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🌹 A beautiful pair of roses from our collection!

Pierre Joseph Redoute’s celebrated work ‘Les roses’ was published in Paris in 3 volumes between 1817 and 1824.

👀 See a selection of digitised illustrations: https://t.co/5blpkUtlog

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2021-04-30

Today is & the birthday of John James Audubon so we simply could not resist tweeting Audubon's illustration of a flamingo in 'Birds of America' digitised : https://t.co/9IX487zSXC

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2021-04-27

A whimsical from the collection for ✨'Simpson's book of kitchen magic', published c 1933.

Read the digitised book here: https://t.co/k6fuWtAaKx

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2021-04-23

Hot off the DOI press: every species description in "A specimen of the Botany of New Holland", the first published book on the flora of Australia (1793-5), now has a DOI & is thus persistently discoverable, citable & trackable (📗 digitised for by )

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2021-04-18

I am thrilled to announce the 1790 "Great Kanguroo" (the 1st published description of any kangaroo species) now has a DOI & is part of the great linked network of scholarly research: https://t.co/L7LFf2B55U digitised for by

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2021-04-18

Huge thanks to for supporting my research with a small but important grant! I'll finally be able to have some archival material relating to Maria Cosway's printmaking digitised (after research trips were cancelled!)

Image: BM, from 'Imitations in Chalk' (1800)

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2021-04-15

Late
One of our members has links with Arkleys who gave their collection to . It's digitised!
"offers fascinating glimpse at gender roles, as croquet one of the first games that men & women played together."
https://t.co/jdCLUyb0gJ

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2021-04-14

For many has happened every day over the last year. Like the artists in our collections, more of us have spent time taking a closer look at plants in our gardens, homes and local areas. Take a look https://t.co/9fHAJSAcbP

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2021-04-14


In April 2020 wrote this blog post:
'A Guide for Students to Our Online Catalogue, Digitised Images and Other Resources'
and it's jolly useful, not just for students...

https://t.co/KgYlAy5j6i

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2021-04-11

EEEE this is it! So stoked to finally show you the digitised version of the Crab Nebula No. 2 🦀✨ I painted this a year ago for 6 months and its definitely my best painting yet! AAAH 🥰🥳 Look at those details omg!
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Drop an emoji to let me know what you think about this 🔥😍

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2021-04-03

The SS13 april fools thing is sorta great because they switched all the item sprites for garish digitised photos and i kept getting scared by surgical masks on the floor in the maintenance tunnels.

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2021-04-01

For the casual entertainer…
table centre-pieces as featured in
The Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery (England, 1894) ”a complete dictionary of all pertaining to the art of cookery and table service.” (Digitised book in the New York Academy of Medicine Library)

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2021-03-19

So I digitised business Lokvïr, and gave him a cool pose!

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2021-03-04

Coming along better now I’ve added paint Joe Black I’m intending to draw/paint drag stars in black & white in my sketchbook (from NY) for LGBTQ+ history month so they are stored & digitised forever

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2021-02-08

Digitised my friendo's art of us on IG

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2021-01-31

I wasn't going to fully digitise this, but this came out better than I expected. Here's Night-Watch (Damian's MHA hero name) in all of his glory!

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2021-01-25

🖋️ Sketch from Aubrey Beardsley's letter to G. F. Scotson-Clark, reproduced in The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley (London: John Lane, 1925).

🔗 Link to the digitised book ➡️ in the AB Library: https://t.co/Ma0wBv3HLA

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2021-01-24

This is what we did on today's stream.
Digitised a sketch I did of a new 2D husbando.
Quite proud of this one !


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2021-01-22

Just had to digitise the human gelatine design from last night!!

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2021-01-16

I digitised the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's art I drew several years ago! Figured I'd post it here, too. Yusei has been sat unfinished on my PC for so long. It feels good to finally share him.

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2021-01-13