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This is from one of the V&A's greatest treasures, an album of designs on paper for woven silk fabric. They are Europe's earliest dated silk designs, created by Huguenot master weaver and designer James Leman (1688-1745), a prominent member of the Spitalfields silk industry.
Crab, by Qi Baishi (1864-1957), a leading exponent of the Chinese freehand style of painting.
Detail of a mural in a Pompeii house, reconstructed in the National Archeological Museum at Naples.
I've just read "Fabulosa! The Story of Polari, Britains Secret Gay Language" and I was as surprised as the author, Paul Baker, to discover that there was a café in Stoke on Trent called The Polari Lounge.
@tonythorne007 @WIRED Sometimes clothes have to be adapted to what we're carrying.
Volební Plakát, poster for Czech Communist Party, 1928, Prague National Gallery. Plakát made many striking posters after the Communists came to power.
@samhwilson @Ned_Donovan "Had a bit too much to drink, have we, sir?"
Jean Carriés, another of the French artist potters of the 1890s. Originally a sculptor, he was a friend of John Singer Sergeant, who painted this handsome portrait of him.
@artinsociety The pictures in that link look like adverts for cosmetic dentistry. And certainly "not decorous": Vigée Lebrun was castigated for painting her teeth in this self portrait.