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- Wall Art

Taking me back to my Aegean days, with some details from the Miniature Fresco from Room 5 of the West House at Akrotiri on Thera.

Image: Archaeological Museum of Thera, 5824

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2020-06-15

A sherd of Roman Samian (Terra Sigillata) Central Gaulish Lezoux ware (c.AD150-180)
Remarkably, this sherd has both the makers mark (VXO[PILL]I M - VXOPILLI M) & the owners name (IVNIANI - Junianus) in graffiti!
https://t.co/mmO9F98vd9

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2020-06-15



Wonderful birds (with a twist)

From my home island of Lesvos a few years back

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2020-06-15

'But Men Must Work and Women Must Weep', 'An Old Cornish Woman' and 'Never Morning Wore to Evening but Some Heart Did Break' by Walter Langley. Heartbroken young women who become heartbroken old ladies! 😭

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2020-06-13

Randolph Caldecott was a Victorian childrens' illustrator. His works can be seen at The Grosvenor museum Chester. These are part of a set of his works which adorned the bathroom which I grew up in, as antique tiles

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2020-06-11

Cutaway illustration (©Peter Dunn/Historic England) of the late 4th Century chapel inside Lullingstone villa, https://t.co/8h0Y31Jd1z

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2020-06-06

The best part of jewels - archer's thumb rings. Sometimes made of gold with gems, or jade only, but my favorite are made on jade base with rubies, emeralds (most common combo), and diamonds.
Here's a compilation of 17th-18th century rings for

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2020-06-06

Stunning Wild Pansy (also known as tickle-my-fancy), Viola tricolor, common throughout Europe, photographed in a Cardiff garden, alongside the beautiful print from Flora Londinensis (1775-1798), by W. Kilburn from collections

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2020-06-05

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), Sussex L-R: Chalk Paths 1935; Beachy Head 1939; Wilmington Giant 1939; and Cuckmere Haven 1939, all watercolour on paper

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2020-06-04

This is the only current of lord 8 Deer, he is one of several important characters of the precolonial history for Mixtec People. There are missing more portraits that links the precolonial past with the present of the in Mexico

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2020-06-03

Early royal not renowned for realism, but funeral effigy of Henry VII said to be unusually lifelike: probably by Torrigiano and taken from a desk mask (1509). Compare with effigy of Catherine de Valois wife of Henry V, d. 1437. Both galleries.

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2020-06-02

Ar gyfer/For 'Naum Gabo', Edward Bouverie Hoyton (1900-1988) ysgythriad/etching 1938. Casgliad/Collection Grant prynu/Purchase grant: 2000

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2020-06-02

I was so impressed by G W Carver when I visited his laboratory at the university- here’s another portrait of him - exhibited

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2020-06-02

this painting by Charles Hazelwood Shannon in ’s collection via He did a lot of watery paintings https://t.co/TFy0b5Egdi

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2020-05-30

Cézanne produced around 200 studies of bathers, and this is one of the earliest

It was given to the Museum by Gwendoline Davies, a pioneer collector of Cezanne’s works, in 1952


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2020-05-30

Fe wnaeth Cézanne tua 200 astudiaeth o ymdrochwyr, a dyma un o'r rhai cynharaf

Fe’i rhoddwyd i’r Amgueddfa gan Gwendoline Davies, casglwr arloesol o weithiau Cezanne, ym 1952


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2020-05-30

Following the photography theme today:
A crucial piece of equipment in our collections - the HerbScan machine for imaging pressed botanical specimens without turning them upside down.
We can then share the high quality photos for science, art and museum lovers!

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2020-05-29

The epitome of fashion - a high class lady in her sumptuous gown

Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland 1904 by


- fashion

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2020-05-27