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Meet Rib. Our first backer Kobold for Dakota Dodwell. Rib is convinced Hearth is about to have a cold snap, so he is making sure that all the kobolds get enough scarves before the big chill.

He uh… he hasn’t realized they live in a volcano yet.

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2022-02-28

The Bazaar of Athens, Dodwell, 1819.
Beneath the Acropolis we can see Disdar Aga, the Ottoman governor of the city, being served coffee, women sitting with their bundles, and an African man staring back at us.

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2022-01-22

'Almost every rock, every promontory, every river, is haunted by the shadows of the mighty dead'

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2021-08-09

The brutal dismemberment of Parthenon by Lord Elgin's men - commencing in 1801 - was captured by the English painter Edward Dodwell. The use of saws to hack through large sections of the Panathenaic frieze also caused structural damage

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2020-12-14

This is a water rail surrounded by tiny toadlets.

These beautiful birds are quite rare and I'm yet to see one in the wild.

Illustrated for while ago

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2020-05-21

Edward Dodwell (1769-1838)-'the Hyperian fountain at Pherae'-drawing in Views in Greece by the English traveller and archaeologist, London (1821)

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2020-03-29

Edward Dodwell (1769-1838)-'bazaar of Athens'-drawing in Views in Greece by the English traveller and archaeologist, London (1821)

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2020-03-06

Next stop: Pherai, for a deep dive into the particulars of Late Classical Thessalian politics. Also the site of the Homerically cited Hyperian Fountain, which is now defunct, but was vibrantly captured in this 1821 illustration by Dodwell

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2020-01-24