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Another of our new works by Henry Holiday, a watercolour, "Sara, belle d'indolence," 1879. Dennis T. Lanigan calls it "an exercise in pure Aestheticism". Something of Walter Crane in it? https://t.co/4Mr9pgClNk

#Didyouknow there's an Edweard Muybridge conference coming up (sounds fun but you can attend online too)? It's free. Muybridge was a fascinating character & had such an impact. For details, see https://t.co/DxjmdFUvOn

#goodnight on #ChristmasEve! This was Mr Pickwick at Mr Wardle's Christmas Eve party, taking advantage of the mistletoe. In one version of this there's a cat for #caturday too!! https://t.co/W5e2kmReQp

"Carting Peat at Roshven," 1865, a watercolour by Jemima Blackburn. In her piece about Blackburn #catjeangolden talks of the "vivid and varying hues of green" here -- https://t.co/VxT5X1Ft6S

Garrulus Bispecularis—a kind of jay, looking slightly discombobulated—by Elizabeth Gould, wife of the ornithologist John Gould: "the barred speculum in the wing, where alternate stripes of light blue and black produce a chaste yet rich effect," etc. https://t.co/ThTga1k0dy.

#woodensday "Wood Elves at Play," Richard Doyle's design, in a wood engraving by Edmund Evans. How innocent is the "play" though—"as the semi-naked elves float through the undergrowth in a sensuous procession" (Simon Cooke)! https://t.co/Rhy8p9CThy

The future of our earth is in question—but its past is a conundrum too. Our Science ed @dianegreco co-authored a book about the Zodiac of Dendera, an ancient bas-relief temple ceiling carved with mysterious symbols of stars and planets—did it hold a clue? https://t.co/3JotKSmnxn

"Wet Weather," a watercolour by Mortimer Menpes (1901): he recalled the magic of his "first rainy day in #Japan... the forest of yellow oil-paper umbrellas with the light shining through looking like circles of gold" https://t.co/h909mg5LEa

"Building a haystack at Irine, Roshven" attributed to Jemima Blackburn, née Wedderburn (1823-1909), 1865. Blackburn is hardly remembered now but was well-known in her own age for her drawings & watercolors of birds, animals, & rural life. https://t.co/c3LO7PDQh5

#Saturday #Caturday How about this ginger puss, craning down and naughtily eyeing the goldfish in Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's watercolour, "The Gilded Apple"? Women and puss alike are eager for the prize, but it may not end well! https://t.co/OBvh66joPt