19th Century British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to ...
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Houston museum showcases British landscape watercolors from the 18th and 19th centuries
When one thinks of landscape watercolors, it is hard not picture pastoral scenes of England’s green and pleasant land, to quote William Blake. But in the history of art, British landscape painting is ...
Rare Rediscovered Masterpiece by Tissot Comes to Bonhams 19th Century Sale in London London – Rediscovered masterpiece by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902) is the highlight of Bonhams ...
In 1870, 29-year-old British photographer Thomas Child moved to Peking — as Beijing was formerly known — to work as a gas engineer for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. Although he signed a ...
THERE are days when the world changes, and a man does not notice because his mind is on his own affairs," we're told by Thomas Shield, the eloquent narrator in Andrew Taylor's Regency-era mystery An ...
Jane Austen’s early Chinese translators were stumped by the oddities of 19th-century British cuisine
Jane Austen’s works are globally renowned, but they were unknown in China until 1935 when two different translations of “Pride and Prejudice” were published. Today, her novels are increasingly popular ...
London – A rediscovered masterpiece in watercolour, A Reception in the Harem by John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876), unseen in public for over 60 years, leads Bonhams 19th Century & Orientalist Paintings ...
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