Grosvenor Prints @grosvenorprints
London's Largest Stock of Antique Prints - 17th to Early 20th Century. grosvenorprints.com 7 Dials, Covent Garden, London Joined October 2012-
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Art of the Book: London's Rare Book Fair from May 16-19; Download tickets here & Visit us at Stand J91: #BookFair #London #books #bookbinder #art #May #RareBooks #FirstsLondon @firstslondon #SaatchiGallery #tickets #booksellers; firsts.artsvp.com/649b5e?link=gr…
Artist of the Week: Thomas Bewick; #woodengravings #Bewick #ThomasBewick #collection #naturalhistory #engraver #author #woodblock #Northumberland #prints #adverts #book #BewickGleanings #artwork; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Hampton Court Tulip Festival ends today, but Gardens open for Spring visit; #HamptonCourt #tulip #festival #floral #RoyalPalace #April #Spring #GardenHistory #gardens #tour @HRP_palaces #HenryVIII #display #London #Palaces #prospects; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
British explorer James Cook made his 1st landing at Botany Bay end of April 1770; #April #Australia #JamesCook #Endeavour #explorer #BotanyBay #EastCoast #Crew #marine #maritime #History #portraits #Prints #frontispiece; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
The London Gazette #OTD 1689; #declaration #announcement #newspaper #news #events #Royals #William #Mary #letterpress #Huguenots #French #ephemera #April #record @RunnymedeTrust #Huguenotsociety #London #Protestant #Fontainebleau; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Excitement at Barnes Pond: the cgynets have arrived!; #Barnes #London @WWTLondon #Swan #cgynet #pondlife #waterbirds #wildlife #London #youngswan #waterfowl #prints #art #naturalhistory #artforsale #muteswan @BCA4Barnes #villagelife; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Today's Fashion Friday: Millais's Young Woman dated 1880's; #FridayFeeling #Fashion #April #Millais #female #women #portrait #decorative #artforsale #art #French #etching #Rajon #antiqueprints #PreRaphaelite #Illustrator #realism; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
#OTD 1599 Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdon; #LordProtector #Cromwell #Huntingdon #soldier #statesman #politician @MuseumCromwell #April #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #Cambridge #portraits #prints #chart #familyhistory #Genealogy; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Remembrance in Australia & New Zealand: Let's honour Anzac Day; #wars #AnzacDay2024 #Australia #NewZealand #Peace #conflicts #April #Gallipoli #remember #LestWeForget #ArmedForces @AusEmbIQ #History #art #servicemen #women; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Shakespeare was born in April 1564, 460 years ago; Weather & Climate were never far from his work; #weather #Shakespearesbirthday #April #MerryWives #Windsor #rain #thunder #sky #Boydell #Tempest #plays #storm #Shakespeare #climate; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
It's Shakespeare Week: Celebrate Shakespeare Day!; #ShakespeareDay #April #StratfordUponAvon #April23 #plays #readings #sonnets @The_Globe #playwright #England #portraits #history #theatre #Elizabethan #history #Bard #characters; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?keyw…
Let's Celebrate St George's Day!; #Saints #April23 #StGeorgesDay #April #feast #knight #christian #history #dragon #ToyTheatre #prints #art #decorative #antiqueprints; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Henry Fielding, father of English Novels, was born #OTD 1707; #Somerset #April #Fielding #writer #Satire #comic #novelist #novels #TomJones #MezzotintMonday #mezzotints #literature #playwright #portraits #Rustic #Ward #Seagrim; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?keyw…
Planet vs Plastics: It's World Earth Day 2024; #April22 #WorldEarthDay #April #Spring #earthDay #planet #environmental @EUClimateAction #earth #climate #protection #antiqueprints #art #landscape #resources #elements #allegory; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?keyw…
Naval Plan of the Week: Battle of Trafalgar; #Nelson #battle #plan #map #naval #maritime #weekend #Cadiz #Spain #broadsheet #letterpress #HMSVictory #Vignettes #coastal #antiqueprints #sea #shipping #chart #Africa #French; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Saturday's Sprinter ahead of TCS London Marathon 2024; #April @LondonMarathon #runners #event #London #sprinter #WeekendVibes #race #spectator #sports #sporting #charity #antiqueprints #art #etching #crowd #modernetchings #Athletics; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
200 years ago, April 1824, Byron died, aged 36, in Missolonghi, Greece; #LordByron #April #poet #poetry #literary #Greece #OttomanEmpire #Turkey #CarolineLamb #history #Dream #landscape #art #Romantic #portraits #antiqueprints; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
George Wilson: Our Celebrity for Sunday's London Marathon; #Blackheath #LondonMarathon #runners #pedestrian #Woolwich #Greenwich #London #April #event @letsdothisrace @LondonMarathon #Charity #GeorgeWilson #weekendfun #sporting; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?keyw…
#OTD 1593 Shakespeare's poem Venus & Adonis was 1st work to be entered in Stationers' Company register; #poem #decorative #Cosway #Shakespeare #literary #April #Venus #Adonis #love #goddess #Opera #story #art #antiqueprints; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
Battle of Culloden was final confrontation of Jacobite rising of 1745; #April #battle #Jacobites #battleofculloden #CharlesEdwardStuart #Inverness #Scotland #highlands #BonniePrinceCharlie #DukeofCumberland #CullodenMoor #military; grosvenorprints.com/stock.php?ref=…
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Nouvelles de l'estamp.. @nouvdelestampe
