A Nobody | Self portrait | Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890
Vincent Van Gogh, Self portrait, 1890 “What am I in the eyes of most people? A good-for-nothing, an eccentric and...
1890s
Letter to an Oxford student on the uselessness of art | Oscar Wilde (1891)
Autograph letter signed, London, to Bernulf Clegg, 1891 . My Dear Sir Art is useless because its aim is simply...
Instant Views [o.] Olympic games, Athens, Greece 1896 | photos by Albert Meyer
Olympic games, Athens,1896 Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos in the disc firing position ...
Book//mark – Dracula / Rare book covers | Bram Stoker, 1897
First edition, Archibald Constable and Co, 1897 Grosset & Dunlap,...
Painters [*/ ) The Haunting | Paintings by Odilon Redon (1878 – 1897)
“I have a feeling only for shadows.” Odilon Redon Odilon Redon, Haunting, 1893 ...
The derailed locomotive | Granville–Paris Express / Gare Montparnasse (1895)
The derailed locomotive, Granville–Paris Express, 1895 . The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 4 pm on 22 October 1895 when the...
Stereosc2pe + | Sleep
Children sleeping in Mulberry Street, 1890 Thurston Hopkins
Painters [*/ ) The Kiss | Edvard Munch, 1892 – 1905
Edvard Munch, The Kiss, 1895 Edvard Munch, Kiss, 1897 Edvard Munch, Preliminary Study for The Kiss Edvard Munch, The Kiss, 1905...
International Animation Day: 28 Oct. 1892 / Théâtre Optique | Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844 –1918) / Pauvre Pierrot (aka Poor Pete) 1892
Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844 –1918) was a French inventor, responsible for the first projected animated cartoons. Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in...
Days [ ) Taming the Bicycle / Mark Twain, 1893
unknown "When you have reached the point in bicycling where you can balance the machine tolerably fairly and propel it...