Three generations of Sowerbys contributed to "Thesaurus conchyliorum" (1847-87), one of the rarest of all conchology books. It includes over 500 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates. Find it in via ➡️ https://t.co/0j9WH3CQff 🐚

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Week 2 (but actually week 5)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (1847)
The Count meets Dr Van Helsing

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Frits Thaulow (1847–1906)

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BOOK COVERS Dracula (1897). Gothic horror novel by Irish author, Bram Stoker (1847-1912). “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”

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Cats and Canvas, Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)

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Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926), was a Danish painter of German ancestry, the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her paintings, I find, have a great emotional power. She died suddenly while at work in her studio.

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Grandville was a French caricaturist with an eye for the unnatural & absurd. The Flowers Personified (1847) shows a fantasy world peopled by flowers & humanised insects. His disquieting images are recognised as an inspiration to the surrealist movement.

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By Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)

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Les fleurs animées. Botanique des dames (1847), T. Delord, Comte Foelix, illustrateur Grandville (1803-1847)
Bibliothèques de Nancy

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Two horses by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915)

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Night landscape by Giuseppe Canella (1788–1847)

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弘化4年(1847)市村座上演・五十三次物の狂言『尾上梅寿一代噺』の登場人物、五代目宗十郎演じる白柄十右衛門(しらつかじゅうえもん)。髑髏をあしらった着物が最強オシャレでかっこいい。好き💀❣️襦袢の柄も髑髏なのがまたイイ。
歌川国芳『五代目沢村宗十郎の白柄十右ェ門』ヨリ

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los Linda historia inventada.

Hoy se conmemora la defensa del castillo de Chapultepec ante las tropas americanas en 1847

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Grandville, né Jean Ignace Gérard (13/09/1803-17/03/1847) est un caricaturiste, illustrateur et lithographe français.
Les Fleurs animées, 1846-47 : Marguerite. Narcisse.

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Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847-1906) :
- Les Étoiles du Matin (1887)

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FLOWERS PERSONIFIED 2. Victorians merged the laws of propriety with the language of flowers; nun-like Water Lily, or Nenuphar; sleep/death inducing precocious Poppy or Pavot, shrinking Violet or Violette from J.J Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées, 1847

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More than 100 digitally enhanced, hi-res, and totally free to re-use floral images from Edwards's Botanical Register (1829–1847) — courtesy of : https://t.co/Z6hBKg2WFn

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