26 de julio de 1860. Wilkie Collins en una carta a su madre: «¡Hurra! Acabo de escribir al final de la página cuatrocientos noventa de mi manuscrito la palabra más noble que existe: FIN». Era la última entrega de su novela «La mujer de blanco», que se publicaría el 25 de agosto.

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Queen Victoria's first portrait/painting as monarch - as directed by her and done by Painter in the 0rdinary, Sir David Wilkie: entitled "First Council of Queen Victoria." 👑

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*Long*, obscure, Moto Hagio Poe Clan and serialization tweet to follow:
Perhaps due to all the time I spent in grad school writing about 1860s sensation serials (Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Braddon, etc) and the differences between reading them as they were serialized and the book

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Runner-Ups:
✅ The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
✅Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa
✅Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
✅Armadale by Wilkie Collins

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Nie wytrzymam. Pochwalę się wam już tym wilkiem 🥺🖤

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2/2 Peace: burial at sea. By J.M.W. Turner (born OTD in 1775) commemorating the burial of his friend & colleague, artist David Wilkie, who'd died on the way home from Jerusalem in 1841.

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❀ Day 17: - y would love to see k play.

potendo giocare i pg shakespeariani in ultima battuta, dico:
Amerei vederlo
• per Uno Nessuno Centomila (non accadrà mai lol)
• in ambito fiabesco magari ne Gli abiti dell'Imperatore di Hans 💌
• in un'opera di Wilkie Collins

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Hookah Badar
Charles Cousen, David Wilkie
Prints, Engraving
British, 19th century

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Expecting So sorry for people affected by or worrying about flooding—as if we haven't had enough to contend with this year. Keep safe! This is William Sharp's take on Sergeant Cuff on the cliffs in Wilkie Collins's "The Moonstone" https://t.co/lNavUmY2Ed

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Wishing all of our followers a safe and happy Christmas break and all the best for 2021. 📚 🎄
Image:

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❗Trigger Warning: Blood❗
“In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.”
― Wilkie Collins
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Follow me EVERYWHERE!😂: https://t.co/VdDsA7PtWV
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In this detail of a study, artist David Wilkie dramatically depicts the burying of the Scottish crown jewels in 1652. 👑 Wilkie was born in 1785.

David Wilkie, Study of Two Figures, ca. 1832. Chalk with gouache on paper

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I hope you can join & me this Sunday at 2pm EST/7pm GMT for where we discuss a book or author

This week: Wilkie Collins' "The Woman In White"

If you don't want to miss it comment bellow & we'll tag you on Sunday

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my big fat huge sloshy woshy milky wilkies

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BERNARD WILKIE: We also had to film a monster’s head being bashed in, so we cast one in plaster and filled it with gunge and muck and when the head was broken all sorts of things came out.

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BERNARD WILKIE: Jack and I produced the opening captions by using a sheet of card on which we had cut out the letters. We placed this in front of a bath of dry ice and blew the vapour through the holes.

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Little drawing I did my character Wilkie. 🦑

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