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Dark & Stormy ... Three Ships in a Gale, Willem van de Welde, 1673 #seafever 18/365 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
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*Love* this gorgeous Squirrel Nutkin ring! Red squirrel with tufty ears & nibbling an acorn gold ring, c1500-1700, found near Ely, Cambridgeshire https://t.co/P0opdvaRTG
Wonder whose 💍 it was?
Starting to revise an article, with an R&R decision from the journal, but 🤯 since Reviewer 1 & Reviewer 2 both like/dislike different things & recommend contradictory & mutually exclusive changes? 😕🍷
These are lovely! By Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born naturalist & scientific illustrator, who travelled to Surinam & produced Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705) - here's butterflies, caterpillars & pomegranate + a citron fruit & bugs🦋🐛🦟🍋🍃
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Renaissance Monster with fangs, corkscrew curls & a bit cross-eyed ... stained glass fragment, c. 1550, part of a larger panel, with foliate decoration in grisaille and colour ... is he friend or fiend??? 👾https://t.co/5oUSOIcCOL
Hope @Sue_Jonze is having some of these somewhere nice ... 🥂 ... Aye Aye Captain ... ⚓️🏴☠️
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Fier cattes, with saddles of 'fierworke, filled with infernall fier' to be sent in war 'to fier the enemies campe, in Ralph Rabbard, Inventions of military machines and other devices, c1580-90, 65v-66r 🐈⬛🔥
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#Caturday
Utterly glorious #seafever c.18 Delft mural; inland vessels, coasters & frigate; Mercury, God of fcommerce, travellers, luck & Aeolus, keeper of winds. Dutch, painted by Adam Sijbel, prob. purchased by John Webbe Weston in 1784 & from Sutton Place, Surrey
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Wow, this c.17 #seafever Lüsterweibchen (chandelier) in the form of a crowned mermaid King is amazing! Wood & antler, S. German, 110 x 104 x 80 cm
https://t.co/HVAbLEq59c 🧜♂️👑
Mad March Hares for the 1st meterological day of Spring, c.1500, with 3 seated hares in a roundel; from a pack of 52 round playing-cards after Monogrammist PW 🐰🐰🐰https://t.co/rFXV6gheLW