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Anna M. Thane
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An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday

I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net
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#photography #fotografía
#flowers #fujifilm #xt5

📷 ִֶָ𓂃𓈒𓏸‪❀ᵕ̈*
January 21, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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Azaleas, early C19th, attr to #CarolineFriederikeFriedrich (German, 1749-1815), who died #otd, Jan 20. Held by Nasjonalmuseet,
www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/collectio... #womenartists #artherstory
January 20, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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It's Penguin Appreciation day today, here's one of the earliest we can find on a map, from John Senex's 'South America corrected from the observations comunicated to the Royal Society’s of London & Paris', 1710. More on the map here blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2019/02... @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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Fruit and Flowers, 1788, by #CarolineFriederikeFriedrich (German, 1749-1815), who died #otd, Jan 20. Held at the Hermitage, www.hermitagemuseum.org/digital-coll... #womenartists #artherstory
A still life painting with a round (uncut) squash of some kind (maybe calabaza or similar?), plums, green grapes, and a cut lemon with a curl of peel sitting on a wooden table. At the corner of the table, at the left, sits a beetle. An insect of some kind, maybe a small housefly, sits on one of the plums.
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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Johan van Hulstijn
(1811-1879)
A still life with roses, tulips, primula and other flowers.
oil on panel 29.3 x 26.9 cm
January 20, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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'Schnee und Eis nah dran' #FotoVorschlag
Eine ausgedörrte, braune Sonnenblume mit gezackten, eisbedeckten Rändern ragt im goldenen Sonnenaufgangslicht empor, umgeben von weichem Bokeh aus Wolken, einer Fichte und Gebäuden, wobei der strahlende Sonnenball die Szene in warmes, frostiges Leuchten taucht. Die Komposition vermittelt Übergang von Winter zu herbstlichem Glanz.
January 20, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Nebel, -9°C und anschließender Sonnenschein verwandelte gestern alles in eine Märchenlandschaft.
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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#photography #fotografía
#flowers #fujifilm #xt5

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January 20, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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At the bus-stop

Good morning!
A frost pattern at a plexiglas window of a Bus-stop, in the background blurred light-Spots of cars and streetlights in red, yellow, Green, blue and white
January 20, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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Ok folks going to get through as many #BirdOfTheDay entries as I can. Bear with me. Here’s one for #MacroMonday #photography #EastCoastKin
A red admiral butterfly with wings partly open feeds on bright yellow butterfly bush flowers, its dark, scalloped wings patterned with bold red bands and small white spots. The butterfly’s slender body and long antennae are sharply in focus against a softly blurred blue sky and green foliage, creating a vivid contrast between the warm yellow blooms and the cool-toned background.
January 19, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
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#CapeCod #DigitalPainting #Winter

KAORU YAMADA
Japanese digital painter

"My theme is to capture and express the beauty found in everyday life."

Winter window morning...
January 6, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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Inner beauty, in people or even in flowers, isn’t something you notice right away. It shows up slowly, if you’re willing to stay and pay attention.

📷 #Photography #MacroMonday #Macrophotography #Roses #Flower #Bloomscrolling #Nature 🌱
January 19, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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Sonnenschein und Sand unter meinen Füßen. 🌊
Sunshine and sand under my feet.
#eastcoastkin #blueskymonday
#bluetue #tidesouttuesday
Weitläufige Wattlandschaft an der Nordsee bei Sonnenuntergang. Der Himmel ist von dichten, teils aufgelockerten Wolken bedeckt, die das Licht der untergehenden Sonne am Horizont reflektieren. Das Watt im Vordergrund zeigt feuchte, spiegelnde Flächen und flache Wasserläufe. Am Horizont sind mehrere schlanke Pfähle oder Markierungen zu erkennen. Die Farben reichen von kühlem Blau und Grau bis zu warmen Orangetönen am linken Bildrand.
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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I can add a couple more wildflowers to the list this week, dog’s mercury and winter aconite! Here are my #TheWinter10: red dead-nettle, dog’s mercury, sweet violet, snowdrop, field speedwell, hazel catkins, primrose, winter aconite, white dead-nettle and cyclamen. #WildflowerHour
A collage of late winter wildflowers, showing close-up photographs of small purple, white and yellow blooms alongside fresh green leaves and hazel catkins, including dead-nettles, dog’s mercury, sweet violet, field speedwell, snowdrops, primrose, winter aconite and cyclamen, photographed outdoors in soft natural light.
January 18, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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“Music fills the infinite between two souls”
― Rabindranath Tagore
(art by Akira Kusaka)
January 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Happy #flowersonsunday. I'm longing for spring, warmer weather and flowers 🌸! Heres some lovely magnolia to lift the spirit and mood. They're one of your favourites right? 🩷
January 18, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Some budding Winter Aconites for this week's #WildFlowerHour, in our local Cambridgeshire park.
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January 18, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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once upon a fairy tale
Historische Mandoline well hidden behind a wealth of Japanese Anemones
August 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Villa Carlotta in Tremezzo / Italy for #ceilingsonSunday #ChandelierSunday
a frecoed arch leading into a gallery in the neo-classic-style, a chandelier in tent-and-bag-style
January 18, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The Beautiful Mrs Graham' - wp.me/p3JTNy-74s #MondayBlogs
The Beautiful Mrs Graham
I have long admired this portrait, one of Gainsborough’s masterpieces, but until now, haven’t explored her the sitter’s life in any detail, so today this is being rectified. There were three siblin…
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January 12, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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This was such a clever design for a museum show. The pockets of the c18th were suspended from the waist so here, a recreation of the various layers, like an anatomical illustration. The yellow quilted pockets are original amongst the grey blue of the facsimile, #1740s #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Partial view of a fashion display that consists of a dark blue cotton recreation of an c18th pair of stays, skirt, underpinnings and then a view of a yellow quilted pockets The same quilted yellow silk pocket lying flat with a slit at tue top and a tie for the waist A full length view of the entire ensemble showing the various layers, fully clothed on one side and stripped back to show the construction on the other
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Embroidered front and back covers of a 1791 edition of Robinson Crusoe — featured in our essay "Pens and Needles", on the Victorian revival of embroidered book covers: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/pens-and-needles-reviving-book-embroidery-in-victorian-england
January 18, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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Seventeenth-century squirrel, looks like it’s eating a little nut. On an embroidered binding from a 1641 psalter, SSS.34.27 @theul.bsky.social.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
A squirrel on an old embroidered book binding.
January 18, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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Portrait of Lady Mary Fox wears a traveling costume called a Brunswick gown.
The gown was recreated by Maija /Couture Mayah. Read all about the awesome project here:
www.couturemayah.info/eng%20Brunsw...
Lady Mary Fox wears a grey traveling costume called a Brunswick gown. It is adorned with two bows, one at each arm, made of a fabric with red-and white stripes. She hold a little black dog in her arms Photo of Maija in her gorgeous grey brunswick dress. She stands in a park at winter time. Snow falls.
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM