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Édouard Manet #botd 1832 witnessed the end of the Franco-Prussian War, known as the Siege of Paris.
This print places us at the aftermath of barricaded street violence, a large-scale depiction of something and nothing: bodies, rubble and dust.
On show in ‘Bearing Witness’
Go wild with some of the tigers from our collection for #InternationalTigerDay2022 🐯🐅
Let us know your favourite! 👇
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Enter with your photographs (portrait/vertical only) of clouds, the sky, sunrises, sunsets, rooftops and skylines! ☁
Explore our 'Skies and Effects' section in #TrueToNature for some inspiration: https://t.co/MJoO9NOk62
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Chasing Volcanoes🌋
Join us for a hybrid lunchtime talk with Clive Oppenheimer, Professor of Volcanology @Cambridge_Uni @CamUniGeography,
& contributor to #TrueToNature.
📅Wed 29 June, 13:15-14:00
📍 Fitzwilliam Museum + Zoom
🎟 £5 (free for students) https://t.co/nSUZykymWu
'...and then I saw something which filled my very soul with horror.'
🧛Jonathan Harker discovers that his mysterious host is a vampire!
⛵ Mina Murray, Harker's fiancé, meets Lucy Westenra in Whitby. Lucy is later turned into a vampire.
#Dracula125
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‘There was no reflection of him in the mirror!’ 🧛
We’re celebrating the 125th anniversary of Bram Stoker’s #Dracula 🦇 with this spooky thread of illustrations by Felix Hoffmann for a limited edition published in 1965:
🧛♀️Jonathan Harker meets Count Dracula.
#Dracula125
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It’s medals day @The_RHS #RHSChelsea we’re going for 🥇showcasing one of the most important botanical collections of art in the world to celebrate the world’s greatest flower show 🌸🌷🌳🌼🌹
Which floral display gets your vote ?
Do you want to learn more about #TruetoNature? 🍃
Join us for an evening panel talk with the exhibition collaborators!
📍The Fitzwilliam Museum
📅 Tuesday 17 May, 18:00 - 19:30
Tickets 🎟 £5 (free for students!) https://t.co/JGGLP9maKA
Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese artist and printmaker, died #OnThisDay in 1849.
Just after his 'Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji' series, Hokusai produced a set of ten prints, 'Large Flowers.' Some of these featured a ‘crawling creature’ (mushi, in Japanese).
Can you spot it?🔍👀
These four sky studies from a private collection are exhibited for the first time in #TruetoNature
They show the influence that the light and colours of North Africa had on Johann Jakob Frey Basel (1813 –65)
He captured atmospheric effects in a luminous palette of 🟣🟡 & 💕☁️