g.j.hilton
@hltn.bsky.social
historian of renaissance & em scenography: the material, manufacturers & manufacturing of spectacle - machines, entries, feasts, gardens. (burgundy, you're my favorite.)
(2025) msc bweh, edinburgh medical school
whitby, n.yorks because: goth
(2025) msc bweh, edinburgh medical school
whitby, n.yorks because: goth
I'm not any kind of Italianist but surely 'gl'immascherati' / 'li ma(scher)ati' ought to be translated 'masquers' (ie and not 'masks')?
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I'm not any kind of Italianist but surely 'gl'immascherati' / 'li ma(scher)ati' ought to be translated 'masquers' (ie and not 'masks')?
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
Leonardo. The Literary Works of Leonardo Da Vinci: Compiled and Edited from the Original Manuscripts. Edited by Jean Paul Richter. Phaidon, 1970. Vol II § 748A
Curse you, autocorrect, why do you not understand 'palaeography'? Make a damn fool of me go right ahead!
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Curse you, autocorrect, why do you not understand 'palaeography'? Make a damn fool of me go right ahead!
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
Sorry, folks no dinosaurs.
There's only me would pour so much love into this then stuff up the post announcing it. Sigh.
Anyway: you are ace. Thank you.
Anyway: you are ace. Thank you.
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
There's only me would pour so much love into this then stuff up the post announcing it. Sigh.
Anyway: you are ace. Thank you.
Anyway: you are ace. Thank you.
God I love this so much. Thank you, the course goes form strength to strength.
Daguerre, Blvd du Temple, huit heures and midi.
Daguerre, Blvd du Temple, huit heures and midi.
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
God I love this so much. Thank you, the course goes form strength to strength.
Daguerre, Blvd du Temple, huit heures and midi.
Daguerre, Blvd du Temple, huit heures and midi.
They really did commit to going full gothic on this in absolutely every detail.
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
They really did commit to going full gothic on this in absolutely every detail.
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
✍ Introducing ✍
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeontology
gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/
AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.
#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.
Love g 🗃️
"Of all the sets and all the set pieces - a Frankenstein movie I think the key piece is the lab. That's the one obligatory scene." - @realgdt.bsky.social
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's how I furnished the bottom floor of my house…)
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"Of all the sets and all the set pieces - a Frankenstein movie I think the key piece is the lab. That's the one obligatory scene." - @realgdt.bsky.social
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's how I furnished the bottom floor of my house…)
Set tour: m.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiL...
(Also, the set I wanted so much to design it's
Instagram is an absolute close stool of a website but this post from the legendary Ivan Day on the serving of early modern pies is totally essential
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Instagram is an absolute close stool of a website but this post from the legendary Ivan Day on the serving of early modern pies is totally essential
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
I have wanted to live in that universe since I was five.
Pictured: me, recently.
Pictured: me, recently.
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I have wanted to live in that universe since I was five.
Pictured: me, recently.
Pictured: me, recently.
Kate Hawley on gothtuming @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein.
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Kate Hawley on gothtuming @realgdt.bsky.social Frankenstein.
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
www.phantasmag.com/articles/gui...
Irresistible the way this references Vera West's costume for the 1935 Bride - those sleeves!
Pair of truly gorgeous Austin Osman Spare watercolours with Bellmans next month. Would part with a kidney in a heartbeat to finance, heck both kidneys if you insist.
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Pair of truly gorgeous Austin Osman Spare watercolours with Bellmans next month. Would part with a kidney in a heartbeat to finance, heck both kidneys if you insist.
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
The £1000 estimate is the living definition of a put up 'come by me' job unfortunately.
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
1586. George French of Kingsbridge, Devon had the model Elizabethan garden: formal knot garden, parterres, arbour... BIG SURROUNDING WALL.
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
1586. George French of Kingsbridge, Devon had the model Elizabethan garden: formal knot garden, parterres, arbour... BIG SURROUNDING WALL.
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
(Pretty much mouthwatering) detail from a map with Forum Auctions next month.
www.forumauctions.co.uk/157131/Devon...
As far as I can tell this hasn't been noticed until I showed my amazing mum - who's spent 2 years working with the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe archive at #Whitby Museum - George du Maurier's Whitby Vikings cartoon from Punch. The FMS picture is "c1885", the cartoon 1881 but that "circa" could be critical
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As far as I can tell this hasn't been noticed until I showed my amazing mum - who's spent 2 years working with the Frank Meadow Sutcliffe archive at #Whitby Museum - George du Maurier's Whitby Vikings cartoon from Punch. The FMS picture is "c1885", the cartoon 1881 but that "circa" could be critical
Extracurricular obsession with (a) blue food (b) imaginary flavours continues to be a hurdle to e.g. sleep, reintegration into polite society etc.
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
October 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Extracurricular obsession with (a) blue food (b) imaginary flavours continues to be a hurdle to e.g. sleep, reintegration into polite society etc.
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
This via Mr Tee www.instagram.com/mrtee_offici...
[Terry Thomas voice] Well hel-lo.
October 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
[Terry Thomas voice] Well hel-lo.
In which a throwaway trailing modifier phrase opens up so many more questions than it resolves...
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
October 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In which a throwaway trailing modifier phrase opens up so many more questions than it resolves...
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
Cressy, David. “Death and the Social Order: The Funerary Preferences of Elizabethan Gentlemen.” Continuity and Change 5, no. 1 (1990): 99–119. doi.org/10.1017/S026....
Charles William Lambton ('The Red Boy'), 1825
Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Charles William Lambton ('The Red Boy'), 1825
Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
Two Watermills and an Open Sluice at Singraven, 1650-2
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629–1682)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629–1682)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Two Watermills and an Open Sluice at Singraven, 1650-2
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629–1682)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/1629–1682)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
A Man seated reading at a Table in a Lofty Room
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) (follower of)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) (follower of)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A Man seated reading at a Table in a Lofty Room
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) (follower of)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) (follower of)
The National Gallery, London
artuk.org/discover/art...
The Faggot Gatherers, 1850-1855
Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
National Galleries of Scotland*
(*on loan to National Gallery London)
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
National Galleries of Scotland*
(*on loan to National Gallery London)
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
October 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
The Faggot Gatherers, 1850-1855
Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
National Galleries of Scotland*
(*on loan to National Gallery London)
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
Jean-François Millet (1814-75)
National Galleries of Scotland*
(*on loan to National Gallery London)
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
October 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Bidding now open for the sale of the Jim Henson company's archive: I am being unfairly personally targeted by the lavish selection of dishes and tableware from the show-stealing Skeksis banquet scene in Dark Crystal.
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Bidding now open for the sale of the Jim Henson company's archive: I am being unfairly personally targeted by the lavish selection of dishes and tableware from the show-stealing Skeksis banquet scene in Dark Crystal.
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...
www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...
Google Books captcha generator has a low opinion of vol 2 of the records of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the North Riding of the County of York (1612-1620).
October 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Google Books captcha generator has a low opinion of vol 2 of the records of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the North Riding of the County of York (1612-1620).