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The Battle of Vauchamp was fought 1814 and was the last French victory during the Six Days Campaign of the War of the Sixth Coalition. Hand watercoloured steel engraving from a drawing by Martinet, engraved by Jean Reville - 1838.

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2023-02-14

Today's birthday-haver is Will Anthonio Zeppeli! His birthday is January 19th, and he was born in 1838. Wishing him an amazing birthday! 🎂

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2023-01-19

🦤🦉🦩Let's explore some fantastic bird illustrations. Birds of America was printed between 1827 and 1838.

All 435 illustrations are now available as a free download (signing up for their email list is a prerequisite). Truly inspirational!

https://t.co/AWYb3gdeCF

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2023-01-06

🐳 Compléments de Buffon. t.1.
Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1838.
https://t.co/9cYAD5XRZG

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2022-09-27

Battle between Cossacks and Circassians, 1838.

A painting by the German artist Heinrich Ambrose Eckert (1807-1840)

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2022-07-18

🐳 Compléments de Buffon. t.1.
Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1838.
https://t.co/9cYAD5XRZG

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2022-06-30

I recall a version of this story that I loved as a girl, The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen about a princess who rescues her 11 brothers from a spell cast by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838.  https://t.co/NCVV4DFGO8

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2022-06-14

Somehow managed to miss Queen Victoria's birthday yesterday, so here's a portrait from our collections... with the Royal Pavilion in the background!

🖼️ H Jones, 'Her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria 1st As She Appeared at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton', 1838.

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2022-05-26

Map of Boston, 1838.

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2022-05-12

🎨 British painter, illustrator, and author, was 11 May 1838.

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2022-05-11

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly your whole life would change, Buddha
Utagawa Hiroshige,Ibiskus...1838...

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2022-03-24

Auguste Etienne Francois Mayer: the French Corvette "La Recherche" Close to Bear Island, Svalbard, August 7, 1838.

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2022-03-05

🐳 Compléments de Buffon. t.1.
Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1838.
https://t.co/4wAumokSLA

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2022-02-21

For this week's we presented one of our earliest science textbooks, 'Introduction to the Sciences for Use in Schools and for Private Instruction' published in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers in 1838. Learn more: https://t.co/emNc2Jai8l

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2022-01-19

THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into swans and forces them to fly away, they're only allowed to become human again by night. A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova

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2022-01-18

🐳 Compléments de Buffon. t.1.
Paris: P. Pourrat Frères, 1838.
https://t.co/9cYAD5XRZG

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2022-01-14

Charlotte Brontë supposedly based her character "Shirley Keeldar" and her canine companion, "Tartar", on her sister Emily and Emily's beloved bull mastiff, Keeper.
Image: Keeper from life by Emily Brontë (1818-1848), 1838.

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2022-01-06

The Capture of Puerto Bello, 21 November 1739.
Painting by George Chambers (1803-1840), 1838.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Greenwich Hospital Collection (ID: BHC0355)

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2021-12-23

Emily Brontë’s dog mourned her death. 
It is said that Emily’s dog, Keeper, followed her coffin to the grave when she died in 1848 and, for weeks after, moaned and howled outside her bedroom door.

(Keeper, watercolour by Emily, 24 April 1838.)

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2021-12-18

🌈✏️Doodled Punk
just purchased for Ξ0.42 ($1838.56)

https://t.co/8JWtIIWoUB

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2021-12-09