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Anne Lister was born on this day 232 years ago, in 1791 🎩
owing to her diligent diary-writing, we have an incredibly valuable record of lesbianism in the early C19th, showing that sexuality as an identity and not just a practice is a much older concept than previously thought
Late C19th #Chinese #Cantonese Pot & Cover - For What Use Was it Made ? 5 Inches High… @FineCountryWNW @WestKirbyToday @heswallmagazine @shrewsmorris @RLGCHoylake @MyWirral @YOLiverpool @MikeRoyden @thedustyteapot @UndisScot @orientalchina @WirralSocial @XHNews @SCMPNews #China
#NewProfilePic
GM/GN Fam!
New TORIO 0⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣
will drop in auction tomorrow Dec19th at 5AM (GMT+7) on @formfunction
1/1 non-generative
#MITORIO 👊🔥🔥🔥
“Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew...”
A C19th bedtime poem by Eugene Field. #Illustration by Margaret Tarrant, for Verses for Children, 1918. #night #dreams #moon #art #LegendaryWednesday
For some historic magic: here’s a fusion of William Shakespeare’s early modern enchantment, & Gustave Doré’s C19th palette for you in ‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’ (1870) ✨
#FairyFriday
Early C19th ? Could be Useful Before Dawn ! Well-prepared Second Maybe ? What Am I ? #London & #Provincial Use !@shrewsmorris @heswallmagazine @YOLiverpool @thedustyteapot @YarnallKate @Audefledis @Lucy_Pulvers @ahistoryinart @warwickwright1 @MilitaryTimes @ahistoryinart @NYMag
Huldra is a seductive nymph in Norwegian folklore. In early lore she is often described as having a hollow back, but later (C19th onwards) depictions focus on her beauty. She is known for her long blonde hair, and a tail that falls off if she marries a man.
#FolkloreSunday
夏休みに遊びに行った友達の家で勧められたのがきっかけでした。それが大人になってリマスター版を買い、こんなに日々の生活に食い込む程尾を引くとは、恐ろしい布教効果だなあと思いつつ、当時使っていたしろずきんちゃんを描きました🙌
#FFCC19thAnniversary
Kept a close eye on the dress depicted in this late C18th-early C19th French artists collection. Have details if anyone would like.
‘There is communion past the need of speech,
There is a love no words of love can reach’ From Deep-Sea Soundings, Sarah Williams.
Tomorrow, for Emily Bronte’s birthday, join us to celebrate the writing of women in the C19th.
#BookWormSat
Independence Day: Fourth of July Bostonians Memories - In 1899 The Boston Globe recalled #IndependenceDay or #FourthofJuly celebrations remembered by Bostonians from years earlier. These memories ... https://t.co/2RB3zZl4fJ #c19th
“Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light,
Into a sea of dew...”
A C19th bedtime #poem by Eugene Field. #Illustration by Margaret Tarrant, for Verses for Children, 1918. #night #moon #art #nursery #dreams #BookWormSat
#FairytaleTuesday
Were nursery rhymes social/political satire❓
R.S. Duncan credits “HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH” as referencing a Wakefield Prison practice of having its women prisoners [otherwise shackled] to exercise around its now infamous C19th mulberry tree.
We hold many records of Surrey organisations, charities & schools that provide care for hearing loss. For #DeafAwarenessWeek we’re sharing this rare & colourful early C19th engraving showing sign language, from the ‘Chertseyana’ scrapbook of Robert Wetton, printer (6516/3/240).
The Cowboy: An American West Icon - The word cowboy did not begin to come into wide usage until the 1870s. In the nineteenth century, George Parsons, a licensed attorney turned banker lived ... https://t.co/p1YgAhJKh3 #c19th #cowboys #WildWildWest
How beautiful is this late C19th silk painting of a pheasant (we think!) by Wang Guochen #DrawAPictureofABirdDay https://t.co/whgfe3BJ6S
Afternoon loveliness. 🦌
Deer and Tree Against Sunset, Antoine-Louis Barye, C19th.
OTD in 1850, Robert Stephenson opened the Britannia Bridge. A tubular Box Section Bridge built to provide a direct rail link from London to Holyhead.
This photograph from the late C19th. taken near Ynys Llandysilio (Church Island) shows the original tubular bridge construction.