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‘Blue mountain lowry’ and a ‘superb lyrebird’ that is very superb indeed! #WorldWatercolourMonth @RM_Rowe
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I love these pretty little birds! Sulphur crested cockatoo and spinebill honeyeaters, from a collection of watercolour bookmarks sold by John Sands of Sydney, printers and booksellers. #WorldWatercolourMonth @RM_Rowe
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One of my favourite images from @theULSpecColl. Beautiful eighteenth-century painting of Japanese poet Ono no Komachi beneath a cloud of her words. #NationalWritingDay
Nine, ten, a big fat hen …
‘Afternoon tea: rhymes for children’, illustrated by J. G. Sowerby & H. H. Emerson [1881?]. Waddleton.b.9.1300 @theUL
A very jolly dog from the Hours of Alice de Reydon @theUL. I love how the detailed catalogue record on @CamDigLib let’s you click straight through to all the illustrations. https://t.co/E17xUwX4Mj
The antelope hasn’t noticed this cheeky sloth sneaking up behind. ‘Encyclopaedia Britannica’ is 250 years old today, but this is from my family copy of the younger and rarer ‘Imperial Encyclopaedia’, first published in 1812.