Over the past year, a comparatively obscure 19th-century painting by a little-known French-German artist has captured the imagination of audiences across social media, drawing viewers in through ...
“Greenwich Mean Time was established in 1884, in no small part because of train travel,” says Hunter, a specialist in 19th-century French art who researches theories of time, among other subjects.
David Gibson and his sons surveyed (measured and mapped) land for settlement as a part of a 19th-Century settler colonial agenda. After the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 David was wanted by the ...