Rosi Crane
@rosicrane.bsky.social
Honorary curator history of science, Otago Museum
19C New Zealand natural history
Tenor City Choir Dunedin
Book sorter for the Regent Theatre annual book sale
Appreciator of turn-of-the-century printmaking
19C New Zealand natural history
Tenor City Choir Dunedin
Book sorter for the Regent Theatre annual book sale
Appreciator of turn-of-the-century printmaking
This Falkland Island Wolf arrived in Dunedin, NZ, in 1875, just a year before it went extinct in the wild. Tuhura Otago Museum's taxidermist, Edwinn Jennings mounted it.
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This Falkland Island Wolf arrived in Dunedin, NZ, in 1875, just a year before it went extinct in the wild. Tuhura Otago Museum's taxidermist, Edwinn Jennings mounted it.
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
Our paper is part of a sample issue and is currently free www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...
This beauty gets in my face when I empty my mail-box.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
August 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This beauty gets in my face when I empty my mail-box.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
I make trips even though I know the postie doesn't deliver every day.
There are bushes of this variety in flower all over Dunedin at present, bringing cheer.
Somehow fitting that the latest book in my collection brings the total to 3,000.
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
August 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Somehow fitting that the latest book in my collection brings the total to 3,000.
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
Was the dreaming child me? Very likely, given the number of school reports that read "must learn to concentrate" and similar!
#bookhistory
Framed my latest #etching, bought at a local auction by Andrew F. Affleck (1874/7-1936), British etcher known for large-sized prints European townscapes, this is Dordrecht.
July 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Framed my latest #etching, bought at a local auction by Andrew F. Affleck (1874/7-1936), British etcher known for large-sized prints European townscapes, this is Dordrecht.
Very honoured to be part of DSO Chorus!
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Very honoured to be part of DSO Chorus!
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
If you are in Dunedin on Saturday night 28 June, do not miss this premiere of the moving story of Mataataua Wharenui. The meeting house’s creation in Whakatāne, the loss of Ngāti Awa control over it, its travels, & return to AoNZ for the 1925 Exhibition.
Pleased to announce publication of my article on how the museum acquired its large critters in late-19C & still mostly on display in Animal Attic, everyone's fave gallery.
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
May 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Pleased to announce publication of my article on how the museum acquired its large critters in late-19C & still mostly on display in Animal Attic, everyone's fave gallery.
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
Natural History Trading with Tūhura Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand, c1860–1890s
muse.jhu.edu/pub/426/arti...
Bought at a local auction for a pittance, considering it's an excellent #etching of Toledo Bridge by Edward Millington Synge (1860-1913). An Irish #printmaker, his work featured in a National Gallery of Ireland exhibition 'Making Their Mark' in 2019. Wish I had a time machine. The catalogue is good.
February 4, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Bought at a local auction for a pittance, considering it's an excellent #etching of Toledo Bridge by Edward Millington Synge (1860-1913). An Irish #printmaker, his work featured in a National Gallery of Ireland exhibition 'Making Their Mark' in 2019. Wish I had a time machine. The catalogue is good.
Picked up a very neat copy of 'Glaucus:The Wonders of the Shore' by Rev Charles Kingsley for a song from local op-shop.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
February 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Picked up a very neat copy of 'Glaucus:The Wonders of the Shore' by Rev Charles Kingsley for a song from local op-shop.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
Yes, the same Charles Kingsley of 'Water-Babies' fame. Naturalist, social reformer, Anglican priest and supporter of Darwin's ideas which he promoted as theologically orthodox.
With a superabundance of Oamaru limestone, which has stood the test of time, the Oamaru War Memorial choice was marble (probably imported), curious.
#urbangeology
#urbangeology
January 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
With a superabundance of Oamaru limestone, which has stood the test of time, the Oamaru War Memorial choice was marble (probably imported), curious.
#urbangeology
#urbangeology
A half-hearted decorative effort, seen in a waiting room, but my sentiments are not half-hearted, Season's Greetings.
