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2022 seems to be going out wet & windy!

The English Ship Hampton Court in a Gale by Willem van de Velde the Younger, 1678-80.

Writer & poet Edgar Allan Poe died on this day October 7, 1849. His poem The Raven was first published in 1845. Dante Gabriel Rossetti did several pen-and-ink illustrations of the poem.

The Raven - Angel Footfalls by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1847.

'Mark', she said 'The men are here' - by John Everett Millais, 1861. The scene depicts Fanny Roberts telling her husband that the bailiffs are at the door. A scene from Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope.
https://t.co/flD9BR01Ru #OpenAccess

Relaxing with music. Boccaccio's Decameron - Garden Scene from the Introduction by Edward John Poynter, 1859.

What an image! All that food to be prepared and in the room behind right the prestine white tablecloth, waiting for guests... Death's table laid out for you? Let's not think of that, let's eat!
Preparations for a Feast
Netherlandish (Delft) School, c.1550-75.

Such a busy day today that I missed out on @artukdotorg's #OnlineArtExchange theme of trees.

You must always make time for trees!

Wind in the Tree Tops by Christopher Richard W Nevinson @BM_AG.

There's three! 😍
Designer A W N Pugin & manufacturer John Hardman & Co., Birmingham.
And you can now view and download them here https://t.co/ZnKuc3AtO3
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This gorgeous image is new to me, sharing my joy! Stained glass window and tracery, c. 1850. Designed by A W N Pugin and manufactured by John Hardman & Co., Birmingham.

"Inquire at London, ’mongst the taverns there,
For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,
With unrestrained loose companions"

Richard II, Act 5, Scene 3
#ShakespeareSunday 🍻

Image: Tavern Interior by Thomas Rowlandson, c.1810-1815.

O god, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
#ShakespeareSunday

Image: Alehouse Politicians by Thomas Rowlandson, 1785-1790.