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[marryat92]

It is impossible to contemplate any steam-engine, without feeling wonder and admiration at the ingenuity of man; but this feeling is raised to a degree of awe when you look at a locomotive engine—there is such enormous power compressed into so small a space—I never can divest myself of the idea that it is possessed of vitality—that it is a living as well as a moving being—and that idea, joined with its immense power, conjures up in my mind that it is some spitting, fizzing, terrific demon, who, if he could escape control, would be ready and happy to drag us by thousands to destruction.

— Frederick Marryat, "Diary on the Continent" (Olla Podrida)

Inauguration du premier chemin de fer en Belgique or Départ de la Flèche le 5 mai 1835 by Jan Antoon Neuhuys, 1885. An artistic recreation of the new Belgian rail lines of 1835 that Marryat witnessed on his continental tour.

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[lescuriositesdelafoire]

Jan Antoon Neuhuys

Flower still life in the style of the old Dutch

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Reading Aloud the Letter. Jan Antoon Neuhuys (Dutch, 1832-1891). Oil on canvas.

Neuhuys studied at the art academy of Antwerp and obtained the first prize there. He was the pupil of Nicaise de Keyzer.

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