19th Centuryists

Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

Vincent van Gogh

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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. Portrait of a Lady with Red Hair Band #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury #kunst

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

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Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

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The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions

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TRIP to COATHAM : WATERING PLACE YORKSHIRE 1810 HUTTON Map Plates WALK HISTORY #books #antiquarian #history #19thcentury #Coatham #Redcar #northyorkshire #map #history #walk #coast #bookauction bit.ly/4mdA8O7

Marlene

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For those of you into #AnneLister, but also other bits of #c19th #history. #oneplace #research

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🎟️ Registration for the #AnneListerSummit (Autumn Edition) is now OPEN! Explore 1830s fashion, Halifax history, and find out how #AnneLister is connected to #America250... www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...

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Dave Shoots Books

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This ca.1900 #book contains the #biographies of four #women who were active in the promotion of #Christian #religion in the late #19thCentury. Lovely #ArtNouveau cover. Missing front free endpaper. $25. #Booksky #missionary #Spurgeon #BoothTucker #Havergal #Ramabai #prettybooks #oldbooks

The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions

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HISTORY OF THE ROMAN WALL 1802 HUTTON Map HADRIAN'S WALL Walk Travel PLATES #books #antiquarian #19thcentury #history #Roman #Britain #HadriansWall #NorthEngland #walk #travel #antiquities #map #bookauction bit.ly/3VhWsv7

The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions

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TRADITIONS LANCASHIRE 1867 ROBY 2v ENGRAVINGS Bindings FOLKLORE ANTIQUITIES #books #antiquarian #Lancashire #traditions #customs #folklore #history #antiquities #19thcentury #engravings #bindings #England #bookauction bit.ly/42oPFUi

Association for Scottish Literature

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I gaed to spend a week in Fife— An unco week it proved to be— For there I met a waesome wife Lamentin’ her viduity… —“The Annuity”, by George Outram (1805–56) – advocate, lyricist, & editor of the @heraldscotland.bsky.social Today, 15 Sept, is #PensionsAwarenessDay. Tak tent! #C19th #Scots #poem

The Annuity
George Outram (1805–1856) – advocate, lyricist, editor and proprietor of the Glasgow Herald, author of Legal and Other Lyrics.

I gaed to spend a week in Fife—
An unco week it proved to be—
For there I met a waesome wife
Lamentin’ her viduity.
Her grief brak out sae fierce and fell,
I thought her heart wad burst the shell,
And,—I was sae left tae mysel,—
I sell’t her an annuity.

The bargain lookit fair eneugh—
She just was turned o’ saxty-three—
I couldna guessed she’d prove sae teugh,
By human ingenuity.
But years have come, and years have gane,
And there she’s yet as stieve ’s a stane—
The limmer’s growin’ young again,
Since she got her annuity.

She’s crined awa’ to bane and skin,
But that, it seems, is naught to me;
She’s like to live—although she’s in
The last stage o’ tenuity.
She munches wi’ her wizened gums,
An’ stumps about on legs o’ thrums;
But comes—as sure as Christmas comes—
To ca’ for her annuity.

She jokes her joke, an’ cracks her crack,
As spunkie as a growin’ flea—
An’ there she sits upon my back,
A livin’ perpetuity.
She hurkles by her ingle side,
An’ toasts an’ toasts her wrunkled hide—
Lord kens how lang she yet may bide
To ca’ for her annuity.

I read the tables drawn wi’ care
For an Insurance Company;
Her chance o’ life was stated there,
Wi’ perfect perspicuity.
But tables here or tables there,
She’s lived ten years beyond her share,
An’s like to live a dizzen mair,
To ca’ for her annuity.

$I got the loun that drew the deed— We spelled it o’er right carefully;— In vain he yerked his souple heid, To find an ambiguity: It’s dated—tested—a’ complete— The proper stamp—nae word delete— And diligence, as on decreet, May pass for her annuity. Last Yule she had a fearfu’ hoast,— I thought a kink might set me free; I led her out, ’mang snaw and frost, Wi’ constant assiduity. But deil ma’ care—the blast gaed by, And missed the auld anatomy; It just cost me a tooth, forbye Discharging her annuity. I thought that grief might gar her quit— Her only son was lost at sea— But aff her wits behoved to flit, An’ leave her in fatuity! She threeps, an’ threeps, he’s livin’ yet, For a’ the tellin’ she can get; But catch the doited runt forget To ca’ for her annuity! If there’s a sough o’ cholera, Or typhus,—wha sae gleg as she? She buys up baths, an’ drugs, an’ a’, In siccan superfluity! She doesna need—she’s fever proof— The pest gaed owre her very roof— She tauld me sae—an’ then her loof Held out for her annuity. Ae day she fell, her arm she brak— A compound fracture as could be— Nae leech the cure wad undertak, Whate’er was the gratuity. It’s cured! She handles ’t like a flail— It does as weel in bits as hale— But I’m a broken man mysel Wi’ her and her annuity.$

Her broozled flesh and broken banes
Are weel as flesh and banes can be;
She beats the tades that live in stanes,
An’ fatten in vacuity!
They die when they’re exposed to air—
They canna thole the atmosphere—
But her!—expose her onywhere—
She lives for her annuity.

