The red jacket 1895 Federico Zandomeneghi Italian art

‘You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; (…) Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, …’ T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922 * * * Blue Hyacinth, c. 1937 Oil painting by Tove Jansson

Angus Wilson (Scottish Artist, born 1970) "Still Life", 2023. Acrylic on Panel,

The Peasants’ Revolt Henry Justice Ford 1911

Sunset on the Grande Brière 1926 Ferdinand du Puigaudeau French

#OwlishMonday 🎨Catherine Earle

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold Sonnet 73 Chad Dutson #ShakespeareSunday

Henri Fantin-Latour Roses and Lilies 1888 59.7 x 45.7 cm Oil on canvas Signed and dated upper right: Fantin. 88 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

"The nights are drawing in" thought Little Mouse. art by Emily Duffin

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold Sonnet 73 Chad Dutson #ShakespeareSunday

The Railway Station 1932 Alf Rolfsen National Museum, Oslo

Just then there came a vague vibration in the earth and air, quickly changing into a violent pulsation … I looked down again, and saw him refurling the flag he had shown while the train went by. The Signalman / Charles Dickens Philip D. Hawkins #BookWormSat

Prince Charming and the wooing of La Belle La Belle et la Bête Felix de Gray, 1926 #BookologyThursday

Labyrinth art by Katie Gamb #WyrdWednesday

#OwlishMonday 🎨James Johnson

River Bank c. 1905 Armand Guillaumin

Night and silence. - Who is here? A Midsummer Night’s Dream II, 2 Arthur Rackham #ShakespeareSunday

Buried like moles beneath the crushing weight of the earth, and without a breath of fresh air in their burning lungs, they simply went on tapping. Germinal / Émile Zola National Library of Wales Tom C Brown #BookWormSat

"You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional!" 'The Portrait of a Lady' Henry James (1880-1881) #BookWormSat

Buried like moles beneath the crushing weight of the earth, and without a breath of fresh air in their burning lungs, they simply went on tapping. Germinal / Émile Zola National Library of Wales Tom C Brown #BookWormSat

Jasmine Flowers Anastasiia Osmolovska Ukraine #FlowersOnFriday

Born in 1873 Maori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the first indigenous woman to matriculate at University of Oxford. She enrolled in 1922 to read Anthropology at Pitt Rivers Museum but tragically died just before graduating. She will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford next week.

John Duncan Fergusson 1874-1961 scottish colourist Le manteau Chinois

Monforte Gardens IV ca. 1917 Santiago Rusiñol

Party in the Cabbage Patch art by Fritz Baumgarten Gartenfest in Blumenhausen by Erich Heinemann #WyrdWednesday

Thus Perish the Memory of Our Love 1865 John George Brown #legendarywednesday

A Knock at the Door (1897) by Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

'Camellia' by Lise Cloquet (1788-1860) French botanical painter known for her artistic detail derived from close observation of the natural world. Botanical art was one way women could become involved in the sciences #WomensArt

The patient: The Sick Woman c. 1663-66 Jan Havicksz. Steen Rijksmuseum

I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way, Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring, Percy B Shelley Charles Conder #ClassicLitMonday #BookChatWeekly

"How do you handle stressful situations?" Me:

The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared with that of Toad! The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Richard Johnson #BookWormSat

Happy #Caturday by Janet Pidoux

Pieter de Hooch Two Women in a Courtyard 1657-60 69.2 x 54 cm Oil on canvas Signed lower left: P.D.Hooch Royal Collection, London

The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared with that of Toad! The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Richard Johnson #BookWormSat

A Landscape with Foxgloves Alfred James Munnings 1878-1959

#bookologythursday PERSEPHONE🍎 "For love, I will handle your sins, And for justice? I will show you mine.." ..became the wife of Hades, during autumn, when the leaves are falling, the trees go silent..and the icy, dark days of winter are upon us.. #bookchatweekly

#WyrdWednesday "And, mother, find three berries red And pluck them from the stalk, And burn them at the first cockcrow, That my spirit may not walk." From 'At Last' by Elizabeth Siddal, whose body was exhumed by DG Rossetti so that he could retrieve the manuscript poems he'd placed in her coffin.

I want you to believe … to believe in things that you cannot. Dracula Bram Stoker #wyrdwednesday

The winds must come from somewhere when they blow, There must be reason why the leaves decay; Time will say nothing but I told you so. W H Auden Edward Okuń 🇵🇱 #legendarywednesday #bookchatweekly

"Butterflies" by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, 1891 Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson (1847 – 1906) was an American-born artist who was recognized as one of the leading American women artists in Paris during the 1880s. #art #painting #illustration

A Landscape with Foxgloves Alfred James Munnings 1878-1959

Barn Owl Robert Gillmor #owlishmonday

Barn Owl Robert Gillmor #owlishmonday

A scholar in his study Thomas Wyck 1616 - 1677 Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm

In the “Pelican Portrait” of 1574, Elizabeth I pulls out all the stops with unbelievably elaborate outfit. You can hardly stop looking at the amazing detail of each piece & layer. Happy birthday to one who knew how to accessorize.

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, A Midsummer Night’s Dream III, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

"...beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd" Sonnet 104 #ShakespeareSunday Theme: Colors

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, A Midsummer Night’s Dream III, 2 #ShakespeareSunday

'I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Was swallowed up in leaves that blew away' -Robert Frost 🎨Walter Crane #BookWormSat