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#GlobalHandwashingDay has never been more important
#WashYourHands 🧼
Dante Gabriel Rossetti shows us how, Washing Hands 1865
This evening is Yom Kippur also known as the Day of Atonement, it is the holiest day of the year in Judaism and completes the High Holy Days that commences with Rosh Hashanah.
Jews in the synagogue. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). Etching, 1648. #YomKippur
Tonight is #RoshHashanah the start of the #jewishnewyear
Eating symbolic foods is a tradition, such as apples dipped in honey, hoping to evoke a sweet new year. 🍎
Apple. Album containing a dedicatory sonnet and 48 drawings. Pinet, Antoine du (French, c. 1584).
We have acquired three important paintings:
two delightfully solemn portraits of young boys by the Dutch artist, Adriaen van Ostade (1610-85), and an imaginary Italianate coastal view by the Venetian painter, Francesco Guardi (1712-93) 👇
@ChristiesInc @DCMSArts @ace_national
@Railok Last one we promise, 😂Rebecca Virag from Prints replied, One of Gillray's hand-coloured satires: Presages of the Millenium or Midas transmuting all into gold paper.. both here below; again very 💡sensitive..
#WorldWatercolorMonth #gouache
These 17th Century, French flower studies are from an album containing 62 botanical drawings with gilt-edged pages. 🌷🌸🌺
Attributed to Nicolas Robert, watercolour and bodycolour on vellum, (French, 1614-1685).
#InsectWeek
In 1832, when Hokusai made this print, frogs and other amphibians were considered insects in Japan.
Convolvulus and Tree-frog. Ukiyo-e. Hokusai, Katsushika. Colour print from woodblocks, 1832.
#FitzVirtual #Hokusai #Ukioye
Today we're joining @artukdotorg #OnlineArtExchange for skyscapes & clouds ☁️ we're hoping they'll brighten up later on🌤️ 🤞
Sky study with a shaft of sunlight. John Constable (British, 1776-1837). Oil on paper, 1822.
#WorldEnvironmentDay2020 #ForNature #TimeForNature
John James Audubon, Birds of America, (1827-1838) Columbian hummingbirds with Virginia saltmarsh mallow hibiscus virginicus. 🌺🌺
#Fitzvirtual #MuseumFromHome
#LookThinkDo
In 1820, the man behind this stunningly realistic print 🦩, John James Audubon, set off across America to paint every bird he found.
Follow the link https://t.co/EGUwSQgsZz and keep minds trained in lockdown
#FitzVirtual #FitzWFH #MuseumFromHome #VirtualMuseum