December 24, 2024 at 6:04 AM
A half-hearted decorative effort, seen in a waiting room, but my sentiments are not half-hearted, Season's Greetings.
Utterly delightful find in local bookshop. V&A reprinted this small volume on High Street shops, illust Eric Ravillious. Originally published 1938 as an AtoZ of shops. Gill Saunders essay provides context of this lost pre-WWII world.
#illustrators #bookhistory
#illustrators #bookhistory
December 11, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Utterly delightful find in local bookshop. V&A reprinted this small volume on High Street shops, illust Eric Ravillious. Originally published 1938 as an AtoZ of shops. Gill Saunders essay provides context of this lost pre-WWII world.
#illustrators #bookhistory
#illustrators #bookhistory
Front cover of December issue of ISIS, Journal history of science society, features eruption of Krakatoa.
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
November 27, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Front cover of December issue of ISIS, Journal history of science society, features eruption of Krakatoa.
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
Lithography by Michael Prendergast Parker (1859-1934), younger brother of the man who is alive and living in my head - Thomas Jeffery Parker FRS (1850-1897).
#HistSTM #ScientificIllustration
Mood!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Mood!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
My single peony flower did not survive the overnight thunder, lightning and downpour!
As in how-to?
Acquired this one a few months ago.
Otherwise ... well I now have a growing collection of the results of artistic endeavours, mostly allied to the renaissance of etching, between the WWI & WWII.
Acquired this one a few months ago.
Otherwise ... well I now have a growing collection of the results of artistic endeavours, mostly allied to the renaissance of etching, between the WWI & WWII.
November 1, 2024 at 3:03 AM
As in how-to?
Acquired this one a few months ago.
Otherwise ... well I now have a growing collection of the results of artistic endeavours, mostly allied to the renaissance of etching, between the WWI & WWII.
Acquired this one a few months ago.
Otherwise ... well I now have a growing collection of the results of artistic endeavours, mostly allied to the renaissance of etching, between the WWI & WWII.
Escapism for a wet afternoon.
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
November 1, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Escapism for a wet afternoon.
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
Book order just arrived. Look at that absolute unit! @themerl.bsky.social
Turns out to be a reprint from a special issue of 1950 quarterly, Image.
#engraving #arthistory #BookHistory
I'll raise you spring in our local!
October 27, 2024 at 3:39 AM
I'll raise you spring in our local!
After some ugly pruning (aka hacking) a couple or three years ago the not-my-tree at the end of my driveway has slowly revealed a face. It's an uncanny resemblance to Frederick Douglass the abolitionist IMHO.
March 1, 2024 at 6:27 AM
After some ugly pruning (aka hacking) a couple or three years ago the not-my-tree at the end of my driveway has slowly revealed a face. It's an uncanny resemblance to Frederick Douglass the abolitionist IMHO.
This Friday & Saturday ... come with your cash to see what all our hard work sorting sorting throughout the year can produce. There are enough books for every imaginable bibliophile. Old & Quirky; History; Science; Religion; Hobbies; Gardening; Arts; Travel; Foreign Language; Travel; Sport; War.
February 27, 2024 at 5:53 AM
This Friday & Saturday ... come with your cash to see what all our hard work sorting sorting throughout the year can produce. There are enough books for every imaginable bibliophile. Old & Quirky; History; Science; Religion; Hobbies; Gardening; Arts; Travel; Foreign Language; Travel; Sport; War.
Began rehearsing this puppy last night.
After a month's summer recess pleased to say my ageing voice held up quite well.
#choralmusic #classicalmusic #Bach
After a month's summer recess pleased to say my ageing voice held up quite well.
#choralmusic #classicalmusic #Bach
January 30, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Began rehearsing this puppy last night.
After a month's summer recess pleased to say my ageing voice held up quite well.
#choralmusic #classicalmusic #Bach
After a month's summer recess pleased to say my ageing voice held up quite well.
