Mary Evans Picture Libraryさんのイラストまとめ

Exquisite watercolour of a kingfisher, painted by #JohnRuskin - art critic, artist, philanthropist, polymath - born #OTD 1819. Image part of the @AshmoleanMuseum collection represented at the library #ruskin200

Mary Queen of Scots, whose story is told on-screen in cinemas at the moment, was executed at Fotheringhay Castle #OTD in 1587, after her death warrant was signed by her cousin, Elizabeth I.

We thought we'd join in with #MapMonday, and found this gem in the archives. from circa 1910 - a map of Ladies and Gentleman's Clubs of the West End of London. Unattributed postcard from the Grenville Collins Postcard Collection @Mary_Evans

It's February and, looking out of the window, it doesn't look much better than January. But here's a lovely art nouveau design by Gaspar Camps to perk us all up.

Died #otd 1888, English Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author and poet, renowned today primarily for his limericks and his literary nonsense. Fabulous nonsense images from Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, c1875 edition. @Mary Evans Picture Library

It's #NationalStorytellingWeek this week, so if you're sitting comfortably.... A bearded old sea dog tells a wild and scary fisherman's tale: "Now when you chaps are listenin' I've got a yarn or two to spin." Postcard from Grenville Collins Postcard Collection @Mary_Evans

Next up - washing potatoes in a special hand-cranked rotary tumbler #FishnChipAwards 2/5

We see it's the #FishnChipAwards tonight so thought we should share this incredible set of photographs recently added to our site of a family-owned fish & chip shop in Morecambe & its processes from around 1901. 1st pic - peeling potatoes in the back yard (thread) 1/5

See, we've even got squirrels in blue dresses, therefore straddling both #BlueMonday and #SquirrelAppreciationDay Illustration by #MollyBrett in the Medici Society archive.

All of us here who've seen #TheFavourite at the cinema have loved it. Portraits of the real women in that rather strained love triangle - Queen Anne (from Drawing Room ceiling at Hampton Court via @HRP_palaces archive) + Abigail Masham + Sarah Churchill by Godfrey Kneller