Happy Birthday to Lithuanian/Samogitian writer, ethnographer and prose historian Simonas Daukantas (1793-1864). As one of the pioneers of the Lithuanian national revival, Daukantas wrote the first book on the history of Lithuania written in the Lithuanian language. He also published several books on Lithuanian and Samogitian folklore, and wrote a Polish-Lithuanian dictionary. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Daukantas, designed by Lithuanian artist Aušrele Ratkeviciene, and issued by Lithuania on March 13, 1993 to commemorate the bicentenary of the writer's birth, Scott No. 446, plus an image of an oil on canvas painted portrait of Simonas Daukantas by Armenian artist Jan Rustem (1762-1835) which may have been the model for this stamp's design.
Happy Birthday to French novelist, art theorist and Minister for Cultural Affairs André Malraux DSO (1901-1976). Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp featuring a portrait of Malraux and depicting the 1933 Prix Goncourt medallion which he won for his novel La Condition Humaine ("Man's Fate") about the 1927 failed Communist rebellion in Shanghai, designed and engraved by Claude Haley, and issued by France on November 26, 1979, Scott No. B519, Y&T No. 2032B, plus a photo of André Malraux,
Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) was a Galician (Spanish) novelist, journalist, essayist, critic and scholar. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of the writer, engraved by Pablo Sampedro Molero, and issued by Spain on January 27, 1972, Scott No. 1698, Edifil No. 2071, plus an image of a painting of Emilia Pardo Bazán.
Mikael Agricola a clergyman is the founder of literary Finnish. He is often called the father of literary Finnish. He translated the New Testament into Finnish and wrote the prayer book used in Finland`s Lutheran Church.
Happy Birthday to François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), generally known by his nom de plume Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher. Here are images of a couple of stamps issued to honor Voltaire, plus an image of a painted portrait.
- nethryk
Voltaire and "Liberty," an airmail semi-postal (charity) stamp printed by photogravure, and issued by Hungary on October 16, 1948, Scott No. CB4.
Portrait of Voltaire, designed and engraved by Charles Mazelin after a painting by French Rococo artist Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788), a semi-postal stamp issued by France on November 14, 1949, Scott No. B238, Y&T No. 854, plus an image of La Tour's painting.
Happy Birthday to Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, an American author and humorist most famous for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its great sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of the author, designed by Romanian artist Serban Zainea (1907-1990), printed by photogravure, and issued by Romania in August, 1960, Scott No. 1341, plus a detail of a photo of Mark Twain taken by Matthew Brady on February 7, 1871, and a YouTube link to a theatrical trailer for the 1960 MGM film The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Happy Birthday to Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (1810-1857), a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Perhaps Musset's most famous quotation is "How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception." Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of the writer, designed and engraved by Claude Andréotto, and issued by Gabon on March 31, 1982, Scott No. 503, plus an image of a painted portrait of Alfred de Musset by French artist Charles Landelle (1821-1908) which was probably a model for this stamp's design. Bonus: Hand.
Happy Birthday to French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), best known for his first published novel, the "scandalous" Madame Bovary (1856). Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp featuring a portrait of the author, designed by Paul-Pierre Lemagny (1905-1997) after a painting by French artist Pierre François Eugène Giraud (1806-1881), engraved by Charles-Paul Dufresne, and issued by France on October 18, 1952, Scott No. B267, Y&T No. 930, plus an image of Giraud's original work of art.
A Flaubert quote: "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
Happy Birthday to Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755), a French political philosopher and man of letters. Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp featuring a portrait of the author, designed by Paul-Pierre Lemagny, engraved by Charles-Paul Dufresne, and issued by France on November 14, 1949, Scott No. B238, Y&T No. 853, plus a painted profile portrait of Montesquieu. Tip: For a literary treat, read Montesquieu's epistolary novel Lettres persanes ("Persian Letters," 1721) recounting the factitious impressions of two Persian noblemen traveling through pre-revolutionary France.
Happy Birthday to Ayn Rand (1905-1982), a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Rand is best known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), and for her philosophical system, Objectivism. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of the author and depicting a skyscraper (a reference to her fictional architect hero, Howard Roark), designed by American artist Phil Jordan, printed by lithography, and issued by the USA on April 22, 1999, Scott No. 3308, plus an image of a photograph of Ayn Rand, and a YouTube link to a theatrical trailer for the 1949 film version of The Fountainhead, starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Raymond Massey, for which Rand wrote the screenplay.
Quote: "Do you want to stand alone against the whole world?"
Happy Birthday to Czech journalist, editor and writer Ferdinand Peroutka (1895-1978). As a proponent of the Czech democratic tradition, Peroutka was arrested after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. For refusing to collaborate with the Nazis, he was held in the German concentration camp Buchenwald until 1945. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Peroutka and depicting two shattered emblems of political oppression: the swastika of Naziism, and the hammer and sickle of Soviet Communism, designed by Czech artist Oldrich Kulhánek (1940-2013), engraved by Miloš Ondrácek, and issued by Czech Republic on February 1, 1995 to commemorate the journalist's birth centenary, Scott No. 2943, plus an image of a photograph of Ferdinand Peroutka.
Here are images of the four stamps in another set depicting scenes from Shui Hu Zhuan (see my post on August 25, 2014 on the previous page of this thread), printed by photogravure, and issued by China (People's Republic) on July 25, 1989, Scott Nos. 2216-19. Bonuses: Big cat, horse, archery, and small watercraft.
- nethryk
Wu Song fighting a tiger on Jingyang Ridge.
Qin Ming dodging arrows.
Hua Rong shooting at a flying goose on Mt. Liangshan.
Happy Birthday to Anton ("Toni") Costache Bacalbasa (1865-1899), a Romanian anti-militaristic political journalist, humorist and politician. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Bacalbasa, designed by Serban Zainea, printed by photogravure, and issued by Romania on May 10, 1965 as one of its "Cultural Anniversary" stamp series, Scott No. 1739, plus an image of a c. 1890 photograph of Toni Bacalbasa.
Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Abby Jane Morrell (1809-?), an American woman who between 1829 and 1831 accompanied her husband Captain Benjamin Morrell on a voyage that took her from New England to the South Pacific. Upon her return, Morrell wrote an observant and thoughtful account of the voyage, entitled Narrative of a voyage to the Ethiopic and South Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Chinese Sea, North and South Pacific Ocean in the Years 1829, 1830, 1831 (1833), which was subsequently abridged and published as Captain's Wife. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Abby Jane Morrell, designed and engraved by Pierre Albuisson, and issued for use in French Southern and Antarctic Territories in January 2000, Scott No. 262, plus an image of the cover of the most recent edition (2012) of Captain's Wife.
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