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Laura Grover
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History nerd, collector of vintage advice @QuestionableAdvice, a frequent victim of the Cat Distribution System, I used to be in IT but I took an arrow to the knee
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Maurice Sendak knew what was what
A panel from the book Open House for Butterflies, written by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Text says "A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream" and the black pen drawing shows 3 small children, mouths open.
November 20, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Want a pet basilisk? Then take an egg laid by a rooster and incubate it under a toad. It can kill with a glance though, so maybe pop some sunglasses on it...
#FolkyFriday
November 15, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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For lovers of #18thcentury and early #19thcentury satirists, our archive of George 'Moutard' Woodward cartoons may pique your fancy - we have nearly 500! They're all digitised and on our online catalogue: tinyurl.com/ykfs68pa

#history #archives #art
A cartoon from 1809 showing ten figures arranged in two rows. All represent classes of people impossible to find in society. Top row, from left to right: 'A Modest Woman of Quality', 'A Primitive Bishop', 'A Real Maid of Five and Thirty', 'An Exciseman with a Conscience', 'An Author with a Second Suit of Cloaths'. Bottom row, from left to right: 'A Great Man of Common Sense', 'A Woman who has continued three months a Widow', 'A Theatrical Hero of Modesty and Oeconomy', 'A Complete Honest Attorney', 'A Man of Talents, Wit and Learning possessed of a Thousand a Year'.
November 19, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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"Mamma had scarcely turn'd her back,
The thumb was in, alack! Alack!

The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legged scissor-man.
Oh! Children, see! The tailor's come
And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb."

- Heinrich Hoffmann, "Little Suck-a-Thumb"
#FairyTaleTuesday
The scissor-man punishes Suck-a-Thumb for sucking his thumb. Illustrations by Heinrich Hoffmann for "Shock-Headed Peter," his collection of children's rhymes.
November 19, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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They say that "variety is the spice of life" but this is ridiculous.
November 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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I am continually fascinated by Fludd’s back square, both conceptually and materially. To depict this void required a substance: black printing ink. Which is composed of carbon: so the void or absence ends up depicted by the presence of burnt, earthly matter.
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Apr 21
You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians
You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, printed in a book with a wood block. The book titled Robert Fludd "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617), Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm
November 20, 2024 at 12:25 PM