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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.

James Cook's voyage became the first to cross the Antarctic Circle #onthisday in 1773. These stunning drawings by William Hodges, held at @statelibrarynsw, depict the ships Resolution and Adventure among icebergs. https://t.co/J6CCzAE7cQ

Five years. One million images. 769,444,739 views. #otd in 2013 we released images from thousands of 17th, 18th and 19th-century books onto Flickr for anyone to use, remix and repurpose. Let us know what you've been creating with them! https://t.co/PeSbf07q45

#Didyouknow Cook's voyage went as far south as the Antarctic? These drawings by expedition artists Georg Forster and William Hodges are the first depictions of a then completely unknown part of the world. #BLCookVoyages (Loaned from Mitchell Library, @statelibrarynsw)

It’s the last day of #ColorOurCollections week, and if you haven’t worn out your pencils yet, why not give it one last go this weekend? Happy colouring! https://t.co/l2YucqTxHm