If mortal means could nick her thread,
Sma’ crime it wad appear to me—
Ca’ t murder—or ca’ t homicide—
I’d justify ’t—an’ do it tae.
But how to fell a withered wife
That’s carved out o’ the tree of life—
The timmer limmer dares the knife
To settle her annuity.

I’d try a shot—but whar’s the mark?—
Her vital parts are hid frae me;
Her back-bane wanders through her sark
In an unkenned corkscrewity.
She’s palsified, an’ shakes her head
Sae fast about, ye scarce can see ’t—
It’s past the power o’ steel or lead
To settle her annuity.

She might be drowned;—but go she’ll not
Within a mile o’ loch or sea;
Or hanged—if cord could grip a throat
O’ siccan exiguity.
It’s fitter far to hang the rope—
It draws out like a telescope—
’Twad tak’ a dreadfu’ length o’ drop
To settle her annuity.

Will poison do ’t?—It has been tried.
But, be’t in hash or fricassee,
That’s just the dish she can’t abide,
Whatever kind o’ goût it hae.
It’s needless to assail her doubts,—
She gangs by instinct—like the brutes,—
An’ only eats an’ drinks what suits
Hersel an’ her annuity.

The Bible says the age o’ man
Threescore and ten, perchance, may be;
She’s ninety-four—Let them wha can
Explain the incongruity.
She should hae lived afore the flood—
She’s come o’ patriarchal blood—
She’s some auld Pagan, mummified
Alive for her annuity.

She’s been embalmed inside and oot—
She’s sauted to the last degree—
There’s pickle in her very snoot
Sae caper-like an’ cruety.
Lot’s wife was fresh compared to her—
They’ve kyanized the useless knir,—
She canna decompose—nae mair
Than her accursed annuity.

The water-drap wears out the rock,
As this eternal jaud wears me;
I could withstand the single shock,
But not the continuity.
It’s pay me here, an’ pay me there—
An’ pay me, pay me, evermair—
I’ll gang demented wi’ despair—
I’m charged for her annuity!

History Today

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In this week’s Miscellanies: #19thcentury Birmingham was a highlight on the grand tours of #India’s Muslim rulers, eager to witness the manufacture of the modern world. 📬 Sign up for our email newsletter at buff.ly/4ysl18p

Patrick Kapty

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Kayanic Dayak shrine guardian mask wood, shell 19th century #kayanic #dayak #shrineguardian #mask #wood #shell #19thcentury #borneo #indonesia #malaysia #kayanicart #oceanicart #tribalart #art #ritual #protection #fertility #initiation #culture #sculpture

"Kayanic Dayak" refers to art and cultural traditions of the Kayan and related groups of the Dayak peoples, indigenous inhabitants of the island of Borneo. The term "Kayanic" specifically describes the artistic and cultural affinities of the Orang Ulu, or "upriver people," in the region, including groups like the Kayan, Kenyah, and Bahau, who share common aesthetic traditions rooted in the interior of Borneo.
The term is used to describe related Dayak sub-groups, most notably the Kayan and Kenyah people, who are among Borneo's most accomplished artists.
Kayanic art is characterized by elaborate wood sculpture, beadwork, and other forms of artistic expression found in traditional items such as burial sites, funerary structures, and decorative elements for longhouses and artifacts like baby carriers.
These artistic traditions are tied to the Dayak peoples' history and culture, which includes practices like animism and, in the past, headhunting.
The Kayanic tradition originates from the interior of Borneo, particularly in the middle Mahakam basin of East Kalimantan (Indonesia) and parts of Sarawak (Malaysia).

Claude Monet

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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

Vincent van Gogh

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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. Head of a Peasant Woman (1885) In museum: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Ede, Netherlands. Dimensions: height 41cm, width 34cm. #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury #kunst

Association for Scottish Literature

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Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels” #C19th #romanticism www.youtube.com/watch?v=t….

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Dr Gerard McKeever - Scotch Novels

YouTube video by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

Claude Monet

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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

Vincent van Gogh

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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. The Night Café (1888) In museum: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, United States of America. Dimensions: height 72cm, width 92cm. #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury #kunst

La Vintagería

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Plato Sandeman Macdougall (s. XIX). + info: www.lavintageria.es/2025/…. #SandemanMacdougall, #antiguedades , #sigloXIX, #platos , #porcelana, #Antiques, #19thcentury, #plates, #porcelain, #Antiquités, #XIXesiècle, #assiettes, #porcelaine

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Plato Sandeman Macdougall (s. XIX)

David Gilmour

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