Lynne S

🎨 Until tomorrow …

'View in the Botanic Garden, Brisbane, Queensland'
Marianne North, 1880s #art

The Butterfly
1870

John Henry Dolph

#Caturday

Happy #Caturday

🎨Lucie Bilodeau

Trick or Treat 👻

art by Edna Eicke

The New Yorker
October, 1945
#WyrdWednesday #legendaryWednesday

"Angel playing the lute" by Rosso Fiorentino, 1521. (The Uffizi)

An owl sits on a branch in a tree surrounded by autumn leaves.

'Eagle Owl' - Yoshida Toshi, 1968.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Print of a purple poppy on a stem with leaves, with another stem having a bud about to flower from thd same plant, against a cream background

Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

One of the numerous covers of "The Hollow" by Agatha Christie. This cover shows steps leading into a pool. There are slight ripples on the water's surface and autumn leaves can be seen scattered on the steps and floating in the water.

"I love autumn. It’s so much richer than spring."
And suddenly one of those moments of intense happiness came to her—a sense of the loveliness of the world—of her own intense enjoyment of that world....“I shall never be as happy again as I am now—never.”

-The Hollow
#AgathaChristie
#BookWormSat

The hour of midnight must be near
So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night

Longfellow
The Neighbouring Nunnery

Rob Blair #BookWormSat

Léo Marie Gausson :
The Red Tree House, 1890

Narcissi with Lilac

Anne Cotterill

#FlowersOnFriday

Collage featuring an illustration by Maginel Wright Enright of fairies tending daisylike flowers with golden centres, beside photographs of a yellow marigold, a buttercup with an insect, and several white daisies with yellow hearts, all glowing with sunlight.

Long ago the fairies played too long catching sunbeams. When night fell, they hid them in their flower cradles and slept. By dawn, the beams had spilled out, turning some flowers gold – the buttercup and the marigold – and leaving a golden heart in all the rest. #FolkloreThursday

Sketches of a hedgehog in various positions in pen and ink on white paper

Sketches for Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1905 by Beatrix Potter, who was also a natural scientist as well as a UK children's book author and illustrator. She observed and sketched real wild animals when creating her characters #womensart

Pulcinello
Commedia dell'Arte
c. 1922–1924

Gino Severini

Barnes Collection #WyrdWednesday

The Love Potion
1903

Evelyn de Morgan

#legendarywednesday

A sail boat on a lake at dusk. A crescent moon in the sky, tall trees on the shore.

'Early Autumn in Itako' - Kawase Hasui, 1942.
#JapaneseArt

"Canis Major, Lepus, Columba Noachi & Cela Sculptoris", plate 30 in Urania's Mirror, a set of celestial cards accompanied by A familiar treatise on astronomy ... by Jehoshaphat Aspin. London. Astronomical chart, 1 print on layered paper board : etching, hand-colored. ca 1825

Sirius, god & personification of the star Sirius & brightest star in the night sky, is known as the #Dog Star & constellation Canis Major. In ancient text Sirius is portrayed as the scorching bringer of summer heatwaves, aka 'dog days of summer'. 🐶 #mythsky #astronomy

🎨 Jehoshaphat Aspin, ca 1825

I had been passing alone, on horseback … and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

Edgar Allan Poe / The Fall of the House of Usher

Arthur Rackham #FairyTaleTuesday

🎨 Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Portrait de l'impératrice Eugénie
1853. Paris Musée d'Orsay
Le diadème volé au musée du Louvre

California Lilac
1935

Mary Vaux Walcott

Jeanne la Rousse
before 1912

Jules Joseph Lefebvre
French art

Sunflowers / les Tournesols
ca. 1910

Ernest Biéler
Swiss
#SundayYellow

English embroiderer and Pre-Raphaelite artist's model Jane Morris was born #OnThisDay in 1849. It is believed that the embroidery of intertwined floral sprays for this c. 1878 blue silk bag with a metal mount was designed and worked by Morris. V&A collection. #fashionhistory

Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
#BookWormSat

🖋 Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose
#BookChatWeekly

🎨Alphonse Mucha

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook … leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark window-panes, snow.

Donna Tartt / The Secret History

Jo Grundy #BookWormSat

Ann with Cat, 1924, by Margaret Clarke, Irish painter #WomensArt

The Edge of the Woods
1912

Charles Courtney Curran

‘Convalescence in the Apple Orchard.’ #Painting by John Lavery (1885) #art

‘The Princes in the Tower.’ #Painting by John Everett Millais (1878) #art

The two princes are Richard of Shrewsbury (left) & Edward V of England (right). They are the sons of King Edward IV of England & Elizabeth Woodville. The assassin's shadow is on the stairs.

Reading on the Garden Path
1883

Albert Aublet
French