#1849

[nemfrog]

Orb weaver and its web. Episodes of insect life. 1849. Book cover detail.

Internet Archive

[hargita1920]

[fashionsfromhistory]

Shellwork Basket of Flowers

c.1840-1850

New England Region, United States

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Number: 2010.598.1-3)

[jeannepompadour]

Elisaveta Sergeevna Stroganova by Francois Dessain 1849 

[questionableadvice]

~ Advice to Young Ladies on Their Conduct and Duties in Life, by T.S. Arthur, 1849

[historical-fashion-polls]

which outfit would you rather wear? (1849)

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[diemelusine]

Portrait of Katarzyna Jahn, artist's sister (1849) by Józef Simmler. National Museum in Warsaw.

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Hamlet and His Mother

Eugène Delacroix French

1849

"This painting depicts the moment in Shakespeare’s epic tragedy Hamlet in which the protagonist, who has been speaking privately with his mother, Queen Gertrude of Denmark, notices a figure behind the curtains of her closet. Immediately afterward, Hamlet will impale the hidden Polonius with his sword, and utter the memorable phrase "How now! A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!" The composition is identical to a black and white lithograph Delacroix made for a portfolio devoted to the play, which was first published in 1843."