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When we spoke about the lockdown we talked about our charity auction. Your readers may be interested to know they can now register to bid via https://t.co/pDEvmYaGu2 An eclectic set of lots, something for every budget 💰 & every penny helps SAVE THE MUSEUM.

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2020-06-17

For the lady who has everything, how about a personal puppet dandy? Cruikshank’s The English Ladies Dandy Toy, via the British Museum. gloriousgeorgians

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2020-06-16

Into Thin Air by Elizabeth Pollie in Making Their Mark: American Women Artists at the Booth Museum.

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2020-06-16

Baldr on the job at work! On a archeological dig to collect some fossils to take back to the museum. I really really love this, amazing art by thank you so so much for this gift!

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2020-06-12

CALLING ALL QUEERS: - AN ACTION FOR BLACK TRANS LIVES. THIS SUNDAY 6/14 @ 1PM. OUTSIDE BROOKLYN MUSEUM. RALLY + SILENT MARCH TO FOLLOW. WEAR WHITE. WITH ART BY

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2020-06-12

Thomas Lawrence was a celebrated and prolific portraitist. Many of his works, like this one of the Duke of Atholl, were on a grand scale. You may remember seeing the painting at We think that the work captures the splendour quite nicely 🎨 👌🏽

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2020-06-08

Émile-Antoine-François Herson, Interior of St. Etienne du Mont (1864), watercolor, Walters Art Museum. Fabulous staircases!
https://t.co/7PtqD40x3N

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2020-06-07

Dit vind ik één van de mooiste schilderijen van het Rijksmuseum. ❤

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2020-06-05

Getting close to deadline for donations for our shed auction to save the Florence Nightingale museum. We have everything from Florence's holiday cottage to a tour of a nuclear sub! Msg me with any donations. Sale date 19th June. Venue. The shed.

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2020-06-05

In memory of Christo, who passed away today, 5/31/2020, at the age of 84. On 11/20/1978, Schulz memorialized Christo’s work in this Peanuts comic strip. 25 years later Christo gifted “Wrapped Snoopy House” to Jean Schulz, now on permanent display in the Museum.

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2020-06-01

Guler 18th C; Vishnu with Lakshmi. After the Yog Nidra. At Reitberg Museum.
“This soul is of its own nature,
pure, composed of happiness and wisdom.
The properties of pain, ignorance and impurity,
are those of Prakriti, not of soul.”

—Vishnu Purana

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2020-05-28

4. He never considered giving the Spranger to a museum other than the Rijksmuseum. "I am and will remain an Amsterdammer. My parents are buried there.”
Missed it at Tefaf but it will be on display from 1 June so I'll see it on the 5th!

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2020-05-27

Incredible amount of and villages (and even a city) was lost due to the Saint Felix flood of 1530 in Zeeland. A lot of finds done by treasure hunters ended in collection of https://t.co/LGxUVjDu8c

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2020-05-26

is this tile panel in the collection of the V&A Museum. It was designed by William Morris and made by William De Morgan for Membland Hall, one of their earliest commissions for tiles for the domestic space.

Find out more https://t.co/fclI73bETC

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2020-05-27

I did not forget my promise to Oma about the forbidden jolly rancher.
Oma and Veebus go to the museum.

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2020-05-25

Moths in the park: The genera of British moths : popularly described and arranged according to the system now adopted in the British Museum.... by HN Humphreys, 1860, BHL/Smithsonian, https://t.co/gHzFJaXOUl

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2020-05-23

We charge forth into the weekend!

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Carl Emil Doepler (1824–1905), Costume design for Ortlinde, Der Ring des Nibelungen: Figurinen, Berlin: Berliner Kunstdruck- und Verlags-Anstalt, 1889, Chromolithograph. Gift of Hester Diamond, 2012. The Morgan Library & Museum.

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2020-05-23

Giuseppe Bonito's Il Femminiello (1740/1760) is the only known c.18th depiction of an Italian femminiello, which translates as “little female-men". Femminielli were believed to bring good luck and were often asked to bless newborns. from Portland Art Museum.

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2020-05-20

that when the India Museum was dispersed in 1879 botanical drawings were sent to with duplicates going to Edinburgh

The BL also houses natural history works from the India Museum. Here’s one with some furry friends NHD1/19

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2020-05-19

A savage satire on fashion from the - look at that nose! A new fashion'd head dress for young misses of three score and ten, Philip Dawe, 1777, from the British Museum.

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2020-05-18