Category: drawing
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Sir Charles Bell’s watercolours
The harsh reality of war and nineteenth-century surgery is encountered in the anatomical watercolours of Charles Bell. They depict his patients and their injuries, especially the horrific wounds dealt with by army surgeons in Wellington’s army. “Johnnie! How can we let this pass? Here is such an occasion of seeing gun-shot wounds come to […]
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Jane Austen ‘lost portrait’
Jane Austen biographer discovers ‘lost portrait’ Jane Austen scholar Dr Paula Byrne claims to have discovered a lost portrait of the author which, far from depicting a grumpy spinster, shows a writer at the height of her powers and a woman comfortable in her own skin. The only accepted portraits of Austen to date are […]
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WW1 poppies
Poppy plucked from the trenches goes on show BRITAIN’S oldest remembrance day poppy was on show for the first time yesterday. Private Cecil Roughton was just 17 when he picked the flower during a bloody battle in Arras, France, in May 1916 [1917?]. The soldier, from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, kept it in his notebook […]
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Scott’s penguin
Captain Scott’s Antarctic penguin sketches Two chalk drawings of penguins by the explorers Captain Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton have been discovered in a basement at Cambridge University.The priceless sketches, which date from 1904 and 1909, were probably done during the lecture tours given by the pair after they returned from their Antarctic voyages. The […]
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Plan of St Gall Project
St. Gall Monastery Plan The Plan of St. Gall is the earliest preserved and most extraordinary visualization of a building complex produced in the Middle Ages. Ever since the Plan was created at the monastery of Reichenau sometime in the period 819-26 A.D., it has been preserved in the Monastic Library of St. Gall (Switzerland). […]
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Calleva palace?
Palace at Silchester may have been a sop to loyalty Numerous finds of architectural fragments, often made from Purbeck marble and other decorative stones, have been made at Silchester, near Basingstoke, ever since excavations began there nearly 150 years ago. The problem has been, Professor Michael Fulford explains in a new study, that “for the […]
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