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Did you know? #NelsonMandela reportedly kept a copy of Watts's painting, Hope, in his cell on Robben Island - a reminder that even in the most difficult of times, there could still be hope. #Mandela100 https://t.co/du50T4YVkO #WattsWednesday Watts, Hope, 1886, Private Collection.
Watts's painting, Hope (1886), has inspired many. Last night @southbankcentre @OfficeGSBrown remembered how Nelson Mandela had told him of the reproduction of Hope he'd kept in his prison cell on Robben Island. #WattsWednesday Image: G F Watts, Hope, 1886, Private Collection.
Born #OTD 1886, King Alfonso XIII of Spain. King from birth as his father had died the previous year & his mother Maria Christina served as regent until he came of age. Married Princess Ena of Battenberg in May 1906 Couple narrowly escaped death when anarchists bombed procession
Eight hours for work! Eight hours for rest! Eight hours for what we will!
Have an empowering #InternationalWorkersDay!
Laborers in Milwaukee demonstrated for reasonable working conditions on May 5th, 1886, the day after the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago.
#bornonthisday * Gerda Wegener March 15, 1886, Haderslev Municipality, Denmark 🌹
Plates from Les Délassements d’Eros, published in 1925
#art #artists #GerdaWegener #Illustrator #artnouveau #artdeco #erotic
The differences of ducks. A page of Scaups from one of Alfred Crawhall Chapman's #NatureNotebooks on a trip to Holy Island, December 1886, to "prove their changes of plumage". It was important to understand plumage to avoid misidentifying & misclassifying species #TaxonomyTuesday
This Friday is family night! Join us for #free events—including a printmaking demonstration— beginning at 4 p.m. Woodblock print, 1886, Frederick Church. https://t.co/3IxPpJKOHd
La Toilette (Woman Combing Her Hair), c. 1884–1886, pastel on paper, by Edgar Degas,
This Friday is family night! Join us for #free events beginning at 4 p.m. Woodblock print, 1886, Frederick Church. https://t.co/c310jyvk33
The Wrath of the Seas, 1886, Ivan Aivazovsky #TheClouds https://t.co/NoXUFmcT9T
Edgar #Degas, The tub, 1886, Hill-Stead Museum , Farmington, CT, US