#augustus earle

[i-eat-booooks]

Staring new week with reading about Charles Darwin’s life & voyage on HMS Beagle -

(Which immediately persuaded me to book tickets for a family trip to Down House, Kent !)

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Although he would return heavily encumbered by fossils, rock samples and the bodies of interesting wildlife, Darwin carried as little as possible on these trips, and only ever packed one book to read (usually Milton's Paradise Lost) and a single notebook.

"The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" - Roland Allen

[cgcosmo]

[marryat92]

There were at the time but three other midshipmen in the ship, of whom it can only be said that they were like midshipmen in general, with little appetite for learning, but good appetites for dinner, hating every thing like work, fond of every thing like fun, fighting à l'outrance one minute, and sworn friends the next—with general principles of honour and justice, but which were occasionally warped according to circumstances; with all the virtues and vices so heterogeneously jumbled and heaped together, that it was almost impossible to ascribe any action to its true motive, and to ascertain to what point their vice was softened down into almost a virtue, and their virtues from mere excess degenerated into vice.

— Frederick Marryat, Mr. Midshipman Easy

Life on the ocean, representing the usual occupations of the young officers in the steerage of a British frigate at sea (detail) by Augustus Earle, c. 1836

[lindahall]

Augustus Earle – Scientist of the Day

Augustus Earle, an itinerant English artist, died Dec. 10, 1838, at the approximate age of 45.

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[alineuponthewind]

Divine Service as it is Usually Performed on Board a British Frigate at Sea - Augustus Earle

[russadocachorrobranco]

Augustus Earle.Carnival no Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro’s carnival. 

Агустус Арле. Карнавал в Рио-де-Жанейро.

[books0977]

Frances and Algernon Black. Augustus Earle (British, 1793-1838). Oil on canvas. Hunterian Art Gallery.

Earle received his artistic training in the Royal Academy and was already exhibiting there at the age of 13. Earle exhibited classical, genre and historical paintings in six Royal Academy exhibitions between 1806 and 1814.