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Can you spot what isn’t different?
Rossetti clearly loved this spiral hair ornament and gave it different models to wear. Apparently it was last heard of when borrowed by Charles Howell’s wife who never returned it….
#FolkloreThursday #art
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Walter Crane's Painting Book, 1889
After disappointments in his artistic career Walter Crane designed popular books introducing #art to children.
Here he gave a coloured plate of a fairy for children to paint. #FolkoreThursday
The Baleful Head – Edward Burne-Jones
Perseus carefully shows Andromeda the Medusa's head reflected in water - to keep her safe from its petrifying power.
Later he will use his trusty Gorgon's head to turn his enemy to stone. #FolkloreThursday
Hylas & the Nymphs - Waterhouse
The painting's hypnotic power in part comes from the uncanny similarity of the 7 nymphs - Waterhouse is thought to have used no more than two models. #FolkloreThursday
Illustrator Cicely Mary Barker was largely self-taught due to ill health.
Her Flower Fairies combined botanical sketches with characterful life drawings of local children.
Here her portrait of ‘The Garden Boy’ becomes the watchful Elm #Fairy
#FolkloreThursday
Woodland animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - Dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – Boar, sow, hoglet
Fox – Dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup
#FolkloreThursday
(🎨R Sheppard)
“Pimpernel, pimpernel, tell me true,
Whether the weather will be fine or no…”
The scarlet pimpernel is known as “the poor man’s weatherglass”.
It’s tiny red flowers open for sunny days and close for rainy days.
(🎨Cecily Mary Barker) #folklorethursday
The Baleful Head – Edward Burne-Jones
Perseus carefully shows Andromeda the vanquished Medusa's head, reflected in water to keep his bride safe from its petrifying power.
Later he will use his trusty Gorgon's head to turn his mother’s attacker to stone. #FolkloreThursday
The answer to this week's #riddle on #FolkloreThursday is:
Art-I-Choke
Hugely close top position this week (5 second margin)
1. @merryme300 🥇🏆
2. @MoseleyRecFair 🥈🏆
3. @TC148 🥉🏆
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