Fireworks at the Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1858.
Available to buy as a print in our shop: https://t.co/PrQnTa79Rv #bonfirenight #FireworksNight #fireworks pic.twitter.com/Df5XGP4NYL
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Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: https://t.co/FEoQk47JFZ pic.twitter.com/PUfJXgkc5c
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#OnThisDay in 1849, Edgar Allan Poe passed away under mysterious circumstances. Of all the artists who gave life to Poe's macabre tales over the years, perhaps none captured them quite so brilliantly as the Irish artist Harry Clarke: https://t.co/Mn0lE0XVyl #OTD #EdgarAllanPoe pic.twitter.com/uoWhGWcxAA
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Revenge of the Fish.
More topsy-turvy 18th-century woodcuts here: https://t.co/RfHilLttgA pic.twitter.com/54ZCoVm44u
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Illustration by English artist Aubrey Beardsley — born #onthisday in 1872 — depicting a baby being born from the calf of a man, created for an 1894 edition of Lucian's moon fantasy True Story (written in the 2nd century AD) — https://t.co/j8kkxE3quV #otd pic.twitter.com/XDIDBNRS20
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) August 21, 2019
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We’ve spent the day picking highlights from the many centuries of artworks to feature #NotreDame — from its illuminated punctuation of medieval skylines to grainy detailed studies at the birth of photography. See the collection here: https://t.co/ErHSnJgBP3 #Notre_dame_de_Paris pic.twitter.com/BcC9cRhQRM
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) April 16, 2019
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A Way of Flying, from the series Los disparates (The Follies) by Francisco de Goya, who died #onthisday in 1828. Produced 1815–23, it would be the Spanish artist's last major series of prints. See more here: https://t.co/fMZ9XWmumr #OTD pic.twitter.com/BIcar0gRcf
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The Chart of the Inner Landscape (1886) guides Taoists in the creation of the internal elixir of life. It depicts the human body as a microcosm of the universe, where fundamental forces, ancient spirits and celestial bodies all have their place: https://t.co/SQywK06Xfn pic.twitter.com/sKjykZJPRZ
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Rocky landscape with ruins, forming the profile of a man’s face, by Dutch artist Herman Saftleven the Younger, circa 1650. More faces in hills here: https://t.co/3AkrLbfzar pic.twitter.com/wHyunK2FCm
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In many respects, the Victorian era — with its revelations of Darwin, dinosaurs, etc. — was not the simplest time to be a religiously-minded scientist: despair and doubt were rife. But then came the fourth dimension… https://t.co/bU9BbFtHq8 pic.twitter.com/FaKnWgpjqh
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on: March 13, 2019 at 03:12PM