All Art Is Theft

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Irish astronomer William Parsons might have been surprised to see van Gogh’s The Starry Night appear in 1889.

He had drawn this sketch of the Whirlpool Galaxy 44 years earlier:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:M51Sketch.jpg

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