Julian May

Messing about with pencils, paints and chisels.
Now also to be found at the sign of the blue butterfly.

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

@TheSkinnerBros The monotony fighter strikes again. Love it!

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

If you haven't watched this yet. Do so URGENTLY

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

@IanGordonCraig @textile_cuisine @D75132283 @LilyRose_Bloom I'm missing from everywhere lately Ian. The traumas and tediums of life have been getting in the way! I hope I'll be bursting back before too long.

[Nadeem Mansoor @NadeemMansoor1]

Paul Rumsey (English, b. 1956, Chelmsford, Essex, England) - The Birds voted for theCat, 2019, Drawings: Charcoal
#politics
#art
#illustration

[WikiVictorian @wikivictorian]

Tintype portrait of eight women displaying their hair. Photographed in 1880.

[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

Dublin in the 1890s

[ℝ𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣 @The_East_End]

Workmen in Piccadilly Circus use drills to lift a wooden street surface. Much of London’s roads were covered in wood rather than cobbles to reduce noise - a practice that continued well into the 20th Century. In 1937, the new Chelsea Bridge was covered in a wooden carriageway… #history #london

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

@ahistoryinart I like Blamey's work but this one in particular has a special meaning to me having worked as a model maker. I can vouch for its accuracy.

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras https://t.co/lzP8acsZRz #OTD

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Born #onthisday in 1838, theologian and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, who in 1884 published the remarkable Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever example of “mathematical fiction”. More on the book here: https://t.co/yqNYNkD0ls #OTD

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

VICTORIAN GOBLIN NOVELS ‘The Princess and the Goblin’, a fantasy novel by George MacDonald published in 1872, a key influence on Tolkien, and ‘Davy and the Goblin’ by Charles Carryl, 1885. #FolkloreSunday #31DaysOfHalloween

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

VICTORIAN FAIRY BOOK Mrs Craik's The Fairy Book, 1869 was a precedent to Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. You can still find Dinah Craik's books, now very collectable, often illustrated by Warwick Globe #gothicspring

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

@profdwh A lesson about making assumptions!

[Victorian Web @VictorianWeb]

How about this for a Christmas present? It's the cloth binding for ‘Leaves from a Christmas Bough’ (1867), a book of verses illustrated with chromolithographs https://t.co/4zwU7N8dfD. Can't help just coveting the cover though!

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

It is said Rossetti saw his wife Lizzie Siddal’s ghost every night for 2 years after her death in 1862. Her ghostly visits surely increased after he had her body exhumed to retrieve his poems. Reports said her red hair had kept growing & now filled her coffin. #MythologyMonday

[The Real Victorian @real_victorian]

"Look at the Time," mid-19th century by Gustave-Leonard de Jonghe (1829-1893).
#art #arthistory #figurativeart #painting #vintageart

[Oksana Ivanik Art @ivanik_oksana]

Painting by Albert Anker (1831-1910

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

@artinsociety So evocative of the freezing cold that permeated those single glazed Crittall windows.

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

@DownsTrader That's interesting. Ann Thwaite also wrote a biography of Edmund and this led her to researching his father. She suggests P. H. was much more attentive and loving than in Edmund's book. Undoubtedly through a straight-jacket of religion.

[Julian May @JulianMay4]

@DownsTrader Philip Henry Gosse: Naturalist and Aquarium Pioneer - the Horniman https://t.co/APqJg1eekY