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Frost Rare Books @FrostRareBooks
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London Historians @LondonHistorian
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Barnes Common @barnes_common
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🌱 London Garden @WstLondonGarden
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PBA Galleries @PBAGalleries
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Museum of the City of.. @MuseumofCityNY
43K Followers 2K Following Telling New York City’s stories since 1923. Open: Mon, Thurs, Fri 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun 10am-6pm. #MCNY100
Modern Art Oxford @mao_gallery
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Museo del Prado @museodelprado
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Opera Today @operatoday
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The Jockey Club @jockeyclub
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Alnwick Castle @alnwickcastle
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13K Followers 8K Following Adventures in #Historyland. Books (Colonial History/Combat & Culture), Articles & Videos https://t.co/1kWNPBL7r0
Thomas W. Hodgkinson @TWHodgkinson
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Pauline Bonaparte “.. @1frenchempire
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Brian Cassidy @briancassidy
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The Long Victorian @longvictorian2
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Pace Gallery @PaceGallery
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A Stitch in Time ✂�.. @AStitchinTime13
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Museums + Heritage Ad.. @MandHAdvisor
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Rob Griffith @Rob_Griffith_
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Dr Andrew Bamford @AndrewBamford10
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'Stop The Family Usurper' 😂🤣 📸 BuzzFeed: buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwa…
Front cover of Vogue, 1st April 1925
Bauble vipes with this Italian court dress of c.1848. #Frockingfabulous #fashionhistory via Museo del Tessuto.
Evening dress by Balenciaga, 1960. This unique dress was custom-made for Madame Alec Weisweiller's daughter's 18th birthday party, designed by Balenciaga himself. Learn more at VFG Label Resource vintagefashionguild.org/.../item/label… Credit: V&A Museum
Hungarian suba (sheepskin shepherd’s cape), ca. 1840-1870. Collection & Credit: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Isn’t this spectacular? 🤯 This is a mezzotint, a form of engraving, gifted to Soane by the artist John Martin. It apocalyptically depicts the Fall of Babylon in 539 BC, that storied city which stood in modern-day Iraq. The details are amazing: can you spot the war elephants? 🏹
Popular in the nineteenth century, the poke bonnet was a women’s hat that featured a large brim that extended beyond the wearer’s face. Read more! fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/poke-bonnet/
Happy #InternationalFlamingoDay🦩 #Lithograph in John Gould's "Birds of Europe", Vol. 4 publ. 1837. The original #artwork was by Edward Lear - see his signature bottom left. Interested in owning a copy? Order from the ZSL Online shop: shop.zsl.org/products/flami… #flamingoday
Parcels of antiquarian & secondhand books stuck in EU customs in Ireland, France, Germany worth nearly £1000, days & weeks late. Secondhand books are zero tariff but @parcelforce and customs systems treats them otherwise. Disastrous for small businesses @KemiBadenoch @RishiSunak
A #TypicalDay at London Zoo in 1879. The Daily Occurrences list information such as incoming and departing animals, staff on duty, and numbers of visitors. A typical day in ZSL Library & Archives in 2024 often involves researchers consulting the Daily Occurrences #Archive30
I’m watching a 30 minute youtube video of two old polish people showing how to sculpt a traditional butter lamb, and tearing up for some reason as she gently places the cloves in and says “and now we give him eyes to see”
Rain God Vessel. Place of origin: Mexico, Colima, El Chanal, Mixtec style. Period: Middle Post Classic period (1200–1400) c. 1100–1400. Medium: Polychromed ceramic. Collection: Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Texas.
Silver plated Jugendstil inkwell in the form of a stylised owl with glass eyes from 1906 by WMF, Germany.
"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration" Keats #WorldPoetryDay
The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief... — The Trees by Philip Larkin Combining two of our favourite things, poetry and trees, for #WorldPoetryDay and #InternationalDayOfForests 🌳
Popular in the 1680s, the French fontange (or commode in England) was a linen cap with layers of lace and ribbon, worn flat and pinned to the back of the head. Read more! fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/fontange/
Happy #InternationalSealDay Illustration in Volume 2 of 'Histoire naturelle des mammifères, ...' by M. Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier, published in 4 volumes 1824-42
Today's #RAFridayDoodle is inspired by Evelyn Ince’s splendid flower arrangement. Draw us a sign that spring is here 💐 Image caption in ALT text.
We only rate dogs. This is a tiny stegosaurus. We are glad that Jurassic Park is taking a slightly more manageable approach this time around, but please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10
#DYK that the okapi is sometime referred to as the 'forest giraffe'? 🦒 Lithograph of okapi by PJ Smit in Transactions of the Zoological Society (now @JZoology) 1901. Read the full paper here #free to access: …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Today is #InternationalDayofForests 🌳🌲
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