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A formidable entry for #TongueOutTuesday. This is a wonderful manuscript for expressive faces, particularly eyes!
British Library, Royal MS 10 E IV
c 1300-c 1340, The Decretals of Gregory IX
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#WorldBookDay2020 Celebrating Kathleen Hale & "Orlando the Marmalade Cat". Her illustrations are glorious. Ginger tabbies are the best!
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#MementoMoriMonday Oh my word! I can only assume that the winds shown blowing on this map were extremely dangerous to sailors.
Universal cosmography, according to both ancient & modern navigators / by Guillaume Le Testu. (1555) 💀https://t.co/y7Af1sDW08 @pacoulmag @red_loeb
Eileen Mayo. "New Year" wood engraving, 1949.
Nature was the predominant theme in Eileen Mayo’s work throughout her distinguished career as a printmaker, painter and designer. She was fascinated by the variety of forms and shapes of plants.
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*Swoon* Here's a darkly gorgeous #TinyLion. What a mane, what a magnetic gaze!
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Paris, Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 1029, f.127v.
Though the chill of Autumn & Winter be felt, the heartening handful of pink rose blooms I saw yesterday at Greys Court remind me that Spring will return.
Evocative seasonal portraits by Olga Lehmann 1912 - 2001; from the Fry Gallery.
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Thanks to @365posterblog1 - I was prompted to seek out two beautiful textile designs by Claud Lovat Fraser. 1918, V & A; indian ink, ink, watercolour, bodycolour and pencil.
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I can really understand you liking this artist's work. @deborahjvass
Her robin portraits, especially the youngsters, are as light as a feather.
Artist: Mildred Eldridge (British, 1909–1991)
Title: Studies of robins (pair), 1977
Medium: pencil & watercolor
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To celebrate the day with @AnneLouiseAvery.🦊
Some superb fox (1941) & cubs (1936) wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker @deborahjvass @cox_tom 🦊
"Fox Cubs" was one of 73 wood engravings used in H.E. Bates’ "Through The Woods: The English Woodland – April to April" (1936).
Edouard Benedictus - unnoticed until I looked at my V & A Art Deco calendar yesterday; now very much a visual treat. I wasn't sure that geometric roses were a possibility even, but it seems that they very much are! He became one the most famous artists of the floral Art Deco.