British Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

Hey, @BLprintheritage, show us your best Chaucer.

This famous portrait is found in a manuscript of Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes. It’s online here:

Harley MS 4866, f. 88r
https://t.co/1QuQJbqtXv

Our Windrush Stories website digs deeper into the ongoing, complex relationship between Britain and the Caribbean – a story that didn’t start or end with the arrival of the Empire Windrush in Essex https://t.co/wjZDoRP6xj

#WindrushDay

Here's our brand new activity pack inspired by #DiscoveringChildrensBooks, illustrated by Viviane Schwarz. We’re sharing printed copies with communities across the UK to reach children who don't have access to screens. Download and print here: https://t.co/n2rKb1YERU @vivschwarz

Romeo and Juliet, wildly in love, but were they really well-matched?

Which famous figures from literature would you pair up and why?

Img: Shelfmark 11765.s.5 (cropped)

Us for the next week...

Shelfmark Z.C.9.d.560

The final image to caption is this wonder.

Sophie: “Les Roses” was made by stipple engraving and finished by hand-coloring - not always by Redoute himself; this was very much a team work.
Stipple engraving uses dots of various sizes to create tone in an intaglio print. #AskaCurator @leusavage

Sir John Soane, who turned his home in Lincoln Fields into a unique house-museum, was born #onthisday in 1753. This compilation of texts and nearly 100 unique pencil and watercolour drawings reveal how Soane's museum evolved https://t.co/n4iEiK0kkB

A sneak peek from our upcoming Writing: #MakingYourMark exhibition - these notes were written by Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh while imprisoned in the Tower of London. They were for his book, History of the World: https://t.co/2lJkMPYywB #NationalHandwritingDay

*KLAXON*

It's #PenguinAwarenessDay and as such, today we shall mostly be perusing our collection for penguins.

Lots and lots of penguins.