Rant alert! How is it possible to ask a 220 euros fee for reproducing an image - a SINGLE, SOLITARY IMAGE - in an academic article? How is this fostering research and the exchange of knowledge? I won't name the museum, but they have been pretty determined in gatekeeping their collections.

Hello peeps! Does anyone recognise this coat of arms? #drawing #heraldic

🚨It's a bit of a long shot, but can anyone recognise the MS from which this was copied? It's supposed to be from the Treaty of Chartres (or Montreuil, 1299). One of the men is Edward I. The images of the #copperplates have been flipped. #printstudies #bookhistory

Our Curatorial Research Assistant is surveying our prints & drawings collection to uncover just how many we have to be officially catalogued. So far over 40,000 prints & drawings have been found, with the total estimate around 55,000! We're looking forward to seeing what gems will be found.

This one of the 40,000 surveyed at this point, an illustrated print showing the sudatorium discovered at Bath in 1727. Drawn by Bernard Lens, it was originally in the collection of the Earl of Oxford.

Hot off the press! 🔥 Grab the latest issue of The Book Collector to read about my exciting discoveries on the Rawlinson #printingplates

🚨Can anyone recommend some readings on female vs male portraits in the early modern period?🚨 I'm interested in the different ways in which men and women were depicted and why (in interiors, exteriors, near their desk, bookshelves, etc.) Maybe @artherstory.bsky.social can help me?

Can anyone help decipher at least part of this lettering? The image is a rendering of the verso of a #printing plate in the Rawlinson collection.

That's a fish painted in the 1780s. A still life by Giuseppe Artioli. And there is also a used handmade paper sheet, with calculations on it. In #earlymodern Europe, paper was used and re-used regularly. 1/3 #PaperHistory #skystorians

Super excited to announce that today I started my new role as Curatorial Research Assistant at the Society of Antiquaries. I'll be scoping the amazing Prints & Drawings collection to apply for funding to #digitise and #research all the artworks

It is very pleasing to see that when looking for literature to support my argument, Google Scholar suggests the stuff I wrote. Not very helpful, though. #phd #phdlife #writing

In case you needed a cross-stitching pattern with Napoleon, you can find it at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social 🤣

24 Jan 1684: John Evelyn notes in his Diary #otd that the shops on the Thames extended 'to a printing presse, where the people & ladys tooke a fansy to have their names printed & the day & yeare set downe, when printed on the Thames' Printing on ice! (British Museum)

The reality of working from home with a baby 🙈 #phdlife #workingmum

Can any of my clever friends identify this plate or the publication in which it was used? It must date before 1670, as the recto of the plate has an etching by Hollar published that year. The image was flipped and turned into greyscale. #BlocksPlatesStones #phd #research #printingplates

Am I the only one who thinks that £7.9 for a cappuccino+pastry or £5.5 for a Pret sandwich is criminal?

Just opened my mailbox to discover that my first article has been published today! If you want to know more about the Society of Antiquaries' printing plates and their relevance for antiquarian & scientific illustration head to doi.org/10.1017/S000...

A couple of snaps from yesterday's conference ARCHiOx 'Seeing the unseen' at @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social Well done, Mark Crosby and Angelamaria Aceto for such mind-blowing papers!

When you write a paper in English and it's not your first language, but the editors don't do their job properly. 😅 🍑 #academia #phd #research

I hope I won't have to use that part of my keyboard 🙈😅 #writing #phd #beagle

Had a wonderful day at Waddesdon Manor with my dear friend and PhD colleague Marie Giraud. It was great to have the Rothschild library or ourselves and get some writing done #phd #academiclife #printhistorian

First post here! Trying to migrate from the other place... Fantastic talks yesterday at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social on the occasion of "Reading in the Woods". It's always amazing to hear about new discoveries on #woodblocks and #printing things. Fourth photo: special guest of the day ❤️