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‘O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.’ The Stolen Child, Yeats. 🖼 Rackham #BookWormSat
A Roman fresco from a fullonica - a dyer's shop in Pompeii. One man is brushing wool. The man under the cage is fabric whitening. The owl on the cage represents Athena who was a protector of the lanaiuoli - companies of wool merchants. #OwlishMonday 🦉
Illustration of Mrs. Tittlemouse from The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, Beatrix Potter, 1910.