Tag Archives: 1860

“Cloud Study, Moonlight,” Albert Bierstadt, circa 1860

Oil on paper.

I swear to you — this looks very much like the nightly view outside my home here in Roanoke.

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“The Plague in Winterthur in 1328,” by August Corrodi, 1860

Lithograph.

L0004056 The plague in Winterthur in 1328. Lithograph by A. Corrodi,

Illustration of a wild boar, by Anton Strassgschwandtner, circa 1860

“An unarmed huntsman, threatened by a wild boar, takes refuge in a tree.”  Colored lithograph.

 

V0023233 An unarmed huntsman, threatened by a wild boar, takes refuge

“Dante in Exile,” by Domenico Peterlini, circa 1860

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Photo credit: By Domenico Peterlini (o Petarlini o Peterlin) (1822 – 1891, attribuito) (http://www.stelle.com.br/pt/anonimo1.html) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.