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Take your cue from Sairey Gamp ("the greatest of all Dickens's great creations," according to the back of this cigarette csrd). You definitely need to carry your umbrella at all times this May! https://t.co/4P3nRxJXIo
#Didyouknow that #Millais and #Trollope were friends, & that Millais made 87 illustrations for Trollope's work— "and I do not think that more conscientious work was ever done by a man," said Trollope. Here is his illustration of the Crawley family https://t.co/93ui9Mpyvj
#Did you kow that Jemima Blackburn (1823-1909) was a popular illustrator of bird and animal life? This is a hand-coloured illustration of a redwing. Interesting life, too (by @catjeangolden)! #womensart https://t.co/257hE0hOrc
The Treaty of Paris was ratified #OTD 1856: the Crimean War was over; peace was proclaimed. John Bell's Crimean War Memorial off Pall Mall remembers some of those who died—& in front of it stands Florence Nightingale, who helped to save some of the rest. https://t.co/kv6thzrej0
#AprilAngels This one's by Anna Lea-Merritt (1844-1930) in St Martin's, Blackheath, Surrey—using Keim silicate mineral paint from Germany, one of the earliest uses of it here in UK. Completed in 1895 & has lasted so well! https://t.co/GUXR8a65v8 #womensart
#goodmorning on #FolkloreThursday This is Richard Doyle's "Water-Lilies and Water Fairies." What does this sort of thing say about the Victorian psyche? Simon Cooke finds something "curiously disturbing" in it! See https://t.co/J0IefzSZde
One of the last exhibitions before lockdown, "Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company"—thank goodness (and @DalrympleWill) that it was so memorable! https://t.co/tdqn23WNze
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#goodmorning with Edward Lear's "The Cedars of Lebanon": "The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted" (Psalm 104, sung at Prince Philip's funeral yesterday, as he had wished) https://t.co/XDWgKIFxfQ
Another for #ironworkThursday, before it's too late! This powerful scene is of Lymington Ironworks on the Tyne, c. 1835, by Thomas Allom https://t.co/t3Lxkf1XPN
Wishing Happy #Passover2021 to all ourJewish followers and readers, and their families, knowing you'll all be together in spirit if not in person. This is #Rossetti's watercolour, "Passover in the Holy Family: Gathering Bitter Herbs," 1855-56. https://t.co/gZa8CE9syr