Dr Anna Clark さんのイラストまとめ

“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
@NPGLondon @CowpNewtMuseum

Professor Oliver Rackham, botanist & ecologist @Cambridge_Uni, whose History of the Countryside influenced a generation, born #OTD 1939.

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, influential Pre-Raphaelite artist & designer, associate of William Morris, born #OTD 1833.
@Tate @LeverArtGallery

Master of the poetic landscape: Thomas Gainsborough, English artist, baptised #OTD 1727.
@ngadc @NationalGallery @GH_Sudbury

“I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.”
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity; died #OTD 1751.
@FoundlingMuseum

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”
Jane Austen, English novelist, born #OTD 1775.
@britishlibrary @tomgauld

“Who would true valour see...”
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, prob. born #OTD 1628.
First published 1678; later illustrated by William Blake.
@frickcollection #BedfordshireDay @JBunyanMuseum

“Digressions, incontestably...are the life, the soul of reading...”
Laurence Sterne, whimsical Irish clergyman & author of The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, born #OTD 1713.
@NPGLondon @LSterneTrust

“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife...”
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, died #OTD 1771; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
@strawbhillhouse @YaleBritishArt @Cambridge_Uni

Sir Peter Paul Rubens, great Flemish Baroque painter, humanist scholar & diplomat, knighted by Charles I, born #OTD 1577.
Royal Collection @RCT / @NationalGallery / @AlbertinaMuseum