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The #willow grows near water & is sacred to the moon. It is linked to letting go of grief. #FolkloreThursday. Image: Cicely Barker #1920s
Sidney Paget, the original #SherlockHolmes #illustrator for #TheStrandMagazine, was born on 4th Oct 1860. #ConanDoyle #Victorian #birthday
Christopher Robin Reading to
#WinnieThePooh & Friends.
#Illustration by EH Shepard.
#ReadABookDay
An undine is a water nymph who gains a soul when she marries a human, but will die if he is unfaithful to her. #FolkloreThursday #Rackham
#HappyBirthday #EmilyBronte, born on 30th July 1818 in #Yorkshire. Seen here with Anne & Charlotte, as painted by their brother Branwell.
#HappyBirthday #BeatrixPotter, born 28th July 1866 in #Kensington #London.
#English #writer & #illustrator for #children, & #wildlife lover.
#Bluebells summon #faeries when rung, trap unwary small children, & a carpet of them is full of dark #enchantment & death
#FolkLoreThursday
#Caravaggio,
Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy,
#painted 1606.
#Easter #Triduum #Artlovers
#religious #arte #twitart #EasterWeekend
#WalterCrane's #illustrations
for his children's #book
Song of Sixpence,1909.
#GoldenAge #Edwardian #nurseryrhyme
#BritishPieWeek
The Chess Players,
John Lavery,1929.
#British #painter #Impressionism @Tate
#Artlovers #twitart #arte
#1920s #painting #BoxingDay