View of Ishihara Bridge at Okawabata by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)

17 112

🎩🧐Did you know? In Belfast in 1847, a Mr Grant
took it upon himself to make an enormous Christmas cake which weighed 4480lbs (2 tonnes, or 2032Kg)!
It was “studded throughout” with 100 gold rings 💍
manufactured by a "respectable local jeweller". 🏛️🎄✨

3 13

1847). Sep1998.
The eternal struggle continues…

5 16

FUN FACT:
John Marshall (1765-1845) married in 1795, Jane Pollard (1770-1847) from Halifax. They lived in Leeds and then Hallsteads. Jane was a lifelong friend of Dorothy Wordsworth's, but I haven't seen any evidence Anne Lister knew or mentioned these women in her journals.

2 21

Tea House at Imadobashi by Moonlight, by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)

28 206

December 4, 1847: The first issue of Univercoelum was published. It was a Spiritualist periodical, started by Andrew Jackson Davis.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

0 2

Sarah Dodson (1847-1906)
- The Morning Stars (1887)

39 140

Victor Gabriel Gilbert (13 February 1847 – 21 July 1933) was a French painter mostly known for his Parisian scenes and portraying market scenes there.

276 1095

Alberto Tibule Furcy de Lavault (1847-1915)

0 4

Born on this day: German pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847)

0 3

by Jean-Jacques Grandville
(1803 - 1847)


good morning all

6 28

Frederick Arthur Bridgman 🇺🇸 (b. 10.11.1847)
'The Procession of the Sacred Bull Apis'
Oil on canvas
60.6 x 106 cm

0 4

1847 Nov 8: James Young Simpson introduced chloroform into obstetric practice https://t.co/jxNuSP8hr1 Despite the legend the baby was NOT named Anaesthesia

3 2

Happy Birthday to Bram Stoker (Nov. 8, 1847 to April 20, 1912)! Your creation may owe 11 pounds, but lore and owe you a much greater debt.

0 3

View of Ishihara Bridge at Okawabata, by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)

9 89

Happy birthday Bram Stoker, born in 1847. Here are some of our book illustrations inspired by his vampiric classic.

17 41

Happy birthday to Bram Stoker, in 1847. Best known for his novel "Dracula," his short story collection "Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories" was published in 1914 by his widow, Florence Stoker
🎨2012 Google Doodle commemorating the 165th anniversary of his birth

30 89

author of was born on 8th Nov 1847 in Dublin. He spent most of his life in England & a holiday in proved his inspiration. Part of his novel is set there - it is where Dracula lands. Images: views of Whitby by Atkinson Grimshaw, late C19th.

124 330

Musique du soir. Le 4 novembre 1847, disparaissait le génial Mendelssohn. 38 ans, et des œuvres fabuleuses. Comme cette ouverture évoquant la grotte de Fingal aux Hébrides, peinte ici par Thomas Moran en 1884
Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture (Abbado) https://t.co/FWn8PPfoc0

45 230