Jean de Brunhoff was the French author and illustrator best known for creating the Babar series. He was born in 1899. The books began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff invented for their children.

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"In The Gorges Of The Balkans" (In den Schluchten des Balkan) by Karl May, illustrated by Josef Ulrich, 1899.
Karl May, Germany's most famous adventure writer, disguised himself as a Turk to go unnoticed in 19th Century Balkans.

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钱松喦,1899.9—1985.9,江苏宜兴人。又名松岩、松喦,40年代曾用名喦庐主人。钱松喦的父亲是晚清秀才,他八岁起随父学习诗、文、书、画,15岁开始写生。在胡汀鹭的影响下,钱松喦重点钻研石涛石溪唐寅沈周画艺,并接触西画技法

(钱松嵒 国画 1)

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🌄 Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. bd.6. Atlas
Jena, G. Fischer, 1902-40.
https://t.co/OEDaz4rpaK

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The Legend of the Wolves - Rosa Bonheur, 1822/1899. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).

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Antikamnia Chemical Co. (a popular medicine) calendar for 1899. ☠️ Ironically, found to contain poison later. ☠️
I’m sure this was an interesting pitch meeting.
Skeletons=health

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🌲 Teachers' manual of bird-life:
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899.
https://t.co/L9Smbszf4e

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Illustrations of 21st century warfare from the year 1899.

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Color woodblock illustrations of summer flowers by Ogata Gekkō from 'The Floral Art of Japan: Being a Second and Revised Edition of the Flowers of Japan' and the Art of Floral Arrangement by Josiah Conder, published by Kelly and Walsh in Tokyo in 1899.

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"A tulip farm in Holland from a drawing by [Dutch-British painter] Nico Jungman".

Original 1899 colour illustration publushed in the British Art Nouveau magazine The Studio, volume 15. U.K., 1899.

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Alfred Hitchcock was born on this day in 1899. A couple of pieces.

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Mary Poppins author P L Travers born 1899. But did you know the iconic illustrations were by Mary Shepard, PUNCH artist E H Shepard's daughter. Mary married PUNCH's editor E V Knox in 1937 and he posed for the pictures of Mr Banks in later Poppins books.

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And of course there is an artistic version of this one too, which has an orange sea because of course it does. It's the northern-most Orcadian lighthouse and was painted with bands for daytime visibility in 1899.

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🌲 Teachers' manual of bird-life:
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899.
https://t.co/L9Smbszf4e

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Nikolaos Gyzis (1842-1901, Greek)

Artist ’s Psyche, 1899.

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Today is Camille Pissarro’s birthday, the Danish-French Impressionist painter who depicted French country life.

“Poplars , Afternoon In Eragny”, 1899.
“The Slopes Of Thierceville , Wheels , Shepherd And Flock”, 1897.

See more artworks by here: https://t.co/ZBuubx6T9L

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History and the park: British Empire...............An A B C, for baby patriots, by Mrs MF Ames, 1899.............https://t.co/S6xNI1P5S9

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🎨 La donació de del 1970 inclou retrats dels personatges que va conèixer a la taberna Quatre Gats i a l’escola de la Llotja, com ara aquest de l’escultor Josep Cardona, amb qui també va compartir estudi a Escudillers Blancs l'any 1899.

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Unlike other A Henty a Week posts, this one features an edited volume by George Alfred Henty as opposed to one of his own single-title historical fiction novels. 'Yule Tide Yarns' contains 10 adventure stories and was published in 1899. Learn more here: https://t.co/HHNaGKxO0m

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Le entre avec la Scheffer en 1899.
🌙Procession à la fin du Ramadan
⛵️navigation
🐫🐫🐫troupeaux
⚖️séance chez le Cadi (juge)
Ces scènes magnifiques et bien d’autres encore sont sur Belle visite!🤩 https://t.co/CRKWDd8eSZ

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