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#OTD is the bicentenary of the death of dr. Edward Jenner. Born in 1749, he was the creator of the #smallpox #vaccine and thus founded a new branch of #medicine called #immunology.
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Alessandro Magnasco, 1667 – 1749, Italian late-Baroque painter - The Exorcism of the Waves
➤“Diana y Calisto”, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre 1745 – 1749, @museodelparado©, muestra el engaño de Júpiter a la ninfa Calisto. Ninfa de gran belleza y miembro del séquito de Diana, diosa de la caza, fue seducida por Júpiter quien para ello tomó las facciones de Diana.
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Born #OnThisDay in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a #French #portrait #painter & one of the first women to become a member of the Royal Academy.
📷 Credit: @WikiCommons, "Self-Portrait with Two Pupils" by #AdélaïdeLabilleGuiard, 1785.
#birthday #OTD
Looking for #weekend reading? Spend some time with our #blog by E. Charles Nelson about Mark Catesby, 1683-1749, #author & #Illustrator of "The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands", 1729-1747: https://t.co/UX08W5mvmM #GoodReads Images @BioDivLibrary
Born #OnThisDay 1749, Edward Jenner, #Gloucestershire physician, known as 'the father of #vaccination'.
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In 1749 he met Commodore Keppel & joined him on a voyage to the Mediterranean. As part of his journey he spent two years in Italy studying Italian art. Portraits of Keppel by Reynolds (1752, 1749, 1779 & 1780). He came away from Italy with notions of grandeur.
The Bottle Conjuror of 1749 - On 16 January 1749, at the New Theater in Haymarket, an anonymous person known as the “#BottleConjuror” or “Bottle Conjurer” was set to perform a variety of amazing feats at six-thirty ... https://t.co/1JzWJWwETD #18thcentury