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For the last of the #ArchiveAdventCalendar
#Santa (he’s in there somewhere?) & #MerryChristmas
‘What I Saw After Eating my Xmas Pudding’
Alfred Crowquill, London Society Xmas No. 1867
Nadolig Llawen! Merry Christmas!
‘The Laplander's Song’ illus. by Johann Baptiste Zwecker, poem by Fans Michael Franzen published in Good Words, 1867. “As a wild reindeer with a tame one is paired, So am I bound, O maiden, to thee; With a cataract’s strength Thou conquerest me.” Ecky pecky #ArchiveAdventCalendar
For #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Goodwill 'The Good Samaritan' 1863, from John Everett Millais' The Parables of Our Lord series published in Good Words, 1864.
For the #ArchiveAdventCalendar some desolate window #Shopping 'The Toy Shop', illustration by Frederick Gilbert in London Society Xmas Number, 1870.
For #ArchiveAdventCalendar a falling #star or two in the angry heavens of Hans Brosamer's Apocalypse, woodcut, c.1550. (Over to the left, by the evil moon.)
In @AberArtSchool Collections.
For #MuseumsUnlocked #neolithic Stonehenge, a woodcut by Tokyo-born Yoshijiro Urushibara, aka 'Mokuchū' (1888-1953). He worked in the UK, France, USA and was an important influence on the development of the colour woodcut in UK art schools in the 1920s. @AberArtSchool colls.
For #MuseumsUnlocked #QueenVictoria Illustrations by Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828-1907) for 'The Queen's Journal' published in the Leisure Hour, April/May, 1868 in @AberArtSchool collections. See a pdf of the journal extract here:
https://t.co/KskYIe8NVr
Our #Museummask for #museummaskday sported by a perpetually wistful Roman Youth, watercolour by Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), bequeathed to @AberArtSchool @AberUni by the artist's friend and patron George E.J Powell in 1882
Ar gyfer/For #MuseumsUnlocked #performance
John Vivian Roberts (1923-2003)
'Backstage, Bertram Mill Circus', 1949
ysgythriad/etching.
Grant prynu/purchase grant: V & A, 2002
Casgliad/Collection: @AberArtSchool
© the artist's estate.
‘Sitting among the daisies was a plump, elderly gentleman’ For #MuseumsUnlocked an original drawing by Keith Vaughan for illus. on p.12 of P. H. Newby's The Spirit of Jem, a children's adventure story, published by John Lehmann in 1947. Purchase c/o @V_and_A grant @AberArtSchool