Otto Saumarez Smithさんのイラストまとめ

I particularly advise the wonderfully illustrated article 'Tunnels in Arcadia' about the portal designs on the Great Western Railway: https://t.co/gbT0wmaHqY

Alan Sorrell's drawing of Southampton Dock, 1944.

I've been teaching a class on representations of the North of England in the 1930s - & had never seen these beautiful collages by Julian Trevelyan of Bolton (1937-8), done as part of Mass Observation.

Newspaper perfectly captures the scruffy dereliction of industrial wastelands.

Fascinating painting of the seemingly chaotic building of Versailles (c.1680), giving an insight into an early modern construction site. Details include wheel-driven cranes, on-site carving, and mixing mortar in a hole.

Me & my to-do list.

@John_S_Phipps Okay, but he really knows what a robin, tin funnel & ice skates look like; I’m convinced he’s looked at them - the weirdness is only in amalgamation of dull minutiae.

This unprecedented tondo of a tramp shows he is deeply concerned with the everyday. It gives the fantasy weight.

@FionaOrsini It is in a booklet you have in storage at the V&A. :) Presumably by Gwynne? Here is the set:

@urbaninsideout Here is the bar: 🍸

MacDonald Gill's charming 1937 map showing the locations of the GPO's network of radio masts:

Claude Parent drawings of nuclear power stations imagining cooling towers in landscape 🏞️☢️