This scene of winter revellers on Duddingston Loch, Edinburgh, in 1876 by Charles Altamont Doyle is providing us endless entertainment for today's theme of 'wintertime'❄️
What shenanigans can you spot? Get that magnifying glass out and show us your favourites!🔎

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During 'Little Ice Age' 1300-1870 Thames froze over. frost fairs held from 1608 (#1), and (#2 1684, 1715) featured rides, games, printing presses, ox/mutton roasts, taverns, music, poets and gingerbread (#4 from last fair 1814). From

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Snow Viewing at Mokubo-ji Temple: The Uekiya Restaurant, 1838–40 by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797–1858). Japanese prints of celebrate the fleeting beauty of snow, one of the Three Beauties of Nature, ‘snow, moon and flowers’. https://t.co/vxm0j26T56

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From twilight to moonlight...

Close inspection of this summertime landscape, painted c.1835 by Irish artist James Arthur O'Connor, reveals a wealth of nocturnal river activity.

This painting entered the collection in 1998 through the Fr McGrath Bequest.

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The Night-time phenomenon "Will-o'-the-Wisp" features in folklore throughout the world. Here depicted in "Das Irrlicht" by Arnold Böcklin. Also, musically in Winterreise 9:
"In die tiefsten Felsengründe/Lockte mich ein Irrlicht hin." Day 124

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Day 124 Dusk & Night Ian Whittlesea, The sun is but a morning star, 2011, two prints derived from the title page of Thoreau’s Walden.

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Magnificent hand-coloured etching of Castel Sant'Angelo from the other side of the Tiber at with a crowd of spectators in the foreground and a firework display in the background.
https://t.co/C013oI9sAy

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Although euros are accepted, the kuna is the currency of Croatia. Kuna = marten, the weasel with valuable fur. There’s a kuna animal on the coat of arms of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia seen on the roof tiles of St. Mark’s Church in Zagreb.

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Storm 2 of 2 for Day122 a sublime and picturesque Brighton storm, by none other than JMW Turner. One of very few pictures by him showing the Royal Pavilion. He probably sketched this in 1824 from a boat off the Chain Pier (see Storm 1)

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Watching a storm... I'm not sure I'd stop and paint it, think I'd run off home! ⚡️

From the Monument Hill - Thunderstorm by Elijah Walton, c. 1852.

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Day 122 "Ships and Whales in a Tempest," c.1595 -by The PdP Monogrammist. Early example of Dutch “realistic” marine painting; the earliest marine painting in the Western Hemisphere. https://t.co/xrNVVE24nF

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- Storms

Not my usual stuff, but I'm also a massive comic fan, so...

Here's Halle Berry's Ororo Munroe/Storm Costume from the 2014 film 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'.

Image: National Museum of American History (2014.0076.02)

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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633): Rembrandt's only sea-scape. It was in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston until it was stolen in 1990: it was never recovered. Day122 Storms

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You can really feel the storm form this painting. 'The Fishery' by Richard Wright (c.1723–c.1775)
https://t.co/8P3xmZLlM0

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'St Nicholas of Bari Rebuking the Storm' by Bicci di Lorenzo (1380s-1452). The saint comes to the rescue of sailors caught in a storm - note the fleeing in the bottom left corner. This gem is in the Oxford.

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Dancing Peucetian women. Tomb of the dancers, Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. C5th/C4th BCE. Now

Peucetians - people in ancient Apulia (between Bari & Tarentum).


The colours & movement of this painting are so spectacular!

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"To caper nimbly in a Lady's Chamber to the lascivious pleasing of a Lute." Put some music on and have a for today!

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1850.

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One type of "offerings" found in Bornholm "woodhenges" were burned flint axes...When flint is heated it explodes with loud bangs. These were basically firecrackers 🙂 spirting razor sharp flakes everywhere as they exploded. Cool https://t.co/Y4K51uWnjw

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For Stonehenge, a woodcut by Tokyo-born Yoshijiro Urushibara, aka 'Mokuchū' (1888-1953). He worked in the UK, France, USA and was an important influence on the development of the colour woodcut in UK art schools in the 1920s. colls.

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We draw today's thread to a close with a light-hearted drawing from Jack B. Yeats...

Found on the verso of another drawing, this image depicts a boy in roller skates coming to the aid of another whose foot has become stuck in a hole in a sidewalk. Growing pains!

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