Madelaine De Courson.
Antique Fruit Prints by Alexandre Bivort and Séraph Bavay.
These exquiste, lithographs are from "Album of Pomologie", published in Brussels, 1847-1850.
This work is truly a pomological rarity as there are only three complete copies.
https://t.co/9GlDU8bj3A

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Animated Flowers!

Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées of 1847 slyly turn florally-attired women into colorful cautionary tales. Particularly love the tippling tit (or is that swigging sparrow?) in the grapevine illustration!


https://t.co/ppO66th4g6

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On this day in 1978, released her debut single "Wuthering Heights"

Bush wrote the song at aged 18 after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights.

Original hand written lyrics…

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In 1840, he had a portrait accepted by the Salon. Between 1841-5 he lived in Cherbourg, Paris & Le Harve. In Paris he wd meet Troyon, Charles Jacques & Daumier. In 1847 he gained success with Oedipus & Winnower (1848), Peasant with Wheelbarrow (c1848) & the Bather (1846-8)

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Soir / Evening.1911.
Oil on Canvas.
Oval: 160 x 111 cm. (63 x 43.70 in.)
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris, France.

Art by Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier.(1847-1914).

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Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847-1906, American)
«Le Berceau» *The Cradie * Колыбель, 1903.

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Durbar scene showing Wajid Ali Shah of embracing Gov-Gen Lord Hardinge on his visit to Lucknow, Nov 1847. British civil & military officers as well as sepoys present. 1847 with https://t.co/zLcTeqXOK6

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Charm Offensive – Inside Switzerland’s Surprisingly Polite Civil War of 1847
https://t.co/nqsDsWxwbO

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Pierre Auguste Cot (1847-1883) - Le printemps - huile sur toile
Peintre académique au XIXème siècle, il est né le 17 février 1847 à Bédarieux. Il a également fait partie des jurys du Salon de Paris et du Prix de Rome. Il mourut en 1883 à Bédarieux.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Study for "Apotheosis to Thomas Cole", ca. 1847 https://t.co/XnHYRTQeYH

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Lucifer has been represented in art to some stunningly beautiful results:
Lucifer by Franz Stuck (1890)
Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabranel (1847)
Lucifer by Jackson Pollock (1947)

Do you have a favorite Lucifer art depiction?

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Study of a Dodo and a Guinea-pig, 1847.
Artist; Charlotte Augusta Spencer-Churchill

I love the Dodo, have done so since I saw a reconstruction of one during a school visit to a local museum.

I like to imagine that these two pals had some grand adventures.

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1847年1月1日。
(旧暦では弘化3年11月15日)

元長州藩士で軍人で政治家。
そして緒方竹虎へ「大正改元スクープ」を伝え
学習院での対立の結果
嘉納治五郎が「世界へ羽ばたく」きっかけともなった
三浦梧楼が生まれました。





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道外見富利十二志
弘化4~嘉永5 (Around 1847~1852)

年の始まりです
細かくいうと みずのえとら
(つづく)

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For who were wrongly locked out of twitter for an art bum as their bio pic, we have a male nude (he's posed as a sculptor) by Ford Madox Brown, 1847. With a great art bum we're sure you'll agree! Do give a follow if you don't already! 🍑

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Sunny Hours, (1902), by Frederick Morgan (1847 – 1927)

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Thawing Weather, 1887

By the American painter of German origin Theodore Clement Steele (T. C. Steele), (1847- 1926)

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This is La Ghirlandata and Veronica Veronese Alexa Wilding (1847-1884) the model and Rossetti painter. She was his model and muse and there are more paintings of her than Elizabeth Siddall, Jane Morris or Fanny Cornforth. I didn’t know that!

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[작가] 오늘은 프랑스의 화가 『토마스 쿠튀르 (Thomas Couture)』가 태어난 날 입니다.
1815.12.21 - 1879.03.30
● Artist CV: https://t.co/4EV1RYhhIb

*퇴폐기의 로마인들
1847, 캔버스에 유채, 466 x 775cm, 오르세 미술관

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