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Edwin Booth was a famous actor and the brother of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln. In an incident likely in 1864-5 (as recalled by the younger Lincoln) Edwin rescued Lincoln’s son Robert from falling under a train at a station in New Jersey. Robert recognised the man who saved him, but only later did Edwin...

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Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore....

Logsdail didn’t fit in a camp of his time. He painted en plain air like the Impressionists, but was dedicated to picture-perfect renderings, something that was possible because of emerging technologies of the industrial age. It’s so precise I would guess it was projection-aided, but I’m not sure if that was available at...

Oil on cardboard; 31.5 x 21.5 cm....

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Detailed Analysis of this painting: blog.artsper.com/…/understanding-velazquezs-iconi…...

At the Salon of 1804, Gros debuted his painting Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa. The painting launched his career as a successful painter. It depicts Bonaparte in Jaffa visiting soldiers infected with the bubonic plague. He is portrayed reaching out to one of the sick, unfazed by the illness. According to P. Jill...

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Georg Forster travelled on James Cooks 2nd voyage, during which he documented Ice Blink - a glowing light reflecting off clouds from an ice shelf beyond the horizon.

From the British Museum - “An icon of Aztec art, this turquoise mosaic was carved from one piece of cedar wood before being decorated with turquoise, coral and shell using an adhesive made from pine resin. In Mesoamerica, serpents were associated with powers of regeneration and the ability to move between living and ancestral...