19th Centuryists

Your daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. Landscape with dune, #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury

Landscape with dune by Vincent van Gogh,

Victorian Turkish Baths

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#onthisday, 17 April 1880, the #Brooklyn Turkish Bath Company (Pres. Dr Wood) opened Victorian #TurkishBaths at 24 Clinton Street. (Wood and Eli Miller had opened the 1st Manhattan bath in 1865.) Open day & night for men; daily (except Sun.) for women. Later added Russian & Electric baths. 🗃️ #C19th

Drawing of the Turkish baths. Four storeys high—one more than its neighbours—the building is in the vernacular style with plain windows, six on each floor, with the entrance—up a flight of stairs—replacing one of them at the first floor level. A large TURKISH BATHS sign is mounted on the roof, protruding from which is an outsize US flag.

Advertisement from the 1882 Brooklyn Street Directory for Dr Wood's Turkish, Russian, Roman, and Electric baths. The ad boasts pure spring water, swimming pool, "Dry hand-rubbing after the bath", refreshments, smoking-room, chiropodist, manicure, and barber.

Drawing of an extension to the building proposed five years after the baths opened, but not proceded with. It would have protruded around two feet in front of the building, almost to the front of the existing entrance steps. The large keyhole arched entrance and the many similar shaped windows, together with a highly decorated top floor façade, was clearly intended to bring the imagined east to the viewer's mind.

Claude Monet

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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. Portrait of Guurtje Van de Stadt, 1871 In museum: Kröller-Müller Museum Location: Ede, Otterlo, Netherlands Size: 40.0 × 73.0 cm #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

Portrait of Guurtje Van de Stadt by Claude Monet, 1871

Letterform Archive

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Ermeler, C. F. (Calligrapher), Lale, J. D. (Engraver), Collection De Soixante-Sept Modèles d' Écritures…, Paris, 1818. oa.letterformarchive.org/…. One of many writing manuals in the Online Archive: oa.letterformarchive.org?…. #Calligraphy #19thCentury #EngravedBooks

Detail of a book page showing a long, continuous stroke from a broad-nibbed pen. Below is the heading, “OBSERVATION.” and some French text.

Page of a book with the heading, “POSTURE DU CORPS.” Pictured are three people sitting at desks with pen in hand and writing on paper.

Lone Wolf Comics

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#SnowPaw Vol 1: Upon discovering her #werewolf lineage, a young woman’s eyes are opened to the existence of #Supernatural beings & creatures of #Fantasy in #19thCentury #Scotland! Join the #WolfPack on @kickstarter.com at snowpaw.lonewolfcomics.com Featured art by @alsares.bsky.social!

Victorian Turkish Baths

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#onthisday, 16 April 1874, #Hanley Council opened public baths in Lichfield Street. They also included vapour & #TurkishBaths. A morning, afternoon or evening Turkish cost 1/6, 1/-, or 6d; vapour baths cost 6d or 2d. The Turkish closed 1980—some years after the pools. Demolished 1981. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Photo shows central section of the exterior of the baths building. The beginnings of the two wings can be seen on either side, with the tall boiler chimney protruding above the one on the left. The central portion has three sections: that on the left is in the form of a spire-topped tower with a double door entrance leading to the bath-keeper's residence on the top floor and to the women's baths on the first floor; the right-hand section has an entrance marked Public Baths which leads to the men's baths. The baths comprised two swimming pools, Turkish baths, and 12 private baths for males, and a swimming pool, Turkish bath, and 6 private baths for females.

Vincent van Gogh

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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. The garden at the asylum at Saint-Rémy, 1889 In museum: Kröller-Müller Museum Location: Ede, Otterlo, Netherlands Size: 75.5 × 95.0 cm #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury

The garden at the asylum at Saint-Rémy by Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Claude Monet

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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. Palazzo da Mula, Venice, 1908 In museum: National Gallery of Art Location: Washington, D.C., United States of America Size: 80.5 × 61.4 cm #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

Palazzo da Mula, Venice by Claude Monet, 1908

Kattekopjes

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Onofre Jarpa, Palmas da Ocoa (c.1888). Collection: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile #art #painting #landscape #19thcentury #trees #palmtrees

In the foreground: a riverbed cascading down among rocks. In the centre: shrubs and four palm trees. Behind, on the left, a hill. Background: top of mountains. Blue sky with white clouds.

