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Another gift from the Thames! found this beautiful Tudor lace end or aglet a few years ago while mudlarking. You can see how they were worn in the 16thC in these portraits. Hear about some other fab finds in the latest Ep. of https://t.co/lzXGGuyknB

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2019-09-03

Map of the City of undated ( Norden 1548 - 1625 ⁦⁩ )
Look closely and you can see the River Fleet flowing from Hampstead via Battle Bridge (Kings Cross) to the Thames Fleet mouth by Bridewell Palace (now where Unilever house is built at Blackfriars )

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2019-09-01

OK one more from Greenwich. Caught a on the Thames. It only stuck around for a minute or so and was always moving so slammed sketch down with sepia fineliner & made up details/colors later.

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2019-08-18

Another of my purchases from 2nd hand bookshops: Kew Gardens (1908) by AR Hope Moncrieff, illustrations by T Mower Martin. Publ. by A & C Black. Cover, and view of 1/.

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2019-08-03

One of the paintings I'll be showing at the pop-up at The Old Fire Station, Henley-on-Thames from next week...

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2019-08-02

I painted looking down the Thames on parchment using oils in muted tones to create a thoughtful atmosphere

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2019-08-02

What a lovely drawing of `Proposed Thames Steam Boat Pier' by John Baldry Redman, March 1846. It looks similar to the pier in his paper on `The Terrace Pier, Gravesend' although this is covered. https://t.co/rlcAfw1kyD

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2019-08-01

What links together an historical conspiracy, a wartime photographer, an art collector, and the River Thames? The answer: forthcoming events at - more details to follow next week about the September to December programme

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2019-07-31

Willem Leendert Bruckman (Dutch, 1866-1928).
The Lock Gate near Stepney, on the River Thames.
Pastel.
Private collection.

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2019-07-28

Parliament, Reflections on the Thames, 1905

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2019-07-17

Gorgeous weather today for Sketch Club, with Val and Bianka capturing riverbank in bloom. .

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2019-07-12

James Abbott McNeil Whistler in 1834 in Lowell Massachusetts, painter of wonderful scenes of Wapping and the Thames in 1861
"I know so little – things do not go quickly!” he wrote at the time

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2019-07-11

Don't miss River Knows at Turning Tides Festival, a free music, art, film and wellness festival on the River Thames. https://t.co/wQrSINErCl

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2019-07-11

Head to Kingston Market Place this weekend for some brilliant local, UK and international musical talent at 's Stage Sounds. Here's who's playing...

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2019-07-05

Learn all about the excitement of mudlarking and a link between some Thames mud and our beloved All Souls College in our interview with mudlarker Jason Sandy!

https://t.co/xPfoUJoR82

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2019-06-17

English painter, born in Purley~on~Thames, near Pangbourne, Berkshire ~ studied at Byam Shaw School of Art and at the Royal Academy Schools ~ best known for highly detailed tempera still lifes ~

Eliot Hodgkin ~ 1905~1987

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2019-06-17

The first four bridges of are going to be lit this summer. Visit the Guildhall Art Gallery to see original architectural drawings and animations of the project displayed alongside historic Thames paintings. https://t.co/vUvQpZoOms

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2019-06-13

This view looking north west across the Thames at low tide captures Labelye’s Westminster Bridge before c. 1770. To the right a line of buildings runs back to Derby Court – once the London residence of the Earl of Derby. Image © Trustees of

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2019-06-13