Today is the feast of St Timothy & St Titus, popular figures in mainstream 19C church art because of their biblical status. Here the young Timothy is raised by his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois at St Ives, Cambs, 1860s (Wailes?). A picture on the wall foretells his destiny.

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Twilight in the Wilderness (1860s), y Frederic Edwin Church

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Hill and Adamson's photographed only Edinburgh and east coast (unfortunately) from 1845. Annan appears about the same time as H. Macfarlane and A.R. Mac Williams - early 1860s. George Washington Wilson's views of the city mid 1860s. (one by each)
Poss earlier yet to find?

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1860s philippine fashion plate

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Three lawyers, gently amused, in the 1860s. By Honore Daumier, whose day is today.

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Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832 – 1932) was a prominent European and American artist, primarily known for his landscapes. He was born in Bremen, Germany and entered the Düsseldorf Academy at age seventeen. In the late 1860s, settled permanently in the United States.

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"1860s Philippine Fashion Plate" by

Print available at https://t.co/UZR4lRlh6N

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PAINTING OF THE DAY: BATHING ON THE SEINE, 1869 by Pierre Auguste Renoir

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Photographer: Felice Beato (Italian, 1834–1907)

Shamisen

1860s

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We might think that the Surrealists and Dadaists invented photomontage - but it was a hobby from the 1860s onwards, among English aristocrats of the Victorian era.
These are images by Ladys & Viscountesses.

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This is a charming collection of sketches with text descriptions of habitats, colours, and blossoms (c.1860s-70s). It was purchased in Japan and given to the University in 1882. 🌸

(MS 2004)

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What those silly non human creatures were doing in the US in the 1860s

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chapter 1 of my still untitled 1860s island fic is coming this week! Based on a prompt by and beta-ed lovingly by

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*Long*, obscure, Moto Hagio Poe Clan and serialization tweet to follow:
Perhaps due to all the time I spent in grad school writing about 1860s sensation serials (Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Braddon, etc) and the differences between reading them as they were serialized and the book

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His pictures of the 1860s often included either nymphs or peasants. The critics preferred peasants & complained if he included mythological creatures. Mother & Child (c1860), Reverie (1860-5) & the Curious Little Girl (1860-4)

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1st piece for my 4th card of bingo
Can't stop thinking about that one dialogue from Seasons of Fear audiodrama, and I found a perfect dress while learning about arsenic green :)
Charley is dressed in men's fashion of 1860s, which counts as crossdressing

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John Anster Fitzgerald (1819–1906). From 1860s. (a) The Artist's Dream (b) Dreams (c) The Captive Robin and (d) The Fairies Banquet. Some of the artist's titles suggest he was acquainted with the drug world, e.g. The Captive Dreamer & The Pipe Dream.

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