Langtry Gallery

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This John Davenport 1820 "Chinoiserie Ruins" pattern has their earliest mark of a small anchor. #blueandwhitepottery #blueandwhite #johndavenport #chinoiserieruins #chinoiserie #interiordesign #art #antiqueart #antiques #1820s #19thcentury #antiquario #arte #antiquités #nineteenthcentury

Vincent van Gogh

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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. Evening: The End of the Day (after Millet), 1889 In museum: Menard Art Museum Location: Komaki, Japan Size: 94.0 × 72.0 cm #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury

Evening: The End of the Day (after Millet) by Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Orchard Notes

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Anyone for "Apple Pie Which is Digestible"? Dr. Alvin Wood Chase's 1871 recipe tells you how, and more importantly, how to avoid making an apple pie which is *in*digestible. I mean, you wouldn't want to make one of those, would you..? orchardnotes.com/2026/04/…. #recipe #c19th #applepie

An 1871 recipe for "Apple Pie Which is Digestible" by Dr. Alvin Wood Chase. Please follow the link in the post for a full-text version on orchardnotes.com.

Claude Monet

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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet. La Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877 In museum: Musée d'Orsay Location: 7th arrondissement of Paris, France Size: 1040.0 × 750.0 cm #art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury

La Gare Saint-Lazare by Claude Monet, 1877

Kattekopjes

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David Roberts, Mont St Michel (1848). Collection: National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh #art #painting #19thcentury #France #landscape #abbey #beach #people #tidal #island

Centre of the picture: the abbey at low tide. The abbey church is towering on top of the hill. The surrounding walls are visible and some people are wading towards the island. Foreground: people on the beach. Blue sky with a few small white clouds. More clouds on the horizon which is only visible on either side of the mount.

Stephanie

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I wish my mother would stop reading the Telegraph, she's started spouting their opinions &being "anti-woke". I told my parents about the way that London Docklands Museum have displayed Croydon resident Beeston Long's portrait, part covered &she looked like she'd swallowed a wasp #C19th 🗃

Vincent van Gogh

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Your daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh. Farms near Auvers, 1890 In museum: National Gallery, Tate Location: City of Westminster, United Kingdom Size: 100.3 × 50.2 cm #art #dutchart #vanGogh #impressionism #19thCentury

Farms near Auvers by Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Victorian Turkish Baths

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After a public meeting addressed by Charles Bartholomew, the #Neath Bath Co Ltd was formed to lease him a new #TurkishBaths. They opened #onthisday, 14 Apr 1864. (www.victorianturkishbath.…). It closed in 1887 showing how difficult it was for small towns to support them. 🗃️ #C19th

Charles Bartholomew, son of a Wiltshire farmhand, learned about Turkish baths directly from David Urquhart, opened his first in 1860, and died in 1889 leaving a chain of seven establishments around the country between Bristol and Manchester.

Map of part of Church Place, with the Turkish baths having a second entrance in Old Market Street.

Advertisement for the baths in an 1873 Cardiff directory, giving charges (2/- and 1/- including shampooing) and noting 'Ladies only on Tuesdays).

The Turkish baths closed in 1887, but the building with its entrance in Church Place is shown here in a 2014 photograph taken for the website by Harriet Eaton, Heritage Education Officer, Neath Library.

Victorian Turkish Baths

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#onthisday, 14 April 1862, Alfred Allshorn, owner of #TurkishBaths in Princes St, #Edinburgh, opened a second in Yeaman Shore, #Dundee. These included 3 "frigidaria", tepidarium, caldarium, sudatorium. slipper baths, douche & a hall. Allshorn also opened a bath in #Perth later that yr. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Exterior of the octagonal end of the baths.

Ground floor plan of the baths. The octagon, separated from the other rooms by a double door air-lock, was called the Perspiration Room. (Dundee University Archives 000000193)

Advertisement from the Dundee Courier (25 Jun 1862) is unusual in two respects. First, it is one of the few establishments that includes 'Roman Bath' in its name. Second, it is one of very few where the management has come to an arrangement with the local railway company enabling it to offer return rail tickets between the nearby railway station and Perth or Newtyle. These include a Turkish bath, and are separately priced for first, second, and third class rail passengers.

Advertisement in the Dundee Courier (6 Mar 1869) for an afternoon lecture on "The Jewish Sabbath and the Lord's Day". Several Victorian Turkish baths had halls attached where other activities could take place, following those owners belonging to David Urquhart's Foreign Affairs Committees whose baths were designed with space for political meetings.

Claude Monet

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