Small Tortoiseshell. #ButterflyWeek

A Marbled White butterfly feeding on clover. #ButterflyWeek

#butterflyweek we saw lots of lovely butterflies on the Isle of Iona last week. Including male and female common blue. #iona #commonblue #isleofiona

Red Admiral #ButterflyWeek

Celebrating the final day of #ButterflyWeek with a white peacock #butterfly found on a birding trip earlier this year. #Nature #Wildlife #Butterflies #Insects #Photography

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Red roses for #StainedGlassSunday (made around 1350)

Interior design inspirations from about 1510 #ceilingsOnSunday #chandelierSunday (Originally located in a Bavarian town hall, now on display at Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich)

Schöner wohnen #lüsterliebe

A black swallowtail coming in for a landing for #ButterflyWeek #Photography #Butterflies #Flowers #BloomScrolling

Speckled wood in Ely yesterday. #ButterflyWeek

'Alte oder besondere Bäume' #FotoVorschlag "That Wanaka Tree" in Neuseeland

#ceilingsonSunday Gunnersbury House

The dining-room at Attingham Park (NT) in Shropshire #ceilingsonsunday

#StainedGlassSunday 🪟 Gorgeous reflection of the stained glass on the tomb of Bishop Thomas Hatfield (d.1381) 🌞 📍Durham Cathedral #Durham #History

The Four Seasons - William Morris. Cragside NT. #StainedglassSunday

#CeilingsOnSunday Chiesa di San Francesco, Lucca #aofoto

Shine like it is #ChandelierSunday 🙃

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'The Hall, Argyll House – A Summer Day', Chelsea (1925) by Sir John Lavery (Private collection)

Wishing you all a peaceful night with our friend the owl…can you spot our friend the fox? Sweet dreams, everyone ♥️ (art Jo Grundy)

fairy contemplation

a #butterfly resting on a leaf for #ButterflyWeek #insects #bugs

IT'S THE CAT BUS!!!!!!

Extravagant hairstyle: la Frégate la Junon French ca. 1779

Hairstyle ideas for hot summer days inspired by Classical antiquity

the poor fish at the bottom seems to have a bad day

There is something decidedly modern about this detail of a painted mummy cloth from around 100 BC - 100 AD

im Lavendelfeld #ButterflyWeek #GreenSat #ColorADay #SchönesGegenDoofes #Schmetterling #Nature #Photography #ECK

Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly from south Texas #ButterflyWeek

A #Gulffritillary for #ButterflyWeek is resting on the #flower of a pink #Pintas #bloomscrolling #Backyard #butterfly #BlueSkyArtShow #growing #ColorADay #GreenSat #nature #outdoors #ECK #photography 🦋🩷💚

A post for #ButterflyWeek This is a Mexican Blue Wing. I found out they like to feed off tree sap #Butterfly #Butterfliles #Insects #Photography #Nature

A post for #ButterflyWeek This Julia Heliconia is the prettiest butterfly I've ever seen #Butterfly #Butterfliles #Insects #Photography #Nature #ECK

An Appalachian Brown butterfly on a leaf, showing those cool eye spots. #ButterflyWeek #nature #photography #naturephotography #ECK #Wildlife #insects

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Anne Pitt as Hebe, 1792 Shows the English noblewoman. She was part of the extended Pitt clan, a force in British politics in the 18thC. She married Wm Grenville; was Baroness Grenville when he held office as PM as leader of the Ministry of All the Talents, 1806-1807.

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to #entomology – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

Here it is, thanks to @willjennings.bsky.social #18thc collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O87198/...

I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱 Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...

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Please circulate! We're looking forward to receiving abstracts from #medievalsky, #georgian, #victorianstudies, #romanticism, #18thC, #19thC, and #antiquarian!

Cascades of yellow silk flow from the waist and catch into a loose bow in late #1860s style. It is a moment of transition as the crinoline begins to transform into the first bustle era, all of the action focused on the back of the ensemble #philamuseumart #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

For day three of #ButterflyWeek here is a pair of Brimstone butterflies in courtship flight. #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #macro #macrophotography #insects #photography #butterfly #brimstone

Another entry for #butterflyweek A giant swallowtail visiting a Bidens flower. #pollinators #bugsky #nature #butterflies 🦋 #insects #ECK

Painted Lady 📷 17.07.26 #ButterflyWeek #Butterfly #WildlifePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky

New 'Beautiful Books' Exhibition Showcases 200 Years of Jane Austen Publishing History www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...

I must keep to my own style & go on in my own Way; And though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. #JaneAusten to James Stanier Clarke, 1 April 1816 #Letters Jane Austen d #OTD 1817

On this day 18th July 1817, Jane Austen died in Winchester, aged 41. Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Our Land in the Making, 1966)

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