officially begins today in the Northern Hemisphere with the vernal equinox. ☀️ 🌱 💐

To celebrate, we’re sharing a sweet image from our ephemera collection, from a of the for 1889.

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is the birthday of Irish stained-glass artist 🇮🇪 He was born in 1889. His gorgeous stained glass windows can be seen in many buildings around Ireland and overseas including the Geneva Window now housed Florida

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Elizabeth Forbes
Canadian artist Elizabeth Armstrong married Forbes in 1889. She was a superb artist in her own right. The couple established the Forbes School of Painting and Drawing in 1899 which ran until 1940.


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Alexis-Joseph Mazerolle.1826-1889. Study for a dying slave.

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A demon as a mendicant monk, Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1850 - 1889. Rijks Museum (AK-RAK-2000-14). https://t.co/djOdt0vw47.

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Paul Helleu dibujando, con su esposa, 1889. Museo Brooklyn, Nueva York. John Singer Sargent

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Today in Comics History: R.F. Outcault, the creator of the Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (and a seminal figure in American cartooning, both creatively and from a business standpoint), was born on January 14, 1863. (RFO was born “Outcalt” and added the “u” in 1889.)

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Alice Havers, 'But Mary Kept all these Things and Pondered them in her Heart', c.1888.

Havers (1850-90), who was originally from Norfolk, exhibited this intense and affectionate portrayal of motherhood at the Royal Academy in 1888 and the Paris Salon in 1889.

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A crow with a halo, 1889.

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6 December 1889. Jefferson Davis died (aged 81). He was the first and only president of the US Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a Democrat, he had represented Mississippi in the US Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War began.

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jimin and jungkook as starry night by vincent van gogh, 1889.

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Long before adult colouring books Walter Crane designed this children’s Painting Book, 1889. Disappointed in his artistic career he became the ‘academician of the nursery’. Here he gave a blank & a coloured plate for children to work from.

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Ending the week with 'Sous l'oranger' (Under the Orange Tree) by Berthe Morisot from 1889.

Berthe Morisot is one of my favourite artists of all time and she is such a fascinating artist when we look at the Impressionist movement as a whole. In fact… https://t.co/0rYOs0ii9u

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Don't you just love Marie Spartali Stillman's artwork? Here's her "The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo," 1889.

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