Crystal Palace from the Reservoir, Sydenham, Robert Carrick, https://t.co/klUo4iTyN5 (Palette: 🖌🎨

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Happy birthday 🎉

I picked some flowers for you from Sydenham Edwards’ ‘Botanical register’, contributed to by 💐

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The Red Lion. . . The Greyhound. . . Sydenham. . . London. . . A5: Pen and watercolour drawing. . .

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Stanley Roy Badmin (Angleterre, Sydenham 1906 - Bignor, West Sussex 1989) "February" (1950) Illustration for the Shell guide to trees and shrubs.

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Dyma rai lluniau o rannau o adar gan y darlunydd hanes naturiol Cymreig Sydenham Edwards o gasgliad .

Ydych chi'n adnabod unrhyw un o'r adar? Allwch chi eu henwi?

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Here are some drawings of parts of birds by the Welsh natural history illustrator Sydenham Edwards from the collection.

Do you recognise any of the birds? Can you name them?

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Sinead from Red Faces Prints not only designed the flyer for our Handmade Palace Christmas Craft Market, but her original limited edition prints will also be for sale at the market on 5th, 11th & 12th December!

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Day 7 - G is for gladioli!

↙️ Gladiolus carneus (painted lady)
👨‍🎨Sydenham Edwards, c.1814

↘️Gladiolus dalenii (dragon's head lily)
👩‍🎨Caroline Maria Applebee, 1833

© RHS Lindley collection

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We're sharing night skies for today's ⭐️🌙

In honour of autumn evenings to come, we're sharing "September Evening, Sydenham Hill" by R. W. Woolley from the collection of our friends 🌃

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Sleepless in Sydenham

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Looking into "A complete dictionary of practical gardening" by R.W. Dickson (1807) for an enquiry, with its charming illustrations by Sydenham Edwards: clockwise from left: Lychnis (or Silene) chalcedonica, Leucojum vernum, Lysimachia nummularia

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Sydenham Wells Park. . . Lewisham. . . London. . . Pencil and watercolour drawing. . .

Getting into drawing has brought me out of my shell a bit. . . drawing people out of the corner of my eye is a new skill or a new low depending on how you look at it. . .

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Sydenham Wells Park 3 . . . Lewisham. . . London. . . Watercolour drawing. . .

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Vampire dog? Sydenham Wells Park. . . Lewisham. . . London. . .

Pencil and watercolour drawing. . .

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New to the site: an illustrated account of the author's journey to discover and paint England's most characterful follies - "a colourful and enjoyable read" ()

📸 Pictured: the charming Victorian folly at our very own Sydenham Hill Woods! 🏰🌳 https://t.co/0y6AsZf5ry

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Today’s is of

and on acid free paper.

Find my signature and the date hidden in the picture.

More sketches https://t.co/LmTPLByh1j

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This painting by Meindert Hobbema inspired Vincent van Gogh, who emulated its effects in several paintings after he first saw it in the National Gallery in 1884, and it probably also inspired Camille Pissarro’s 'The Avenue, Sydenham: https://t.co/ip330oRdYF

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▪️SYDENHAM POYNTZ NO:3
Aged 21, taken prisoner in Hungary by Turkish troops.
His possessions were taken, head shaved & he was sold as a slave to a Turkish cavalry officer called Bully Basha.
'My thoughts night and day was to runne away .. [but] my slavish habit would discry me'.

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