident/Agent in Delhi & later of the British Commissioner of Delhi. Left 19th cen watercolour frm & Right 1850s by Felice Beato frm

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