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[BabelColour @StuartHumphryes]

I've cleaned for you this amazing salt print photo of London, taken nearly 200-years ago from Blackfriars Bridge by Henry Cundell. It was taken in 1844 and is the earliest photo of St Paul's and one of the earliest of London itself. Taken only a couple of months after the publication of 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, this is an incredible and rare oppotunity to see the real Dickensian London, with St Pauls shrouded and obscured by the thick, smoggy air of old London town. A truly remarkable window through time!

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1685 The fall of the dragon and the rebel angels defeated by St Michael - Charles Le Brun

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This painting is from 1833.

It's by Thomas Cole, an artist of extraordinary imaginative power.

But The Titan's Goblet isn't even his masterpiece...

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c1580 Pleasure Garden with a Maze attributed to Lodewijk Toeput

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

A Balloon View of London as seen from Hampstead, 1851.

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1810 View of the fortress of Lleida

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@AthahMaran @disciple_2 1556 description of the celestial orbs according to ancient doctrine of the Pythagoreans

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1510 Archangel Michael by Jacob Cornelisz

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1664 Böckler's Pleasure Garden Plans

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c1800-1900 lithograph from New York - Prince's, Aerial Ship "Star of the East". Described as a 300ft X 50ft balloon of gum elastic, cabins made of willow, rudder, open fans, and a G.G. receiver for rarifying the air"