Dr Anna Clark さんのイラストまとめ

Sir Joseph Banks, English botanist, naturalist & explorer, born #OTD 1743; President @royalsociety, Director @kewgardens, friend of Alexander von Humboldt, ‘father of Australia’, promoted international cooperation in science.
@NPGLondon @NMMGreenwich

“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's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published #OTD 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
@NPGLondon @YaleBritishArt

Mary Anning, Lyme Regis fossil collector, whose finds advanced palaeontology, born #OTD 1799.
@NHM_London @Museum_Cardiff @LymeRegisMuseum

Thomas Gainsborough, painter, master of the poetic landscape, baptised #OTD 1727.
@ngadc @NationalGallery
@GH_Sudbury

"He who would valiant be..." John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, first pub. #OTD 1678; later ill. by William Blake