# mayday beltane museumcollection

Happy This week’s is a postcard from our collection welcoming in spring.

May Day has been celebrated in Britain for hundreds of years to mark the changing of the season. The festival of took place on 1st May in pre-Roman Britain.

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2021-05-03

This week's is a painting of the ruins at Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire, painted by JMW Turner after his visit in 1797. Mrs Soane bought the watercolour directly from Turner’s Gallery in 1804, and today it hangs in her Morning Room in the Private Apartments.

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2021-04-25

Visitor Assistant Roberto chooses our View in the Portico with the main entrance of the Design for a Royal Palace, 1827.

"Despite the palace never coming to fruition, this watercolour shows the scale and imagination of Soane."

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2020-11-14

This drawing, produced by Sir John Soane's office for one of his lectures at the Royal Academy, where he was professor of architecture, illustrates the Ionic order according to ten different architects. A pleasant landscape forms the background

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2020-09-25

One of a series of views of Paestum by Giovanni Battista Piranesi that hangs in the Soane's iconic Picture Room. Read more about the Picture Room at https://t.co/UQk45L0CCR

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2020-02-20

Unusual antique weathervane - from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, probably from Capt. Daniel West's slaughterhouse.

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2019-10-09

- Unusual 1880s gas lantern featuring faceted mirrored reflector dish with hole for glass chimney. Design remained in use into early 20C. Safe to carry- small handle on the reverse side. Fueled by petroleum not whale oil, as whaling industry declined.

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2019-06-19

We are delighted to have modelled this week's for 🔷👉💎. This incredible mathematical tower, made in Oxford in the 17th c, has since been owned by and is now displayed in . Curious? Find out more here: https://t.co/ogEVXQnMpR

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2019-05-22