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“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.” (Wilkie Collins "Woman in White")
#bookologythursday
[ TKG ] OCtober Day 11: "Crush"
With my boy Wilkie thinking about @Tiafu_ 's Walder, who is his best friend... But sometimes he daydreams that maybe they could be just a little more than that 🥺
"Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service."
-- Wilkie Collins
#quotes #quotesoftheday #quoteoftheday #quote #LiteraturePosts #book #English #prose #poetry #art #WilkieCollins #London #TheWomanInWhite #England #novels #writing #England
#OnThisDay 1889 died Wilkie Collins, English novelist, short story writer, and playwright. https://t.co/1Hez7VttFV #LibriVox #audiobook
David Wilkie, Nun Reading to a Child, 1835 #cmaopenaccess #cmadrawings https://t.co/1DqKwBpcTd
Great Rediscovered Classics: The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by #CharlesDickens and #WilkieCollins who set off on a walking tour of the north-west of England
https://t.co/Ssd5Gd4IrI
#book #literature #travelogue
Scottish painter #DavidWilkie RA was especially known for his genre scenes. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres from historical scenes to religious ones and portraits.
He was sometimes known as the "people's painter".
Image courtesy of #PatrickBourne&Co
2/2 Peace: burial at sea. By J.M.W. Turner (born OTD 1775), commemorating the burial of his friend & colleague, artist David Wilkie, who died on the way home from Jerusalem in 1841.
Sergeant Cuff on the Cliffs, by William Sharp, an illustration for Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, but unfortunately quite relevant today! #weather https://t.co/UxqvlMO13K
Lectora 125
Miss Julia Emily Gordon (1833). Sir David Wilkie.
📷 Tate
Children with Pig at a Doorway in Ballynahinch, Ireland, David Wilkie, @YaleBritishArt https://t.co/ru5SF61Vkh #wikidata #digitalart #watercolor (Palette: #Yellows) 🖌🎨
#Goodmorning: born in Bayswater #OTD 1824, the "King of Sensation," Wilkie Collins. Philip Allingham's piece on The Moonstone and British #India, https://t.co/nVXAhJBVV6
The Death of Tipu Sultan - One event but different versions of paintings.
1. By David Wilkie, 1843.
Source : @Sothebys
2. By Henry Singleton, c.1800
Source: @Sothebys
3. By Samuel William Reynolds, 1800.
Source: @britishlibrary
4. An engraving from 1804.
David Wilkie, Study for a Portrait of William IV and Queen Adelaide, 1832 https://t.co/9SxNJoFfa1 #museumarchive #davidwilkie
David Wilkie, Nun Reading to a Child, 1835 https://t.co/1DqKwBpcTd #clevelandartmuseum #museumarchive
David Wilkie, Nun Reading to a Child, 1835 https://t.co/1DqKwBpcTd #clevelandartmuseum #museumarchive
From the free sketch raffle in June. I got a job when I posted it so I just now got the free time xD
(this one is on FA) WilkielTheWolf