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1819 Michel Martin Drolling - Portrait of an Artist
(Chimei Museum)
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Image from ‘The Works of G. J. Whyte-Melville. Edited by Sir H. Maxwell. [With illustrations by J. B. Partridge, Hugh Thomson, and others.]’, 002454853
- Author: MELVILLE, George John Whyte.
- Volume: 24
- Page: 363
- Year: 1898
- Place: London
- Publisher: W. Thacker & Co.
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1608 Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Portrait of Ludovic Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox
(Private сollection)
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Gertrude Käsebier (American, 1852–1934), Woman Knitting Sock Outdoors.
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This is the proper way to pluralize the ampersand. From Shakespeare: A Revelation: A Novel by Henry Lumley, 1899.
To achieve one must act. To not act is to achieve nothing. This is true in all things. The inability to achieve is the result of one's inaction
~~Yozan Uesugi quoted in the notes to Assassination Classroom.
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At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife by Laurits Andersen Ring 1897.
Source: commons.wikimedia.org
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Billie Burke, Mrs. Ziegfeld
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The date due slip from "Animal forms; a text-book of zoology" by Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931; Heath, Harold, b. 1868 Publication date 1907, c1902
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Teatro Greco di Siracusa, Ifigenia in Aulide di Euripide, Agamennone di Eschilo (1918). Duilio Cambellotti. Colour lithograph print on paper poster.
The Greek fleet is about to sail from the port of Aulis, under the command of Agamemnon, to avenge the affront of Paris, the kidnapper of the beautiful Helen, wife of Menelaus. At the beginning of the tragedy the king tells an old servant that the goddess Artemis, angry with the Greeks, blocks the fleet with a calm and that the soothsayer Calcante has announced that to placate the wrath of the goddess it is necessary to sacrifice Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon.
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Twilight, 1871, John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Contrary to popular expectations, this is what happens in a real disaster. Civilization holds. People move in groups whenever they can. They are usually far more polite than they are normally. They look out for one another, and they maintain hierarchies. ‘People die the same way they live,’ notes disaster sociologist Lee Clarke, 'with friends, loved ones, and colleagues, in communities.’
Amanda Ripley, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why (via zerogate)
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April 21st 1746 saw Glasgow host formal celebrations to mark the defeat of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, and award the Duke of Cumberland the freedom of the city.
Cumberland was also given the Freedom of Edinburgh, as well as Chancellor of both Aberdeen and St Andrews Universities.
This shows the complicated situation in Scotland, and that Culloden, and the Jacobite moment in itself was not just a Scotland v England affair.
Of Glasgow, Lord George Murray, Dòmhnall Cameron of Lochiel and Sìm Fraser, apparent of Lovat, all featured prominently on the Jacobite side. Keppoch, indeed, was killed at the Battle of Culloden were all educated at The University, it was also the institution of choice for much of Clan Campbell who were staunch supporters of the Hanoverian establishment as well as several other prominent Whig clans.
Many non-Gaelic speaking Lowlanders, of course, supported the Jacobites while many Gaelic speakers supported the Hanoverian (the ‘Whig’ or King George’s) position.
The victorious Duke of Cumberland gave permission that the regimental colours of the Macdonalds of Keppoch be sent to Glasgow. Keppoch’s colours were treated in the following manner by the authorities in Glasgow, 25th June 1746:
“they this day, being the principal weekly market, between the hours of twelve and one at noon, caused burn them publickly at the cross, by the hand of the common hangman, amidst the huzzaes and acclamations of many thousands of spectators and to the infinite joy of the whole inhabitants of this city.”
Alasdair Macdonald of Keppoch was among the fallen at Culloden and was another Jacobite educated at Glasgow.
Lastly the University’s Principal of the time, Mr Niall Campbell, was himself a Gael from Glen Aray but a strong supporter of the Hanoverian regime. A letter (see pic) in his own hand, thanking the government for his appointment at Glasgow, highlights this, when he stated, 1727, that he a was “full of affection to His Ma[jes]ties Royal Person.
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Miss Mary Tunaley (1790-1793). Joseph Wright of Derby (English, 1734-1797). Oil on canvas. MFA, Boston.
According to family tradition, the sitter, Mary Tunaley, was a particular favorite of Joseph Wright, who in the early 1790s lived near the Tunaley family in Derby, England. She eventually came to Boston with her husband, Francis Boott, a partner in the trading firm Boott & Farrow.
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Image from ‘Jack Junk; or, the Tar for all weathers: a romance of the sea. By the author of Richard Parker, etc. [i.e. T. Prest.]’, 001913755
- Author: JUNK, Jack.
- Page: 169
- Year: 1851
- Place: London
- Publisher:
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La Señora Doña Teresa de Ugarte y Penarrieta, Condesa de Peñaflorida. Claudio Coello, late 17th century
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The Mirror by Vasily Kandinsky, 1907, Guggenheim Museum
Size: 32.1x15.8 cm Medium: Linoleum cut
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris