Picturing a Voice, 1857. Margaret Watts-Hughes and the Eidophone. Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts-Hughes.

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Né le 1803, Barend Cornelis Koekkoek est un peintre paysagiste néerlandais.
Winter Landscape, 1856. Forest Landscape, 1857.

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Ruskin received many requests for drawing lessons and advice. In response to this, he wrote 'The Elements of Drawing' which was published in 1857. 🎨✏️

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Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow July 30th, 1857.
back then it might have been an attack but it was rebel?
struggle for freedom
Indian rebelion

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J.A.FITZGERALD'S DREAM PAINTINGS depict humans plagued by hideous fairyland creatures; thought to represent the effects of opium. 1. The artist has fallen asleep, on his easel is a painting of a fairy, the model looks on at him 1857. 2. 1858 3. Pipe Dreams 1870

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Wishing all my twitter-friends a Here’s to another year of inspiration & madness! And to start it off properly, here are some Poe illustrations by James William Carling who was born in 1857.

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Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's tale of marital disillusionment and infidelity was published in novel form in 1857. When serialised the previous year, public prosectuors attacked the novel for its apparent obscenity.

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A monograph of the birds forming the tanagrine genus Calliste : illustrated by coloured plates of all the known species By Sclater, Philip L, et all. London: J. Van Voorst,1857. https://t.co/WrQU11S9yP

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❥❀┇【Icon's de Ichiyou Higuchi.】┇❥ ❀

『#BungouStrayDogs.』

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William Stott of Oldham was born in 1857. See his works here on https://t.co/T2gbvsH0Vf

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Charles Brookfield, first actor to play Sherlock Holmes (in 1893 musical revue Under the Clock) born 1857.

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Day 857. Trying to get high again.

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Auguste Comte, French philosopher, founder of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism, died on this day in 1857.

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(1) Megumi Takani. Lahir Desember 1857. Tingginya 166 cm, berat 45 kg. Di serial ia berusia 22 tahun.

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'Clerk Saunders' by Elizabeth Siddal, 1857. I love the remarkable depth in this painting, and the eyes are haunting.

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