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#AnimalsInChurchesHour #HairInChurches I'm equally smitten by Samson and the #TinyLion's terrific manes.
I doubt the dental examination is all that well appreciated, though the lion's bid to star in the next #TongueOutTuesday is there for us all to see. Bible 1445. @PosyHill1
#AnimalsInChurchesHour #HairInChurches I've saved this contribution until well after the watershed @chartres_Fiona
Here, a miniature of Delilah binding Samson to a bed. His lavish locks are evident. Bible, 1445. Manuscripts & Archives Division, The New York Public Library.
I'll have another serving of haughty #TinyLions please. In fact, let "self-satisfied" be the order of the day!
Creation of the animals
Bible, Germany c. 1445
New York Public Library, MA 104.
@WindowsLake @glassbasics The porch and adjacent dormer window at St Helen's looked beautiful in the crisp winter sunshine.
The South wall of the nave has a C17th timber-framed porch (restored C19th). Above is a C19th dormer with gable on carved brackets.
Hoping that you are having a fine day @deborahjvass - two favourite little birdies by Cicely Englefield.
The versatility of owls, much in evidence on this #OwlishMonday, courtesy of the CSM Museum & Study Collection.
Left, Minerva with owl, showing off a classical, elegant, vibe. By Celia Fiennes (1902 - 1998).
Right, 1958, delightfully dumpy down to Earth owl, by Roger Warren.
Artists' Christmas & New Year greetings; another in an erratic series! Two glorious examples here.
Left, wood engraving, Christmas Card 1957, by Dame Eileen Mayo.
Right, New Year card, 1949, by the same artist, a distinguished printmaker, painter and designer. @deborahjvass
It was watching @StroudStory's lecture on stained glass that revealed to me the wondrous work of Christopher Whitworth Whall.
To me, his students' pencil drawings of oak leaves are breathtakingly lovely . Nature studies for a stained glass design, 1910s, V & A. @deborahjvass
@PosyHill1 Just to refresh your memory, Posy, the 1st Mr December (each month merits 2 rugby players) had a remarkably polished bottom.
No #TinyLion was shocked by the displaying of this image in my "office".
Though Arthur Bonneval from Toulouse may be feeling the cold just a bit.
Faintly Unsettling Christmas Cards - an occasional series.
Bells are an uncontroversial choice, but these Bells have naked bellringers visible in the clapper of one bell. NAKED!
1933 Wood-engraving by Blair Hughes-Stanton, for the BBC. He married Gertrude Hermes in 1926.