Tag Archives: 1845

Painting of the Peter and Paul Fortress by an unknown artist, 1845

“Via Appia at Sunset,” Alexander Ivanov, 1845

Oil on canvas.

“Sunrise with Sea Monsters,” J. M. W. Turner, 1845

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“I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.”

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why – I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full well,
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.

— Tom Brown, circa 1680 (apocryphal)





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Chromolithograph of the Hall of Christ Church, Oxford, from the book Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities (published by Charles Knight and Co., London, 1845)

“Le Désespéré,” Gustave Courbet, circa 1845

Oil on canvas.

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