#choralmusic #classicalmusic #Bach
Can't afford to collect the original engravings, but can collect the next best thing: books with illustrations. Robert Gibbings and Gwen Raverat were founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers, still going strong today (after a few years of doldrums in the 1970s).
January 25, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Can't afford to collect the original engravings, but can collect the next best thing: books with illustrations. Robert Gibbings and Gwen Raverat were founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers, still going strong today (after a few years of doldrums in the 1970s).
An ordinary civic library maybe but Dunedin Public Library completes a large digitisation project on its mediaeval manuscripts.
Donated by publisher AH Reed, a household name in early to mid 20C.
odt.shorthandstories.com/medieval-man...
Donated by publisher AH Reed, a household name in early to mid 20C.
odt.shorthandstories.com/medieval-man...
January 25, 2024 at 2:51 AM
An ordinary civic library maybe but Dunedin Public Library completes a large digitisation project on its mediaeval manuscripts.
Donated by publisher AH Reed, a household name in early to mid 20C.
odt.shorthandstories.com/medieval-man...
Donated by publisher AH Reed, a household name in early to mid 20C.
odt.shorthandstories.com/medieval-man...
The nice thing about Christmas in NZ -- it goes on forever, as another book turns up that I had ordered for myself.
"A small mound of white feathers lies on a tussock grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan."
Pics & words perfectly match
"A small mound of white feathers lies on a tussock grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan."
Pics & words perfectly match
January 14, 2024 at 4:29 AM
The nice thing about Christmas in NZ -- it goes on forever, as another book turns up that I had ordered for myself.
"A small mound of white feathers lies on a tussock grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan."
Pics & words perfectly match
"A small mound of white feathers lies on a tussock grass made grey by a Highland winter. It is all the monument there will ever be to the life of a swan."
Pics & words perfectly match
Wild bunny enjoying Dunedin's drizzly evening.
Slightly out of focus because of low-light levels.
Where's the summer sun gone?
We have had a single day of sunshine this year.
Grumble, grumble, grumble - it's like winter (version II with day-length).
Slightly out of focus because of low-light levels.
Where's the summer sun gone?
We have had a single day of sunshine this year.
Grumble, grumble, grumble - it's like winter (version II with day-length).
January 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Wild bunny enjoying Dunedin's drizzly evening.
Slightly out of focus because of low-light levels.
Where's the summer sun gone?
We have had a single day of sunshine this year.
Grumble, grumble, grumble - it's like winter (version II with day-length).
Slightly out of focus because of low-light levels.
Where's the summer sun gone?
We have had a single day of sunshine this year.
Grumble, grumble, grumble - it's like winter (version II with day-length).
Curmudgeonly Bernard Sleigh in his book "Wood Engraving" published 1932, thinks "Miss Lane Foster would excel [at portraiture] were she to adopt a less coarse handling of the graver".
Harumph!
Harumph!
January 1, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Curmudgeonly Bernard Sleigh in his book "Wood Engraving" published 1932, thinks "Miss Lane Foster would excel [at portraiture] were she to adopt a less coarse handling of the graver".
Harumph!
Harumph!
I am enjoying my Christmas present to myself!
Clare Leighton's engravings recorded a life already passing when she first did them in the 1930s.
"She [blackbird] is in a tangle of crab-apple tree in the hedge... so immovable that she might be carved in wood."
Clare Leighton's engravings recorded a life already passing when she first did them in the 1930s.
"She [blackbird] is in a tangle of crab-apple tree in the hedge... so immovable that she might be carved in wood."
January 1, 2024 at 1:14 AM
I am enjoying my Christmas present to myself!
Clare Leighton's engravings recorded a life already passing when she first did them in the 1930s.
"She [blackbird] is in a tangle of crab-apple tree in the hedge... so immovable that she might be carved in wood."
Clare Leighton's engravings recorded a life already passing when she first did them in the 1930s.
"She [blackbird] is in a tangle of crab-apple tree in the hedge... so immovable that she might be carved in wood."