in 1845, Walter Crane, English, was a painter and children's book and nursery rhymes illustrator. Part of the Arts and Crafts Movement, he also designed tiles and other decorative arts.

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Launched, December 1846.


"In 1845, John W. Griffiths built the fast ship Rainbow and followed it in the next year with the even faster Sea Witch, in fact, had more influence on the configuration of fast vessels than any other ship built in the United States.

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1845, Sir John Franklin left in search of never to return. A search party led by John Richardson did not find Franklin, but it did result in a beautiful with much information on and other
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Q56711845, Militão Augusto de Azevedo, Militão Augusto de Azevedo collection https://t.co/BYEx9H4lbO (Palette: 🖌🎨

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Botanical illustration and the park: The family flora and materia medica botanica :containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties of plants, by Peter Good and E Kellogg, 1845, BHL/Missouri Botanical Garden ......https://t.co/6i1tywt55x

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Three more landscapes by James Ward, born OTD in 1769: Stonehenge (1845, Birmingham Museums); Reculver Church, Isle of Thanet (1818, Canterbury Museums), and Kenilworth Castle (1840, Yale Center for British Art). 13/14

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Paul Huet (French, 1803 - 1869),
A Meadow at Sunset, c. 1845,
pastel on gray-blue paper.

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On this day in 1845, Queen Victoria held a 'really most delightful and beautiful' 1745 themed ball at Buckingham Palace. Victoria LOVED her Georgian costume, which was made by the royal dressmakers M. and Mlle Vouillon et Laure.

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When + sailed from England in1845, apparently a white dove was seen in the rigging of the Erebus; something that people took as a good omen.
I'm happy to announce that this ink drawing has been sold at my exhibition "Eismeer" at Galerie Mönter, Meerbusch!

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On this day in 1845, Queen Victoria wrote in her journal that she had 'hung up Winterhalter's lovely sketch of Alice, in her costume, in our sitting-room'. I couldn't find the drawing but it's probably a sketch of this delightful portrait of toddler Alice in Georgian dress.

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Robert Salmon, 1775 – 1845, British artist, South Sea Whale Fishing

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Robert Salmon, 1775 – 1845, British artist, The Custom House Quay, Greenock, Scotland

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Robert Salmon, 1775 – 1845, British artist, Shipping off Greenock

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Robert Salmon, 1775 – 1845, British artist, Frolicking Party on a Sea Shore

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Robert Salmon, 1775 – 1845, British artist, British Merchantman in the River Mersey off Liverpool

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Robert Salmon, 1775 – 1845, British artist, Along the Shore

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"Treat your friends as you do your pictures and place them in their best light". Wise words from Jennie Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston Churchill (and in her latter years, Mrs Cornwallis-West) born 1845, who was a portraitist's dream.

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in 1845, English artist and book illustrator Walter Crane, member of the Arts & Crafts Movement https://t.co/KAIenjtNPM

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26July 1845, Franklin's ships were spotted off Baffin Island. They weren't seen again. What happened? https://t.co/K52IPr2nZ7

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Walter Crane born in 1845, celebrated illustrator of children’s books https://t.co/jgVc7MMQn6

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