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For today's #MuseumsUnlocked, let's take a tour around the #RomanEmpire to explore some #DomesticArchitecture. The most common #house for medium-upper classes in cities&towns was the #domus (📸: T.Langhammer on @WikiCommons - CC BY-SA 3.0), while #insulae were block of flats 1/12
Before roads or railways were built the best way to travel long distances was by sea.The ‘Palmerston’ was a paddle wheel steamship, called a packet as it carried the Royal Mail.
In 1830 the ship was carrying passengers twice a week btw Bristol and Swansea. #museumsunlocked
In 2002 a volume compiled by Charles James Richardson, one of Sir John Soane’s former assistants, was 'discovered' @britishlibrary...
https://t.co/6Is8InTHYk #MuseumsUnlocked #housemuseums
#GIFITUPIndia ⚡️We've decided to team up with the wonderful folks at DAG Museums & @Europeanaeu to explore the power of GIFs to celebrate #art ! Here's how you can participate 🤳 https://t.co/tcbyOOyAwN
For #MuseumsUnlocked on Trees, Plants and Environment -- let's go with none other than Emily Carr and her iconic paintings of Canada's western forests. Here, Metchosin, 1935 (Winnipeg Art Gallery). 🌳
Detail of Portrait of Benjamin West, after Lawrence, Unidentified Artist, after 1821 https://t.co/1an5TcFGfI #museumarchive #harvardartmuseums
Wind in the Tree Tops by Christopher R. W. Nevinson seems the perfect art work for #MuseumsUnlocked today, and for the windy weather we've been having!
Allegory on the Art of Drawing with the Emblem of the Artist, Hendrick Goltzius, 1612 https://t.co/csTQ1ufWBb #hendrickgoltzius #harvardartmuseums
The Artist's Sister Wilhelmina, Per Krafft d.y., 19?? https://t.co/EOezsSNaEP #europeana #natmuseumswe
Hagar and Ishmael in a Southern Wooded Landscape, Gaspard Dughet, 17th century https://t.co/rYoyzh926t #harvardartmuseums #gasparddughet
#MuseumsUnlocked Day90 #Food & #drink
Ref MM/DESIGNS/356 @UoB_Theatre_Col.
Wilhelm's ‘Absinthe’ design, a child's costume for the 'Grand Vintage Ballet' sequence in Act 2 of 'Rothomago', or 'The Magic Witch', a musical fairy spectacle at the Alhambra Theatre, London in 1879.
#MuseumsUnlocked Day90 #Food & #drink
PCF193, 2011/0008/3 @UoB_Theatre_Col Artwork ‘Banquet’ unknown artist, a theatre cloth, size paint on canvas H73 x W122 cm.
This was unrolled by Theatre Collection staff for our special event in 2019 'A Taste of the Theatre Archive'
Preparations for a Feast, Netherlandish (Delft) School, 1575-1625 seems the perfect share for today's #MuseumsUnlocked Food & Drink theme today!
The feast of the gods https://t.co/iVRDX9cU15 #MuseumsUnlocked #FoodandDrink
The Elevation of the Magdalene, Raffaello Schiaminossi, 1612 https://t.co/HLAvfSOeKO #raffaelloschiaminossi #harvardartmuseums
Watching "Punch and Judy", Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, c. 1820-1829 https://t.co/D3zfeJeb3e #harvardartmuseums #nicolastoussaintcharlet
#MuseumsUnlocked #animals Henri Rousseau in collections across the world - these in Cleveland, Washington & St Petersburg
Venus and Amour, Augustin de Saint-Aubin, 18th-19th century https://t.co/UWFejgc0QW #augustindesaintaubin #harvardartmuseums
Woman Doing Handwork; verso: Landscape [by a later hand], Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, c. 1655 https://t.co/TrPDCG5jx9 #harvardartmuseums #gerbrandvandeneeckhout
@profdanhicks, little selection of @fatimaronquillo’s Flora & Fauna, Mad Enchantment & Mythologies series
https://t.co/BaukcERoDD
#MuseumsUnlocked #animals
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