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Essays of Sir William Cornwallis MP (the younger) 1632.
I love that he's shown studying on one side and then writing on the other.

Cornwallis was on Essex's Irish campaign of 1599. A friend of John Donne, he died in 1614.

(British Museum)

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2022-06-14

The Mermaid of Zennor by John Reinhard Weguelin was inspired by a Medieval legend of a mermaid who lived at Pendour Cove, near Zennor, Cornwall.
Legend tells a man fell in love with the her, followed her beneath the waves, never to be seen again.


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2022-06-13

11 June 1598: Hugh Peter[s] independent preacher, baptised at Fowey Much-satirised as right-hand preacher of Cromwell &c.
I have put three satirical prints and one 'vera effigies' print here (BM/NPG) Take your pick.

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2022-06-12

8 Jun 1780 Charleston, SC Gen Henry Clinton sails for NYC, confident that the southern strategy is on track to subdue the Carolinas. He left Gen Charles Cornwallis as theatre commander.

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2022-06-09

🌊🌩️🌊The Doom Bar at Padstow, Cornwall - a wide sandbar notorious for shipwrecks - is said to have been raised in a violent storm by a Mermaid who cursed the town with her dying breath after being shot.

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2022-06-08

A sweet picture of childhood for my Wee Viscount Brome, son of Marquess of Cornwallis of 🇺🇸Rev fame, rendered in pastels with his older sister Lady Mary & their adorable pink-cheeked cousin Miss Caroline Townshend. Their spaniel plays nearby.
Daniel Gardner c1781

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2022-06-04

In Cornwall if you are near a portal to fairyland you will smell an intense floral scent...

🎨Füssli

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2022-06-02

We are delighted to present a solo exhibition by Jo March entitled 'Home' from 11th to 24th June at Marine House. Works available now on our website. Jo's whimsical paintings are eternally popular, and wonderfully colourful, showing her home county of Cornwall in all its glory.

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2022-06-01

On Cornwall's Bodmin Moor is the bottomless Dozmary Pool where King Arthur's knight, honouring Arthur's will, cast away Excalibur. A female arm rose from the water, clasped the sword & sank back beneath the surface.
Excalibur lies there still, in the cold, black, lifeless lake.

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2022-05-14

12 May 1780. General Benjamin Lincoln surrenders Charleston, SC to Sir Henry Clinton. Clinton denied Lincoln the honors of war, an act that Colonel John Laurens who was with Lincoln never forgot & repaid in the terms of surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, VA Oct 19, 1781.

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2022-05-13

Je vous partage ce magnifique tableau marin pour vous souhaiter une belle journée ! 🐚

« Rocky Coastline, Cornwall » (1886) William Trost Richards

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2022-05-12

"H.M.S. Cornwall"

Arist- William Lionel Wyllie

©️National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection

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2022-05-11

I love to sketch at the beach and capture the pattern and texture - these were done at Sennen Cove in Cornwall

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2022-05-11

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2022-05-05

Tonight is the first of our summer pub outs! We are kicking off at The Crooked Inn, Trematon 8pm. See you there!

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2022-05-05

None of these are really my sonas, more so OCs but I hope they still count!

Baphie: Half cat half goat, really just a play on 'Baphomet'

Cinnabar and Painite: That's the gems that represent them, so tada lol

Colonel Cornelius Cornwallis: Corn farmer lol

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2022-04-29