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Paintings of muse and model Fanny Eaton (nee Entwhistle, 1835–1924), to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth in the UK. Born in Jamaica, Fanny came to London when she was young, the daughter of Matilda Foster, a woman of African heritage who had been enslaved in the British Colony. …
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Lucy Paquette@HammockAuthorOct 19
Mrs. Louis E. Raphael (Henriette Goldschmidt, 1877-1926) c. 1906 by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama
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@womensart1Oct 17
Margaret Macdonald ( 1864 – 1933) artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the Glasgow Style during the 1890s to 1900s. ##WomensArt #GlasgowGirls
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Lucy Paquette@HammockAuthorOct 16
Mrs. Luke Ionides (Elfrida Elizabeth Bird, 1848-1929) 1882 by William Blake Richmond (British, 1842-1921) @V_and_A
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Sarah Wise@MissSarahWiseOct 8
On Weds 4 November, 7pm, I'm giving a talk online @citylit about no 18 Denmark St. Here at the 'Eclectic Hall' , a range of 19th-century radicals attracted sell-out crowds. We'll explore the shifting political currents of Soho and St Giles at mid-century tinyurl.com/239zd65p
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We're excited to share the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference "Victorian Borders" cfp. Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.
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Next meeting of the Central DF - Tuesday 22 September at 18.30 @CharterhouseEC1 - John Edmondson on 'Out of Time: Malfunctioning and Neglected Clocks and Watches in Dickens's Fiction'.
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Lynne@ghirlandiaSep 23
The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins d. 23 Sept, 1889 in London #otd John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Christopher Howse@BeardyHowseSep 22
Thomas Crampton, the man who laid the first undersea telegraph cable, across the Channel in 1851, also built this tower at Broadstairs, in 1859. It held 83,000 gallons for domestic supply. But it was in regular use only till 1901.
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Ruskin Society@ruskinsocietySep 21
🎨 Alpine Peaks: Jungfrau and Others John Ruskin, 1846, watercolour on paper. Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery / Bridgeman Images. #Ruskin was greatly impressed by the Jungfrau. He described it as "the most beautiful mountain in the world" (Praeterita, vol. III, §34).
John Ruskin's Alpine Peaks: Jungfrau and Others (1846), a watercolour and pencil study sheet of Swiss Alpine mountains. The composition consists of several separate studies of snow-covered peaks and ridges arranged across the page. Handwritten labels identify mountains including the Jungfrau, Eiger, Finsteraarhorn, Schreckhorn, Wetterhorn, Aarhorn and Breithorn. A dark, rocky massif occupies the centre, while sharper, snow-clad summits appear to the right and lower sections. Executed in pale blue-grey washes with delicate pencil outlines, the sheet combines topographical accuracy, geological observation and atmospheric effects characteristic of Ruskin's Alpine studies.

ALT John Ruskin's Alpine Peaks: Jungfrau and Others (1846), a watercolour and pencil study sheet of Swiss Alpine mountains. The composition consists of several separate studies of snow-covered peaks and ridges arranged across the page. Handwritten labels identify mountains including the Jungfrau, Eiger, Finsteraarhorn, Schreckhorn, Wetterhorn, Aarhorn and Breithorn. A dark, rocky massif occupies the centre, while sharper, snow-clad summits appear to the right and lower sections. Executed in pale blue-grey washes with delicate pencil outlines, the sheet combines topographical accuracy, geological observation and atmospheric effects characteristic of Ruskin's Alpine studies.

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@womensart1Sep 20
The embroidery work of May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor #WomensArt
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“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #WomensArt
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AWNPugin@Pugin_awnSep 20
#Tiles, #StGiles's Church, #Cheadle. Designed by #AWNPugin, made by #HerbertMinton & Co. @RCBirmingham #pugin #gothicrevival #pugingem #pugindesign #pugincheadle #puginchurch #pugintile #gothicrevivaldesign #gothicrevivaltile #gothictile #medievaltile #tile #design #gothicdesign
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Lynne@ghirlandiaSep 15
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockleshells, And pretty maids all in a row. Walter Crane, 1889 #FairyTaleTuesday
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Simon Knott
@TheSimonKnottSep 15
A lot going on here in this altarpiece by Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1886 in the National Gallery of Scotland. In the centre, the Virgin and Child with singing and kissing angels, flanked by two angels on a journey, and the angel of the Holy Spirit awakening the dead on Judgement Day. 1/2
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'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt
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helen warlow
@helen_warlowSep 15
I might have posted this before but it’s very informative My newbies might not have seen it. @helen_warlow Back later.
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Paul Heron
@Paul_Heron_Sep 13
Hard to believe that socialist aesthetics once meant this.
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AWNPugin@Pugin_awnSep 14
#Pugin's tomb. St. Augustine's church, #Ramsgate. Designed by #EDWARDWELBYPugin. @AugustinePugin ✨ #Onthisday in 1852, #AWNPugin died at his home in Ramsgate, Kent. He was only forty. 📷©Michael Torrance #pugin #pugindesign #edwardpugin @VisitRamsgate @thevicsoc @VictorianWeb
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Simon Knott
@TheSimonKnottSep 7
3/3 Roker, Sunderland. Chancel vaulting by Macdonald Gill depicting the days of Creation. The glass in the church is by Henry Payne, furnishings by Ernest Gimson, dedication stone by Eric Gill, font cover by Robert Thompson, a veritable roll call of the Arts & Crafts Movement.
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