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Jean de Brunhoff was the French author and illustrator best known for creating the Babar series. He was born #OTD in 1899. The books began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff invented for their children.
"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.
#KarlMay #JosefUlrich #Balkans #Winnetou
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)
🌄 Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer "Valdivia" 1898-1899. bd.6. Atlas
Jena, G. Fischer, 1902-40.
https://t.co/OEDaz4rpaK
The Legend of the Wolves - Rosa Bonheur, 1822/1899. (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). #art
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
🌲 Teachers' manual of bird-life:
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899.
https://t.co/L9Smbszf4e
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.
"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.
Alfred Hitchcock was born on this day in 1899. A couple of pieces. #illustration
Mary Poppins author P L Travers born #OTD 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.
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.
🌲 Teachers' manual of bird-life:
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899.
https://t.co/L9Smbszf4e
Nikolaos Gyzis (1842-1901, Greek)
#symbolism #painting #artlovers #art #artshare #fineart
Artist ’s Psyche, 1899.
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 #Pissarro here: https://t.co/ZBuubx6T9L
History and the park: British Empire...............An A B C, for baby patriots, by Mrs MF Ames, 1899.............https://t.co/S6xNI1P5S9 #BritishEmpire
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
Le #manuscrit entre @laBnF avec la #collection 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 @GallicaBnF Belle visite!🤩 https://t.co/CRKWDd8eSZ