November 5th, Eric Ravilious, 1933. It depicts the view from Eric and Tirzah’s flat in Stratford Road, Kensington, #London. The original artwork is in a private collection. #BonfireNight#fireworks#5november
Strawberry tree (arbutus unedo), red bearberry, trailing azalea and marsh andromeda among the beauties on this plate from Isabel Adams's Wild Flowers of the British Isles, 1907.
A long time before Pantone! In 1692, obscure Dutch artist A Boogert produced a one-off, hand-painted, 900 page catalogue of every conceivable colour, complete with handwritten, detailed advice to artists on how to create them
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