Fitzwilliam Museumさんのイラストまとめ

We're here to brighten your feed on this grey #Monday 🌧

September birthday? 🎂 You have three beautiful birth flowers to choose from!💐

Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to see these beautiful objects, previously hidden from view for over 2,700 years, that uncover so much about the Saka people. #SakaGold

Gold of the Great Steppe opens 28th Sept! Book your tickets now ✨🎟https://t.co/h6MFINMHTP

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The Saka people were expert equestrians 🐴 often taking their beloved horses with them to the grave and the afterlife beyond, dressed in elaborate burial outfits.

Drawing reconstruction of horse in full riding tack.
Around 500-300 BC.
#SakaGold

Edward Burn-Jones, British artist and designer, was born #onthisday in 1833.
His watercolour design for a grand piano (1879-80) depicts the final moments of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus, leading his beloved wife out of the Underworld, is about to lose her forever.

Hands up if your birthday was in #August🙋
The gladiolus and poppy are your birth flowers💐aren't they beautiful?😍

🔍Gladiolus segetum (or byzantinus) attributed to Nicolas Robert.
🔍L. Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium). R. Poppy. 1750.

Pop into the thread for a surprise 👀⬇️

Have you seen 'Virtue, Vice & the Senses: Prints 1540-1600' yet?

The exhibition explores the spread and development of prints✍️representing abstract qualities such as the five senses, seven virtues and deadly sins.

Summer☀️by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644.

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...and relax 💤🌸

Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians used jasmine oil to aid with sleep quality? 🛌 Lavender oil also has a long history with aromatherapy, aiding with calmness and relaxation😴

Jasmine by Johann Christoph Bayer
Lavender from @davidparrhouse

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Rosehips, the fruit of the rose plant,🌹are packed full of vitamins and nutrients. Their natural oils nourish and repair the skin, making them an effective anti ageing ingredient! 💆

Rosehip by Joseph von Plenck
@DavidParrHouse Orange Rose ‘Dad’s Delight’

What a lovely story @davidparrhouse❤️
Our final rose is the Rosa canina by botanist, physician and pioneering dermatologist Joseph Jakob von Plenck.

It is called the dog rose because in classical times its root was thought to cure the bite of a mad dog!
🔍c. 1765-1800 https://t.co/1yFvmONxCO

Funny you say that @davidparrhouse because up next is our Rosa damascena versicolor, also known as the York and Lancaster rose!🌹

Did you know it takes ten to twelve tonnes of flowers to produce one kilo of essential rose oils?

🔍C. M. Bucher, 19th c. https://t.co/WOPokTg5Py