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The northernmost battle battle of the #CivilWar, the Battle of Salineville, OH, was fought #OTD in 1863. It brought an end to Confederate John Hunt Morgan’s 6-week long cavalry raid across several northern states.
Belcolore ('Girl with a Rose') for this week's #GabrielGiovedi. This exquisite work is currently in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and was completed & sold to the artist George Price Boyce #OTD in 1863. @mfaboston
🌏 The mammals of Australia.
London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863.
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🐼 The mammals of Australia.
London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863.
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❄ British beetles
London, Bell and Daldy, 1863.
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🐼 The mammals of Australia.
London, Printed by Taylor and Francis, pub. by the author, 1863.
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Wombats, #TasmanianDevils & dingos are animals we are hoping to see & learn more about in the next episode of #SevenWorldsOnePlanet Admiring these lithographs while we wait... all by Henry Constantine Richter in John Gould's 'Mammals of Australia', [1845-]1863.
#sciart
Solomon and his father David shown together by Alexander Gibbs in memory of Prince Albert at Peterborough Cathedral, 1863. Also in the Tree of Jesse at Ely Cathedral, also Cambs, by William Wailes 1857 and an older piece in @museecluny Paris for #OctoberOT.
Una prueba más de que en muchas ocasiones detrás de una gran pintura hay una gran estampa.
Marcantonio Raimondi. El juicio de Paris (detalle). Buril, h. 1510. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Édouard Manet. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (detalle). Óleo sobre lienzo, 1863. Musée d'Orsay
Illustration of Bael, from "Dictionnaire Infernal," 1863.
When Gary Shandling is feeling not so pretty he puts on his crown, hangs out with his cat and his frog, and they all hail the fuck outta Satan.
#satanism
The Great Flying Phalanger, from Gould's "Mammals of Australia", 1863. #GreaterGlider https://t.co/LpaU3VDXsk @BioDivLibrary & @SILibraries
Day 2 - This is a portrait of Sir John Everett Millais’ five year old daughter Effie at her first sermon, painted in 1863. Can you guess what she is doing in the portrait of her second sermon? Find out tomorrow #12DaysOfChristmas #SeenandHeard
Heinrich Lefler was born #OTD 1863. These beauties are from “Grimms Märchen” (Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and were by both Lefler and his brother-in-law Joseph Urban.
Godfather Death
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and Rose Red
Snow White
#Art #ArtHistory #ArtNouveau #GrimmsFairyTales
Yellow-bellied Glider, Petaurus australis (formerly known as Belideus flaviventer) from John Gould's Mammals of Australia, 1863. https://t.co/ea9phxVLyX via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries
“It passes along the branches with the utmost celerity” moving “from one tree to another… by leaping from the higher branches, and floating through the air is easy and elegant sweeps." Gould 1863. #GreaterGlider https://t.co/WoO8NBKqem Via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries