# thecrafts2015

Today's is Sleeping Beauty: with exquisite dreamy contributions from: Edward Burne-Jones (1895-90), John Collier (1923), Thomas Ralph Spence (c.1886) & Archibald Wakley (1901, detail)

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2021-06-17

It's all about burgeoning blossom for this week's With superb work by Marie Spartali Stillman: 'Madonna Pietra degli Scrovegni' (1884 ) & 'The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo' (1889) & John Everett Millais 'Spring' & detail (1859 )

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2021-05-13

With some warm sunshine for some of us today and travel restrictions easing soon, the seaside is calling us! Herewith the lure of the mermaid's song from Waterhouse, Burne-Jones and Evelyn de Morgan for this week's

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2021-04-15

Does any other painter capture the windswept look as gracefully as Waterhouse? Here are some beautiful examples for this week's 'Windflowers' (1902), 'Boreas' (& study) (1903) & a detail from 'Miranda' (The Tempest) (1916)

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2021-04-08

Something fishy 🐟🐠 for this week's courtesy of William de Morgan , Burne-Jones ('Lady Feeding Gold-Fish', 1860 ) and D.G.Rossetti's caricature of 'William Morris Fishing in a Punt' (1871, British Museum)

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2021-04-01

Images of Spring for this week's featuring works by John Everett Millais, Frederick Sandys, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and William Henry Hunt (aka 'Bird's Nest' Hunt, not to be confused with William Holman Hunt!) 🐣🦋🌻🍄🌸

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2021-03-18

Roses by Rossetti (or should that be Rose-etti?) for this week's 🌹🏵️

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2021-02-25

Feline figures in Pre-Raphaelite paintings for this week's courtesy of William Holman Hunt (arguably 2 here: moggy on the carpet plus tigerish seducer?), Rosa Brett, Evelyn de Morgan and Susan Herbert's publication 'Pre-Raphaelite Cats' from 2014 🐱🐈

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2021-01-28

How's this for colour
Pencil, watercolour and stitch from

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2015-11-12