Victorian Webさんのイラストまとめ

Hard times, eh? In 1860, Charles Keene, best known for his @PunchCartoons, took a boating holiday with an artist friend, and it seems to have been a bit more challenging than he expected! Here's his "A Rough Passage" https://t.co/2Z0sHvZH5q

Too gloomy, but #OTD 1837, #Dickens's beloved sister-in-law, Mary Hogarth, "that spirit which directs my life" (& inspired a number of his characters) died in his arms https://t.co/DRQZYSmUSi

#WednesdayWisdom "There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse & sell a little cheaper, & the people who consider price alone are that person's lawful prey" (attributed to #Ruskin... but our webmaster has his doubts! https://t.co/e8OaiDdKS5

For anyone longing to hug one of these when finally allowed: Thomas Cooper Gotch's "Little Boo" (1887)https://t.co/hOMg6qSp65

Nice to see baby robins now. This is Francis Orpen Morris's "Redbreast's Nest" from his pioneering "Natural History of the Eggs and Nests of British Birds" (1853-56). "Nidification (i.e. nest-building!) commences very early in the spring," he tells us. https://t.co/ixXxaSBXDm

This is such a spontaneous-looking watercolour. You can just see the scene: Mary Physick, the Artist's Step-sister, by John William Waterhouse c. 1880 (only 6"x5") https://t.co/mwgCvc8Ra6

From Frank Holl's "Hope," 1883. A mother looks out of the window hoping for her husband's return (painted in Criccieth, a Welsh seaside town; he'd have been a fisherman). The daughter's face is so expressive. https://t.co/0oJpYZjiIO

#goodnight, and be of good cheer. This too will pass! This is Robert Anning Bell's "Sleeping Child Flanked by Angels" https://t.co/9CIiv0k4Sk

"The Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Kensington" by James Ward (1769-1859). The surprise here is the place! It must be early 19c. Ward was admired for his animal paintings. The horses are perhaps straining to pull a grindstone (?). https://t.co/zK0DfhzYoV

Some of the very many #InternationalWomensDay -- can you recognise them?