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Joyce Mercer (1896 - 1965, English) for two Hans Christian Andersen stories:

1. The Wild Swans - from 1838
https://t.co/l9oifn84pm

2. The Red Shoes - from 1845
https://t.co/dhdj4XEGwV

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black swans
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SWANS & CYGNUS december illustration

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Visited the small, but perfectly formed, exhibition by at Museum in Swansea yesterday. Really interesting, and lots of it so relevant to the work we're doing now.

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Picture of swans carring their babies on their backs are so cute. I was thinking if there could be a swan gryphon, would it carry it's babies like that too? 🦢

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hello my name us Kate Bell and I'm a semi abstract landscape and seascape painter based in Swansea, South Wales. I have a solo show opening 31sr January entitled 'The Listening Sea'. All welcome

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'Can you not be redeemed?' asked the little sister.
'Alas, no,' her brothers answered. 'The conditions are too difficult. You could not speak or laugh for six years, and in that time you would have to sew six little shirts from asters for us.'

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Hello !
My name is Peri and I paint creatures 'studying' fantasy biology, make traditional gouache works with pocket stories and short comics! I am the script and layout artist for Swansong and am the creator of Stonefelled.
💌 peripenrod.com !

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hello all... my name is roy but i also go by swans :) this account is mostly for supporting social and environmental justice movements, so it can be retweet heavy. for art only, check out !

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CHILDREN OF LIR (or Oidheadh chloinne Lir) Aoife, transforms Lir's 4 children into white swans. The swans sing with human voices & tell Lir of Aoife's evil act. Aoifé, touched by a druid's wand is transformed into a demon.
🎨Hill, 1914; rare Lir stamp, Lir Sculpture, Dublin

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Spaniel annoying some swans - 9:12am Clissold Park

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THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert; Ian Daniels

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DYING SWAN At the height of her career with the Russes, resigned & moved to London to Ivy House in Hampstead. The house had an ornamental lake that she filled with snow-white swans to study them for her most famous role, The Dying Swan, first performed 1905

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The Wild Swans illustration for a collab on Instagram ✨

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