Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Saturday, January 6, 2024

12th Night - Just a Bit of English Literature

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First Folio William Shakespeare wrote the play Twelfth Night , circa 1601. William Shakespeare wrote a play called Twelfth Night, Or Wha...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Saint Stephen's Day

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Israhel van Meckenem (1445-1503), St. Stephen, engraving, circa 1480-1490. In Acts of the Apostles, Stephen alarms the Jews with his pre...

Saint Stephen's Day

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Attributed to Antonio Tempesta (Florence 1555 - Rome 1630) The Stoning of St Stephen In Acts of the Apostles, Stephen alarms the Jews wi...

Georgian English Christmas 1714-1820

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Farmer Giles's Establishment Christmas Day 1800 Georgian Christmas dinner "During the Georgian period (1714-1820), it was oft...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Beware! Do not kiss an unwilling maid under the mistletoe in the 18C

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"Christmas gambols, or a kiss under the mistletoe" (etching published by Laurie & Whittle, 1794) Christmas gambols, or a ki...

19C England's First Christmas Trees

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Queen Charlotte's 1800 Christmas Tree "Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort, is usually credited with having introduced the C...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Epiphany - The Kings finding the Christ Child

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The Adoration Anonimo Siglo XIV-XV
Saturday, October 22, 2016

A Sleeping 17C Baby

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Bernardo Strozzi (Italian painter, 1581-1644) Sleeping Child
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

One of my favorite turkey paintings

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Stanley Spencer, (English painter, 1891-1959) Turkeys 1946
Friday, October 30, 2015

Bastille Day 1890 by van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist, 1853-1890) is Auvers Town Hall 14 July 1890
Friday, October 16, 2015

1935 Picnic in California

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1935 Picnic in California
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

1910-1925 American Picnic

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1910-1925 American Picnic. Photo by John Johnson. Johnson was born in Lincoln in 1879 to Harrison Johnson, an escaped slave and Civil War...
Saturday, October 10, 2015

1920 Picnic in North Carolina

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1920 Picnic in North Carolina
Thursday, October 8, 2015

1915 Picnic in Seattle, Washington

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1915 Picnic in driftwood at beach below Magnolia Bluff, Seattle, Washington
Sunday, October 4, 2015

1894 Maine Picnic

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1894 An outing in the Maine woods
Friday, October 2, 2015

1871 The Glorious Fourth - Sending up the Fire Balloon

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1871 The Glorious Fourth - Sending up the Fire Balloon. Harper's Weekly