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Still struggling to place the origin of this very large late 18th/ early 19th century print. Ideas welcome.

A follower of #SamuelProut (1783-1852) made this drawing of a cottage.

Late #Victorian (even #PreRaphaelite?) artist #MarmadukeLangdale (1840-1905) produced this atmospheric watercolour - with some kind of bizarre 'gouachey/oil' (?) paint.

Italian or Swiss #penandink #drawing, c.1800, of an #alpine #landscape. This shows a simply exquisite technique and refined observation in league with Romantic movement sensibility and ideals. A wonderful drawing.

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Guess who is going to be the head of the Center for the sociology of innovation from tomorrow, following Michel Callon, Antoine Hennion, Madeleine Akrich and Alexandre Mallard?

(Quite intimidating, I must say)

Images of encounters between people from 19th century drawings

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Current #reading (for #review). At over 700 pages it's a very hefty book. Luckily I don't need to read everything! Some fascinating content though. #Poetry #ScottishPoetry #Scotland #Poems #Gaelic #English #Scots #Books #Bookstodon #EighteenthCentury #18thCentury #Literature

A paperback book (heftier than the photo makes it look), Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830, edited by Daniel Cook and published by Oxford World's Classics. The cover includes a romantic scene of a towering Scottish mountain (or at least very large hill!) above a loch.

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Two windows from at least three eras in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic.

#FensterFriday #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #FlashbackFriday #Czech #Windows #Architecture #UrbanPhotography #StreetPhotography #19thCentury #18thCentury #17thCentury

The first floor of this building is a jumble of roughly textured rocks of different sizes forming the wall, which seems to have been made in the 18th, maybe even 17th century. Set into the wall is a small square window, blocked by a grid of iron bars, and framed by bricks and (mortar?) that appears to have been set into the wall at a later date - perhaps mid to late 18th century? The second story is radically different, perhaps late 19th Century; a smooth, elegant gray wall, with offsetting gray trim.set in the middle of the wall is a glass paned window, framed by an elaborate gray, abstract scroll design.

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Did you know you can now both visualize the corpus of the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive in @VoyantTools:
https://voyant-tools.org/?corpus=75739783cfd1343213dabdafd675dcb5
and explore it computationally in the #Spyral notebook environment:
https://voyant-tools.org/spyral/alhuber1502@gh/ECPA/

#c18th #poetry #18thCentury #BSECS #notebooks #DH @BSECS

Screenshot of the #ECPA corpus in @VoyantTools

Abbott's Hospital in Guildford (England) looks like a mini Oxbridge college.

John Baragwanath King (1864-1939) paints 'A Cornish Moorland Evening' (undated).

I can't help but pick up the odd postcard of an artwork - even with digital images so freely available having an old fashioned p/c above your desk lifts the heart a little. These are from the past few days.

Holbourne of Menstrie Museum in Bath is a delight. It's just a pity there's no catalogue!

Ok, it's only the #lithograph version of #JohnDicksonBatten's 1899 #chromoxylograph entitled (unsurprisingly) 'Tiger', from #TheStudio (1900), but it was today's find and it is a rather lovely thing of 'la #BelleÉpoque à l’anglaise'.

Sold as a #RolandVivianPitchforth (1895-1982) #watercolour but signed 'R. Vivian'. Bought today with confidence because whether it is or isn't hardly matters at £2. A nice early 20thc seascape for less than the price of a coffee.

This pencil and grey wash sketch of #TrematonCastle near #Saltash in #Cornwall was made by #PaulSandbyMunn in 1806.

Trementon Castle is shown, drawn in grey wash, on a hill.

The artist who made this oil on card was a magazine illustrator who went by the name of Gaston Rit (1885-1965) - and when you see his other work you can see why the name was so very appropriate. His one-frame cartoons in Le Dimanche Illustré in the 1930s were witty but rarely satirical, and very much of their time. One shows two men talking in the street. Man 1: 'So you don't believe in anything?' Man 2: 'I only believe what I understand!' Man 1: 'That's what I was saying!'

Amateur watercolour dated '#Bangalore July 30th 1876'. Does anyone know where this is in #Bengaluru today? #India #Karnataka.

Watercolour of a stone or brick monument in Bangalore, 1876.

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"Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man."
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)

David Hume died #OTD in 1776. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. He argued against the existence of innate ideas, positing that all human knowledge derives solely from experience. @wikipedia

Books by David Hume at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1440

#books #literature

Title page of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume which is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9662

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@markgray92 I was there myself for a couple of days earlier this week, mostly photographing cathedral stained glass, but also had St Thomas’ completely to myself for nearly half an hour on Tuesday afternoon. Plenty of time to contemplate “Doom”.

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