Hilly landscape, Auvergne wikiart.org/en/theodore-ro…

A photograph of The walls of the Marshalsea Prison, Southwark, date unkown .

Nice wander by the river Wye near Ashford in the Water today #sundayvibes #peakdistrict

‘Lee Miller’,
Man Ray, 1930

Julie Manet Rouart in front of a painting of herself and her father, Eugène Manet, by her mother, Berthe Morisot. Julie spent her life promoting 'les oncles' Monet, Renoir, and Degas-and Morisot-after Impressionism fell out of fashion.
#MothersDay #LaLuministe

‘Authentic Stupidity’: Ben Elton’s new show explores how idiotic human beings can be

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The Munshi
Abdul Karim
entered Queen Victoria’s service in 1887 as her personal Indian servant
Oil Painting/Portrait by Rudolf Swoboda Royal Collection Trust
In 1886, Queen commissioned him to paint Indian artisans who had been brought to Windsor Castle as part of Golden Jubilee preparations

A view of Providence Place, in Stepney, taken in 1909.

The Creation returns to the Creator!

'Krishna and Radha Under a Tree in a Storm', ca 1790, India

Lord Krishna sits beneath a tree while Radha & all creatures, run to join him, seeking shelter from an impending storm. My favourite here is the Gwal sitting at the feet of Krishna!

A Whiter Shade Of Pale was released #otd 1967. It topped the UK charts for six weeks & went to #5 in America.
Lyricist Keith Reid posted the lyrics to pianist/singer Gary Brooker, who set them to music 📩How very quaint.

Most played song on 📻 ever .

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On #MothersDay 2024

This c1800 CE painting of a lady & presumably her son, attributed to Chokha of #Udaipur #Rajasthan & from Ashmolean Museum now at display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition 'Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin's Collection of Indian Court Paintings'
#MothersDay

Seaside Cottages with Dovecote (from Barrhead, Renfrewshire, Scotland) by Edward Arthur Walton c. 1900
Oil on Canvas
(Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow, Scotland)

«El pajarillo»
Celos me da un pajarillo
que remontándose al cielo
tanto en sí se excede
que deja burlado al viento.
-Sor Gregoria Francisca,1653-1736

#art
Retablo tardogótico de la Virgen de los Reyes, capilla de la Colegiata de #Osuna #Sevilla s.XVI
📸José Ángel Prieto Perera

Het dagelijks brood...

🎨 'Brödbaket' (1889), Anders Zorn 🇸🇪

Grasmere,LDNP

Gwadn cove at Solva #Solfach Pembrokeshire #SirBenfro 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 on a sunny day 🌊🌅 🏖☀️

🌟 We can't get enough of the Northern Lights over Cambridge!

📸 Engineering PhD student Jamie Clarkson took this beautiful shot on Friday night: 'Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d see the Aurora this well in Cambridge! A once in a lifetime event.'

The home-made banners and sashes of British Indian suffragettes, whose role in the suffrage movement is often unknown, including that of Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh, a prominent suffragette and accredited physician in the UK #womensart

Completed the recce of the Slow Ways route from #Maesteg to #Sarn in the glorious sunshine. I’m due to lead a rail to trail RamblersGB and Love2WalkWales walk on 23rd June. Hopefully the weather stays with us! #Ramblers #WalkingFestival #Bridgend

'Mother and Child.' (1903) Today, I'm looking at William Rothenstein and his immediate artistic circle. Rothenstein, a student of Rossetti and Ruskin, was an artist, critic, teacher, writer, lecturer, and Official War Artist in both world wars and is best known for his portraits…