French novelist Jules Verne died #onthisday in 1905. His fantastic tales of voyage and adventure have lent themselves to many wonderful illustrations but perhaps none so captivating as those by Émile-Antoine Bayard for Around the Moon (1870) — https://t.co/D7jAUweInr #otd pic.twitter.com/WmQwiObKGk
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) March 23, 2021
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Details from The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke by the British painter Richard Dadd, who died #onthisday in 1886 whilst in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Read more on the man and his mesmerising work in Nicholas Tromans' essay — https://t.co/TdPHcTbNxK #OTD pic.twitter.com/zf302mjH0g
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City streets, a winepress, pulleys, spinning tops, a ray fish, curdled milk: some of the images used by anatomist Andreas Vesalius (who died #onthisday in 1564) to explain the workings of the human body. Marri Lynn explores: https://t.co/1yKGCU0J6Y #OTD pic.twitter.com/JATCMqw4sG
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) October 15, 2020
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"They were three months passing through the forest", an illustration (for Old French Fairy Tales, 1920) by Virginia Frances Sterrett who died of tuberculosis #onthisday in 1931. She was aged just 30.
More of her magical illustrations here: https://t.co/yFq610eQ2r #OTD pic.twitter.com/6E8sbOnnQ9
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One of a great series of drawings depicting balloonfish and pufferfish made during the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. More here: https://t.co/Qm27fPzl2k pic.twitter.com/U965XQ4Dxe
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Illustration from Eskimo Folktales (1921), a book of Greenlandic Inuit folktales collected by the legendary explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen. More here: https://t.co/C9h7voRZhn pic.twitter.com/pgZ1bO98qP
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) December 17, 2019
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Wanderings of a Comet, by J. J. Grandville, 1844.
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No.2 of our Top 10 best-selling prints. See our full selection here: https://t.co/1gAB1Z4QUn pic.twitter.com/uDvZ3FFMVg
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) December 2, 2019
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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
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) November 5, 2019
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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
— Public Domain Review (@PublicDomainRev) October 7, 2019
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on: October 07, 2019 at 11:19AM