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Lots of people questioning whether the King should visit the United States. I think he definitely should; to recolonise it.

MPs outside earnings.

'But he's all for the working man and woman, isn't he?'

Clasps, for the dedicated follower of fashion 😊

Both corset and clog.

Just a couple of decorated corset clasps, but they went to town to add a bit of bling to their clogs 🥰

A number of similar frames have appeared on the art market in Barcelona during recent years...

See more at: theframeblog.com/2026/03/06/1...

17th – 18th century silvered & lacquered frames from Barcelona by Gema de Cambra Florensa Introduction This article attempts to describe, identify and locate the origin of a group of unusual Spanish Baroque frames. Several examples of these architrave, flat or plate frames, finished in silverleaf, lacquered, and decorated in monochrome with scrolling foliate ornamentation on the frieze, have passed through the author's workshop. They date from the 17th and early 18th centuries, share identical construction methods, were made from the same materials, and have very similar decoration.

17th – 18th century silvered & lacquered frames from Barcelona

by Gema de Cambra Florensa Introduction This article attempts to describe, identify and locate the origin of a group of unusual Spanish Baroque frames. Several examples of these architrave, flat or plate frames, finished in silverleaf,…

Archives FRAME ARTICLES BY PERIOD Roman period: 3rd century BC – 3rd century AD 13th-14th century 14th-15th century 15th century 15th-16th century 16th century 16th-17th century 17th century 17th-18th…

Well, I suppose you could read everything on The Frame Blog; that might help...!

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There is even more fascination on The Frame Blog entière, as it were... 🙂

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It's definitely not hit-&-miss; it's art history...! 🙂 🙂

The before and after states of reframing projects at the National Gallery are remarkable illustrations of just how much difference a frame can make to the painting it holds...
(here, Mantegna's Holy Family & John the Baptist)

See more at: theframeblog.com/2026/02/18/r...

When I hear someone say, “russia wants peace,” it feels like they’re mocking us.
While they say this, we are hiding our children in shelters from russian missiles and drones.

Healthcare in Greenland is publicly funded, free at the point of use, and despite geographical challenges considered very good.

Healthcare costs in the USA are extortionate and responsible for 60% of all US bankruptcies.

So maybe Denmark should be sending hospital ships the other way.

#Trump is a #loser 🥴

The Wallace Collection is hosting a series of talks on women connected with it, including a framemaker - the 19th century sculptor & frame designer, Félicie de Fauveau. Amongst other things, she produced these two (National Gallery & Wallace).

See more at www.wallacecollection.org/documents/22...

@truedoriangrey.bsky.social Thank you so much for the reposts - how kind of you 🙂

Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 5 This is the fifth of a series of short articles on the reframing projects undertaken by the National Gallery, London, under the Head of Framing, Peter Schade. The articles were originally published in the National Gallery’s Review of the Year, from 2008-09 onwards, and are republished here by kind permission of the Gallery, and with added illustrations. 5: Review of the year April 2012 – March 2013: Framing, by Peter Schade…

Reframing at the National Gallery, London: Part 5

This is the fifth of a series of short articles on the reframing projects undertaken by the National Gallery, London, under the Head of Framing, Peter Schade. The articles were originally published in the National Gallery’s Review of the Year, from…

Review: ‘John Singer Sargent & the framing of his pictures’ The ninth and final volume of the great catalogue raisonné of Sargent’s works, which was begun in 1947 by David McKibbin, passed to Richard Ormond in 1978, and has been issued in successive install…

Splendid! I shall be reposting arrows towards the Gainsborough article, as it happens, because of the exh at the Frick. Jacob also wrote the essay on Sargent's frames in the monumental cat rais of his work, & I reviewed it here, in case of interest:
theframeblog.com/2020/06/21/r...

Hogarth’s Framemaker Jacob Simon, Research Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery in London, has followed the documentary trail which links Hogarth to the Huguenot framemaker, Isaac Gosset. William Hogarth, Mr Gosset,…

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it, and I've let Jacob know. If you would like to read his other articles for The Frame Blog, they are here:
theframeblog.com/2012/10/19/h...
theframeblog.com/2014/03/05/w...
theframeblog.com/2021/02/10/t...
theframeblog.com/2025/12/06/t...

Perhaps they're teaching Larry to keep the skies clear of pigeons...

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

She did try to bring down Elizabeth (which would have meant the latter's death), to be fair... and she was hardly the icy player-off of potential suitors, brilliant diplomat and hard-headed leader that Elizabeth was. She would have sold us to France.

Executed (alas!) on this day in 1587, Mary Queen of Scots. Here just seven years old and already a queen at the court of France. Drawn by Clouet.

This Is It: Trump Is Openly Saying He Wants to Seize Control of American Elections We can stop him now, or the American constitutional republic will be over.

open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...

I think that Sir Francis must have had a Kew-like number of gardeners...

Good Q @SarahKSilvermam

Rare Semper Augustus striped tulips crown these flowers arranged in a glass vase by Elias van den Broeck, whose day is today.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.

An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world