The Premature Burial (1854) by Antoine Wiertz (Belgian, 1806–1865). Wiertz Museum. [“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague." ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial]

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I am going to spotlight the rather strange art of Antoine Wiertz this week. This is his “The Premature Burial” (1854) @ Wiertz Museum, Brussels

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One of six magnificent colour lithographs to be found in an 1854 work by John Fisk Allen documenting the amateur botanist's attempts to propagate the Victoria amazonica in the more northerly climes of his hometown of Salem — https://t.co/IWRItSAVK0

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Allegory, 1911, by Maximilian Pirner (1854 - 1924)

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Discover the influence of Virginia Woolf & her ideas on a community of creative women, including Vanessa Bell, from 1854 to now– in the extraordinary 'Virginia Woolf: an exhibition inspired by her writings' ends on 16 September https://t.co/NEZdvlgeuz

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Jaime Morera y Galicia (1854-1927)
Beach with setting sun

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Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) The Wrestling Scene in 'As You Like It' (1854).The Cork-born painter made a career in London in history painting, as well as depicting works of literature. He was a devoted Shakespearean, once visiting Stratford-upon-Avon with his friend Charles Dickens

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Amazon Water Lilies (Victoria amazonica) are white the first night that they open, and on the second night, they turn pink. by William Sharp for John Fisk Allen, Victoria regia (1854). Contributed to by : https://t.co/KhrKdfDWft

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Chicago! Thursday, August 9th I’ll be doing a talk/Q&A/signing for my new book COME AGAIN at (1854 W. North) at 7pm. See you there— spread the word!

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Finis (The End of All Things), 1887, Maximilian Pirner (1854 - 1924)

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1855 The Daily Telegraph was first published, during the Crimean War. The electric telegraph linking the front to London sent news “with the speed of lightning”. As the Electric Telegraph Co, BT supplied the army's first mobile unit in 1854 in the Crimea

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in 1854, during the Crimean War, Charles Davis Lucas becomes the 1st person to win the when he removes a burning shell from HMS Hecla during bombardment of Russian fortress, Bomarsund on the Baltic coast

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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819—26 Mar 1892), U.S. poet, journalist, essayist.

"His verse collection Leaves of Grass a landmark in history of American literature."

📷 Engraving by Gabriel Harrison, 1854
📷 Brady-Handy Coll., 1860-65
📷 Mathew Brady, 1871
📷 George C. Cox, 1887

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Detail from 'Highland Pastures by Thomas Sidney Cooper British (1803 - 1902)
18.5 x 21.5 inches (without frame)
Oil on panel
Signed and dated 1854

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Maximilian Pirner (1854-1924), Allégorie

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