Happy 200th Birthday! Lucile Grahn – the first to dance the title role in Bournonville's La Sylphide (when she was 16!) – was born 200 years ago today. In London, Perrot created ballets Eoline and Kaya for her in 1845 as well as the divertissement Pas de quatre.

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Man Proposes, God Disposes by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1864. The work was inspired by the search for Franklin's lost expedition which disappeared in the Arctic after 1845.

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Among the Crests of the Order of the Thistle on display at Biggar Museum until August 10th, is the "boar’s head couped Or, armed Argent and langued Gules" of John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell 9th Duke of Argyll KG KT GCMG GCVO PC (1845-1914).

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Fanco-Swiss artist Eugène Grasset , who was a pioneer in Art Nouveau, was born today in 1845.

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【マナ中毒者】 1845/1994
彼女は彼女なりにマナを止めようとはしているが、ストレスが溜まると、ついマナに手が伸びるらしい。

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Did you know stuffed giraffes used to greet visitors to the Museum?🦒

Natural history specimens were a large part of the Museum’s early collection. This 1845 image by George Scharf shows the staircase in Montagu House, the Museum’s former home

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Der Struwwelpeter (1845)
German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann

I vividly remember my Nan reading me these as a child and being scared of the guy with the massive scissors was going to leap out at me one night.

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今日は モフ
ロシアの研究員のメチニコフ博士の誕生日(1845年)にちなんで株式会社明治さんが記念日にしたモフ
メチニコフ博士はブルガリアに長寿者が多いこと、ヨーグルトに含まれる乳酸菌の関係性を突き止め免疫に関する研究によりノーベル生理学・医学賞を受賞したモフ

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みなさ~ん 今日は ですよ~







1845年5月15日、ヨーグルトを研究したロシアのイリヤ・メチニコフ博士の誕生日が由来です🙏✨✨

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Forget-me-not

From a series based on Flora’s Feast
Walter Crane (1845–1915)

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Flora's Feast: A Fairy's Festival of Flowers, 1889
by Walter Crane (English artist, 1845 - 1915)

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The Roll of Fate (1882) by Walter Crane (England, 1845-1915). 'Would that some winged angel ere too late Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate, And make the stern Recorder otherwise Enregister, or quite obliterate!'

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The 1st scientific description of the Mirror Dory Zenopsis nebulosus (Temminck & Schlegel 1845).
https://t.co/u0MyzEjmwu (digitised for by )

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I won't be able to post new work for a few months, so here are some of my older faves <3 Meet Captains Fitzjames and Crozier from the , painted after their 1845 daguerreotypes.

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The Roll of Fate (1882) by Walter Crane (1845-1915). English artist and book illustrator.

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A story in each landscapes, the painting of Albert Goodwin (1845-1932)

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Walter Crane (1845-1915)
The North Wind And The Robin

"The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow,
And what will the robin do then, poor thing,
He’ll sit in a barn, and keep himself warm,
And hide his head under his wing, poor thing."

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

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