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Thomas Girtin's 'Ruins'
Tynemouth Priory, Northumberland, c. 1793
Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, c. 1797-99
Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, 1798
Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, 1801
#Watercolors #drawings #UK
The Wind in the Wall by Sally Gardner, illustrated by Rovina Cai, @HotKeyBooksYA in #JunoMagazine @SaffiaLFarr writes "This is a tale of mystery and intrigue. Our narrator, a gardener for the Duke of Northumberland, is set the task of growing a pineapple" 🍍
I thought this was enchanting. Four of the children of Hugh Percy, the Second Duke of Northumberland, oil on canvas, Gilbert Stuart, 1787. #painting #Children #daughters #history
28 December 1665, birth of George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, the third and youngest illegitimate son of Charles II and Barbara Villiers. #otd
Reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon royal palace complex of Gefrin (Yeavering), Northumberland, as it may have appeared in the early 7thC. Spit-roasted beef was a major item of the diet there and in the foreground is a droveway for cattle. [©English Heritage]
28 June 1716, death of George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, youngest illegitimate son of Charles II and Barbara Villiers. #otd
Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, #art #watercolor by Thomas Girtin (February 18, 1775 – November 9, 1802) @Tate https://t.co/uhidxw85Mv