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There's definitely witchcraft at work in this painting by Edward Burra from the Kirklees collection.

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2020-05-15

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🧙‍♀️Today's theme is

We have a jet pendant of Medusa. Jet is electrostatic - rubbing it would produce a static charge attracting cloth & hair fibres. This fascinated the as it gave a supernatural effect!

CAN YOU BEAT IT?💥

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2020-05-15

"Rooster and Willow" painted by Ito Jakuchu, one of the most popular Japanese painter in 18th century
Look how powerful I am!

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2020-05-12

Choices, choices! In the “bigger must be better” and “down in front” categories we submit “Hat Boxes” by William Heath, July 14, 1829.

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2020-05-03

This cartoon in the collection of is more than a meter long, by the way and was recently cleaned and conserved for an exhibition about Jane Austen at the Royal Pavilion. You can read more about it here: https://t.co/v2GL6lNKmn

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2020-05-01

Throwing my best Regency "hats" in the ring for themed today. Here's some outrageous headgear in the shape of dragons, ships, ostrich feathers and lightning bolts: 'Lumps of Pudding', a cartoon from 1811 by William Heath after HW Bunbury

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2020-05-01

This fancy fellow and lavish lady are illustrations from our Herbert Norris collection. Norris' works eventually became the basis of many costumes used in medieval themed plays.

Search the collection: https://t.co/iuinCeRRKT

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2020-05-01

Our entry for is this super-sassy, mid-C19th print spoofing phrenology. It's called 'Toe-tology' & it features gossip-pativeness, flirtology & cheap-shoe-shop-itiveness!

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2020-04-28

Capsicum specimen collected at "The Villages retirement community (A drinking community with a golfing problem)" (Florida)

[in the NYBG herbarium: https://t.co/unMqMlkMfa]

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2020-04-25

Pre-Raphaelite artist Frederick Sandys did an excellent line in sassy women (and chewing your own hair in a fit of pique)

Cassanda and Helen, 1866
Cross Girl (Proud Maisie), undated
Danae in the Brazen Chamber, 1866
Study for Vivien, undated

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2020-04-24

Charles II's Civil War escape from Cromwell at Worcester was the DEFINITION of sassy - a 6-week adventure full of intrigue and disguise. Here are during and after prints from Worcester's collection

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2020-04-24

ALL HAIL THE KING of 18th century sassy, caricaturist James Gillray.

In this infamous print, 'Lubber's Hole', the future William IV, a notorious womaniser, is seen singing a shanty as he... ahem 'enters' his mistress 'The Crack'd Jordan'

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2020-04-24

We would like to inject a bit of romance into this thread... With the creepiest valentines card ever 😬

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2020-04-17

Hang on we firmly believe that should also be judged on sustainable packaging and presentation! (James Bolton. Harmonia Ruralis: or an essay towards a natural history of British Song Birds. Vol.2, 1845)

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2020-04-09

Although volume 4 of our set of John James Audubon’s Birds of North America weighs a potentially deadly 25 kgs, so could kill a toenail if you dropped it on your foot!

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2020-04-06