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👀Spot today's #FridayFish in this watercolour depicting occupations of South India (c.1828) 🎣
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My main project has been working on preparing the Evanion collection for display online. Henry Evanion (1832-1905) was a 19th-century conjuror, entertainer & avid collector of ephemera.
📷 Evan.2587. @BLprintheritage https://t.co/dZdF2D4Qhq
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🎄We're taking a break over Christmas; happy holidays all, take care and stay safe.
🐦Here's a cheery robin from 'British Ornithology; being the history, with a coloured representation of every known species of British birds', 1754-1839
https://t.co/AUPB5gCHe4
#Robin #birdlovers
Get into the party spirit!
The Coming of Father Christmas by Eliza Manning (1894)
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Sadly the play culminates, as the real life scandal did, with Elokeshī's death at the hands of her husband. This play casts the husband in a sympathetic light, sidestepping any real probing into the state of contemporary Bengali society, by shifting blame onto the stepmother.
It's been a while, but came across a fabulous #FridayFish and other marvellous sea creatures, to feast your eyes upon! 🐟🦀🐙
The British Miscellany, 1806, Digital Store 990.i.3.
Fully available online in #IIIF & low res download!
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We could go on! But to finish, I'll leave you with this wonderful #Japanese volume of pattern designs featuring crane birds 🪶🪶
Tennen hyakkaku (天年百寉): https://t.co/BvxJe72aNM #BLJapanese #FavouriteItem #Archive30
4/5 Next up, "The Christ child who comes" illustration from 'A Christmas Carol', 1890. Fully digitised and available online in #IIIF via our #UniversalViewer
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🎶On the eighth day of Christmas, we bring to you eight dancing children!🎶
From E F Manning's The Coming of Father Christmas, in @universalviewer https://t.co/7WJeTO8x2N
#12DaysOfChristmas #BLIsOpen #LetsGetDigital
Check out the newly available musical autograph album of Eliza Wesley. Collected in London in 1836-1895, it contains short pieces, inscriptions and signatures of composers, musicians, singers and writers (including Charles Dickens!).
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