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Edward Burne-Jones, Love, 1880s, Watercolour. Inscribed with a line from the Divine Comedy by the Dante Alighieri 'L'Amor che muove il sole e l'altre stelle' (The love that moves the sun and other stars').

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2023-02-04

Oscar Wilde, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 24 May 1884

He was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.

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2022-11-09

He's from the US 1880s, so just simple slacks and shirt. But he learns he's the chosen one by the gods of ancient Sumeria, so he travels to other dimensions and wears their alien attire 😬

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2022-08-05

💚:Hello there Hikarino. No worries...it's fine.
🖤:Kurano over here. Back in the 1880s, we used to go like this.
🤍:Hi everyone, Akarino here👼

突然の光ノで動揺しすぎた
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2022-06-29

I've done a comic called Bruin about a polar bear running free in Dundee city centre in the 1880s, for this new anthology: https://t.co/DQ4Q8oOMZH

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2021-11-27

In the 1880s, summer for 13-year-old Shuffle means trekking across the American West in search of his missing father, armed only with a mythology-themed card game that he & his dad invented & that may contain clues to his dad’s whereabouts. () https://t.co/rE46jowLqc

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2021-06-16

Like many young aesthetes, Sargent was enthralled by Wagner. He first encountered it at the Pasdeloup in Paris. In the 1880s, he would go on to paint Wagner's mistress Judith Gautier, culminating in a visit to that musical mecca, the Bayreuth festival in 1886.

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2021-05-10

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Irish-American actress Ada Rehan was born in Limerick in 1857. She emigrated to the US as a child and by the 1880s, critics hailed her as a stage artist without rival. Oscar Wilde and Shaw were admirers while her fans tried to speak and dress like her.

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2021-04-22

“I have seen pastels referred to as “paintings”. Why do artists call them “paintings” if they are drawn on paper?” Read our reply: https://t.co/XTYObGxhyV
Image: Pastel painting by Manet, 1880s, executed in a manner similar to the French Impressionist’s oil paintings

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2021-01-26

One of my OCs, Svyatofim
"Svyatofim, he is from Russia, moved to the USA in his youth to work, but gave up everything, opened a casino and became a head hunter"

He lives in 1820-1880s, also his story is inspired by Jango Unchained in some moments 👉👈

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2020-09-02

Burne-Jones returned to this figure of ‘Love’ in the 1880s, when he drew this embroidery design - now https://t.co/XRCx9EWEwV

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2020-05-28

Not exactly a lot of empathy displayed in this description of David Thompson, patient at the Royal Edinburgh Lunatic Asylum in the 1880s, for he ‘takes the most amusing postures’ although he was ‘expected to recover’

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2020-05-25

Munch was a prolific painter (some 1000 paintings & 1000s of woodcuts, lithographs etc). His painting was well established in the early 1880s, such as we see in this early self-portrait (on left). But there are others of that decade that share looser style of The Day After.

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2020-04-29

In the 1880s, as the tuberculosis & depression of Abbott Thayer's wife increased, he began painting their children as transcendental spirits. After she died, he made many paintings of his daughter as a Madonna-like figure watching over her siblings. Over years, they age together.

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2020-01-27

Theodor Esbern Philipsen-Danish painter/Jewish ancestry; known 4 landscapes/animal portraits. Also, small figures in wax & clay. In the 1880s, he began painting en plein aire and began to show some elements of Impressionism.

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2020-01-19

In the 1880s, James McNeill Whistler reinvented himself as an artist and bolstered his career with watercolor. https://t.co/RjnHmZr3Yf

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2019-09-29

Just found these lovely images of Dessert Services, circa 1880s, showing patterned plates & cake stands, perfect for By Allbut & Daniel, Illustrated Catalogue of China, Glass, Earthenware, Lamps, etc, pattern book of Silber & Fleming (trademark AMS)

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2019-08-12

Eugenio Zampighi(1859-1944)Italian painter & photographer, mainly of Genre subjects. During the 1880s, produced repertoire of genre scenes, which had an extraordinary success on the art market & brought him international commissions. Influenced by the style of Gaetano Chierici.

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2018-12-09

Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

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2018-09-16

“The Courtesan Jigokudayū Sees Herself as a Skeleton in the Mirror of Hell” by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1880s, Japan

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2016-07-05