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1789 design for the curtain of the Court Theatre at Hanover, Apollo with the dramatic Muses https://t.co/GlDxisin6K #WorldTheatreDay
Does anyone know more about this drawing? 'intended probably for the Winnats or Windgates, in the approach to Castleton from Chapel in the Frith, being the entrance to Hope Dale'? https://t.co/8dNIwYP3Hy
Things could be worse - this is 'A Cock with 3 Leggs and 2 arses & by both he dungeth'. Add MS 5220
This atmospheric 18thc watercolour shows the Seven Churches at Glendalough in Wicklow, Ireland, with worshipers processing by the light of torches for Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve. (What's going on on the right?) https://t.co/Ooye724KOL #Christmas
It's #GWRDay 2018 - does @britishlibrary deserve a Guiness World Record for the most prints and drawings in a public collection?
Topographical 'art' in the library?: this "categorisation has led to paintings being essentially invisible, and when found still perceived as insignificant, one among many in crowded albums which can overwhelm rather than delight": https://t.co/PDnS41wT95 #PicturingPlaces
'At their best, Trollope and Millais show just what impressive effects word and image can create when working together in the medium of the illustrated novel', David Skilton, Anthony Trollope and illustration: https://t.co/Bxd5Igi6aa
Artists have illustrated John Milton’s Paradise Lost more than any other poem in the history of English literature. This large and lavish copy, published by Jacob Tonson in 1688, was the first edition to include illustrations: https://t.co/46zCr5tvUX #ThursdayThoughts