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For today's let's take a tour around the to explore some The most common for medium-upper classes in cities&towns was the (📸: T.Langhammer on - CC BY-SA 3.0), while were block of flats 1/12

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Before roads or railways were built the best way to travel long distances was by sea.The ‘Palmerston’ was a paddle wheel steamship, called a packet as it carried the Royal Mail.
In 1830 the ship was carrying passengers twice a week btw Bristol and Swansea.

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In 2002 a volume compiled by Charles James Richardson, one of Sir John Soane’s former assistants, was 'discovered' ...
https://t.co/6Is8InTHYk

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For on Trees, Plants and Environment -- let's go with none other than Emily Carr and her iconic paintings of Canada's western forests. Here, Metchosin, 1935 (Winnipeg Art Gallery). 🌳

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Wind in the Tree Tops by Christopher R. W. Nevinson seems the perfect art work for today, and for the windy weather we've been having!

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Wilhelm's ‘Absinthe’ design, a child's costume for the 'Grand Vintage Ballet' sequence in Act 2 of 'Rothomago', or 'The Magic Witch', a musical fairy spectacle at the Alhambra Theatre, London in 1879.

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PCF193, 2011/0008/3 Artwork ‘Banquet’ unknown artist, a theatre cloth, size paint on canvas H73 x W122 cm.

This was unrolled by Theatre Collection staff for our special event in 2019 'A Taste of the Theatre Archive'

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Preparations for a Feast, Netherlandish (Delft) School, 1575-1625 seems the perfect share for today's Food & Drink theme today!

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Henri Rousseau in collections across the world - these in Cleveland, Washington & St Petersburg

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12th century camel from the Hermitage of San Baudelio de Berlanga, near Soria in north central Spain. Part of the collections at the Cloisters Museum (the Met).

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Here is Peter Doig's "Island Painting" (2000-2001)—to kick off Day 87 of (Friday 26 June) on the theme of SOLITUDE

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means reflection. Drawing means concentration and emphasis. It literally enables us to draw connections and contexts.

That makes such an interesting and, imho, useful documentation tool.

From the archaeologist‘s sketchbook for today‘s

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Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista)  also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian artist famous for his etchings of 

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti is next out of the online image resource for dive in yourself and look for Drawings & Illustrations!
https://t.co/RDbJ1PgQ0G
Woman combing her hair, Fanny Cornforth
The Raven - Angel Footfalls
Portrait of a Young Man

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Today's theme is drawings and illustration, so who better to highlight than the master, Michelangelo? Michelangelo is widely recognised as one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period. Here are a few of his drawings from our collection

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‘Sitting among the daisies was a plump, elderly gentleman’ For an original drawing by Keith Vaughan for illus. on p.12 of P. H. Newby's The Spirit of Jem, a children's adventure story, published by John Lehmann in 1947. Purchase c/o grant

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For watercolour possibly by Jacques Hippolyte van der Burch (1786-1856) for chromolithographic plates in 'Traité des exhumations juridiques' 1831, a treatise by Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853) and Octave Lesueur (1802-1860). Gift: George Powell 1882

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botanical drawings by Augustus Withers (1793-1871)Popular in 1830s & 40s, she worked for & was patronised by Queens Adelaide & Victoria.Sadly she ended her life in St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics where she died of ‘pneumonia & senile decay’

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