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J.D. Hooker's "Flora Antarctica" describes plants discovered on the Ross expedition (1839–1843), which visited islands off the coast of the Antarctic continent. Explore it in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary @MBLWHOILibrary @mobotgarden for #BotanicMonday ➡️ https://t.co/iBdFP31hCV
Botanical collections were often made by the surgeons on board ships including Kew Director, Sir Joseph Hooker on the HMS Erebus (1839-1843). View Hooker's journal via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/BtXH624o9p #MaritimeArchives Nytophyllum smithi from the resulting flora #Algae ⛵
Born in Paris ~ French painter, illustrator ~ best known for his portraits of close friend, Sarah Bernhardt ~
Georges Clairin ~ 1843~1919
Day 1843
The view from
#MyFrontDoor
courtesy of:
1. @Will_Hazzard
2. @kellyah88
Just like Winter
🍫Happy #ChocolateWeek! The seeds of the cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) are used to make chocolate. #SciArt by Etienne Denisse for his lavishly-illustrated Flore d’Amérique (1843-46), in #BHLib via @NYBG: https://t.co/BsSdbkap5O #FloraFriday
Children of Suleiman Pasha, 1843
Süleyman Paşa'nın Çocukları, 1843
Sea Leopard, from "The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, 1839-1843." https://t.co/KtrZlCQT0s via @BioDivLibrary @MBLWHOILibrary
#6 Peder Balke
Two Sailing Boats by Moonlight 1843
Oil on Canvas
(Private Collection)
#TopTenMoonlightPainters
The Ebstorf Map is an example of a mappa mundi (a Medieval European map of the world) [13th cent.]. The map was found in a convent in Ebstorf, in northern Germany, in 1843. It was a very large map, painted on 30 goatskins sewn together. #earlyillustration #Archaeology
37 of 100 #infographics way before they were so popular: Arnold Dodel (1843–1908) a Swiss-German botanist who created some stunning botanical charts. His work reminds me of Ernst Haeckel - nice, uh?https://t.co/1erzCmB2x1 #100daysofinfographics #illustrations
Spanish painter and engraver #RosarioWeiss died #OnThisDay in 1843. This is the #portrait of her brother Guillermo. #womenartists #womennartblog #art #ArtLovers #artblog
#HistoryofPainting
Washington Allston ARA (Nov 5, 1779 – Jul 9, 1843) was an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting.
Moonlight, 1819
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
#TheNewPainting
'Punch and Judy' illustration by Thomas Crane (1843–1903) & Ellen Houghton (1853-1922) from London Town (1883). "Have you a penny? Well then stay! Haven't you any? Don't go away!". #vintageillustrations #Childhood #Puppets #PuppetShow #Victoriana #vintageillustration #Children
In 1843, while delirious from imbibing laudanum, metapsychical artist & poet Blake William beheld a vision of an anglepoise lamp, which he immediately patented.
In punishment for his hubris the Celestial Illuminati Alliance transformed him into the constellation “The Tiger”.
James Bateman’s The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala ([1837]-1843) is described as the “largest botanical book ever produced with lithographic plates”. Learn more about this beautiful #RareBook on #orchids, available in #BHLib thanks to @mobotgarden: https://t.co/DasJSWfIYq
"Good-bye" [to London Town] as illustrated by Thomas Crane (1843–1903) & Ellen Houghton (1853-1922). English artists. Date: 1883. #vintageillustrations #nostalgia #Goodbye #childrensbookillustration #Travelling #London