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"I almost die for food, and let me have it."
As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7
#ShakespeareSunday
Image: Preparations for a Feast, Netherlandish (Delft) School, c.1575-1625.
We're peeking into Birmingham's past via trade cards today!
John Hardman & Co, Birmingham, 1849
Elkington, Birmingham, 1846
Joseph Gillott, Birmingham, 1835
F & C Osler, Birmingham, 1855
Taken from a folio of watercolours of Midland landscapes by Elijah Walton: St Martin's Church, Birmingham by Night, 1850-1880. It looks like there were still some thatched roofs around back then! #mondaythoughts
One of our most popular images - you'll find the painting in our Round Gallery if you pay us a visit - The Travelling Companions, 1862 by Augustus Leopold Egg. A must for #EggDay!
Happy #StGeorgesDay! Here's The Story of St George and the Dragon, in stained glass, designed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and from the St George Series - St George slaying the Dragon by Edward Burne-Jones. For prints see https://t.co/Gub3FRfFgk
Landscape with cattle, sheep and a goat by Thomas Sidney Cooper, 1837. Enjoy the nature around you on #EarthDay.
"I am the way" by Henry James Holiday. 1885. One of the many wonderful designs for stained glass in the @BM_AG Birmingham collection.
Happy Friday! #FridayFeeling Today's image is from our collection of Pre-Raphaelite works on paper - Painter at Work, 1850-1852 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. https://t.co/Gub3FRfFgk
Beauty and the Beast (not looking very Beastly a this point!), tiles designed by Edward Burne-Jones in the @BM_AG collection.
In honour of #WalkingTheDogDay (although this is every day for most dog owners!) Dalston Road Acocks Green, 1994 by Arthur Lockwood. For prints go to: https://t.co/Gub3FRfFgk