While residing in Saint Petersburg, Shevchenko made three trips to Ukraine in 1843, 1845, and 1846. The difficult conditions 🇺🇦 had made a profound impact on him, in 1844 decided to capture historical ruins and cultural monuments in an album of etchings – Picturesque Ukraine.

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Happy Birthday to the great State of Florida! ⁣

On this day in 1845, Florida became the nation's 27th state.⁣

DYK - no matter where you are in Florida, you’re no farther than 60 miles away from the nearest beach! 😊

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For an illustrated copy of the 14th century poet ʻAssar Tabrizi's Mihr u Mushtari (Or. 11845, Safavid c.1550)

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On this date, December 29th in 1845, Texas became a state in the United States of America. This is my watercolor and ink of an armadillo at sunset along the mountains in Texas. https://t.co/cuRNyBTZpz

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The Earl Grey, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 8 May 1869

Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman.

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Highlander with broadsword and shield. Illustration from Clans of the Scottish Highlands by James Logan, published in 1845, with illustration by R. R. McIan

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In 1884 Moëssard obtained a patent for a rotating-lens Panoramic camera. It covered a 170° field of view & was rotated by hand to expose the film.

Pictured is Moëssard’s 'Cylindrographe' illustration from ‘Le Cylindrographe Appareil Panoramique’, 1845, fig. 9, p23. https://t.co/syOmckkeLj

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American artist Maria Oakey Dewing, born in New York City on October 27, 1845, described herself as a “garden-thirsty soul.”

"Garden in May," 1895

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American artist Maria Oakey Dewing, born in New York City on October 27, 1845, described herself as a “garden-thirsty soul.”

"Garden in May," 1895

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Charles Dickens was born 1812. In 1845, he visited Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery.
'To an English traveller,' Dickens notes, this marks the graves of Shelley and Keats, ''whose name is writ in water' that shines brightly in the landscape of a calm Italian night.'

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In 1845, Asher Durand built on two 1844 paintings and extended a mythology that whites already recognized as a lie... but held on to because it provided legal cover for Native dispossession.

American art has always been ideological.

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«Historia y constitucionalismo español»

En 1812 se promulgaba la primera de la monarquía española, a la que han seguido las de 1834, 1837, 1845, 1869, 1876, 1931 y 1978

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July 19, 1897: Fire guts the McKay Flour Mill in New Edinburgh. 📰 Read more ➡️ https://t.co/NFlL9BN5El


[Image: Thomas Burrowes, “McKay’s Mills, New Edinburgh,” 1845, Archives of Ontario, C-1-0-0-0-4]

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“Pray to whatever you believe in for her safety, Evander Crane, something wretched lingers around her and it has sworn to get her sooner or later.” A Sea Angel's Purgatory, 1841-1845, Maria Ofelia de Olivar.

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The Garden of San Miniato Near Florence, c. 1845, by John Ruskin [2048 x 1417]

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On this day in 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror set sail from Greenhithe in Kent, with a mission to find the Northwest Passage. With 132 men under the command of Sir John Franklin, it was the best supplied expedition ever. None returned.

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Hoffmann’s “Der Struwwelpeter,” from 1845, is a terrifying, German children’s book. In moralizing tales, children are gravely punished for “bad” deeds —like “shaggy Peter’s” hygiene, & thumb-sucking! 😂Chilling images were burned into kids’ memories forever. 📚

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Bird illustration and the park: Systematische Uebersicht der Vögel Nord-Ost-Afrika's, by E Ruppell and J Wolf, 1845, BHL/Smithsonian .... https://t.co/KAIxYOaFgC

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