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I am waiting for this 1958 die-cut christmas card to plop through my letterbox. It's from the collection @cooperhewitt and looks very like an Alexander Girard dove design, although it is not listed as such.
A new Twitter feed for museum jobs @museumjobsuk
And a 1954 @sciencemuseum booklet.
With all that fuss about the new Austen adaptation, I'm going back to the classics.*
* See gratuitous GIF
@ianarchiebeck @AlbertGalera @annesebba @Digifem @AmieMyselfandI @is_cam_24 @mooseandmouse @MolesDanceMouse @gardener_the @coxojil @kcicero @ClareDChambers @LauraCummingArt @DannyVanBooks @almabooks @AndreaTromans1 @KirkdaleBooks @DFB_storyhouse @phoenixcomicuk @Edmund_Dulac Thanks Ian. I feel like the dog that got the bone.
I have a decided weakness for children’s cook book illustrations. This is from ‘Let’s have a party’, 1946 drawn by Emil Weiss, a Czech émigré who came to Britain in 1938. His is an interesting story https://t.co/FSMoS9cG06 and the book is full of his lovely, lively drawings.
A perky 1950s advert for Dutch Buisman’s roasted sugar or coffee syrup. Seemingly made from roasted, caramelised corn syrup and molasses, it 'improved’ the taste of coffee. It sounds like a forerunner of all those Starbucks coffee syrups. And explains why she is so perky.
I have said it before and I'll say it again, I like small domestic items. And I like illustrations of them too. This is by Eric Ravilious, titled: Kettle, Teapot, Breadboard, Matches for Dunbar Hay Ltd, a shop that opened on Albemarle Street, London in 1936. @FryArtGallery
From Twitter friends I now have more than 35 suggestions for new (to me) manga and graphic novels. Roll on Autumn reading. Thank you all.
Dick Bruna. Always. Het kookboek van mevrouw Maigret by Robert Courtine, 1980.