History addict (originally Classics, but trying to broaden my repertoire); monsters, mosaics and myths. (Also birds, butterflies etc.) @ianebbage.bsky.social
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Peacocks for #mosaicmonday, here with vine tendrils & a basket of grapes. Well-observed, good quality work with, in the lower border, a striking decorative tromp-l'oeil ribbon set against a dark background & picking up colouring from the birds' plumage. Antioch 2-4c CE
17th c Indo-Portuguese ebony furniture in the Long Gallery at Penshurst Place in Kent #textiletuesday
This morning's walk on the shore between Granton and Silverknowes: a few rather distant birds, Cormorant, Great Crested Grebe (2) and Red-breasted Merganser (3) with a handful of gulls, Oystercatchers & Turnstones, and distant views of the Forth Bridges #Edinburgh #birdwatching
"This Ancient Pre-Reformation Bell
being cracked was replaced by a new one Cast by J.Taylor & Co. Loughborough 1934."
St Peter's, Tickencote, Rutland #allmetalmonday
The Neue Wache on Unter den Linden in Berlin (1818) has been a memorial successively to
1) the Wars of Liberation (from Napoleon);
2) from 1931, 1st World War & the Unknown Soldier; &
3) since 1993, Victims of War and Tyranny.
#memorialmonday (📷 1980, when it was East Berlin)
"All the World's a Stage": a frieze based on the Seven Ages of Man, on the facade of the Playhouse in Alnwick, by David Edwick (1996) #stoneworksunday #shakespearesunday
The Virgin and Child, flanked by the Archangel Gabriel & St Michael, & on the outside by Adam and Eve: in the Corpus Christi Chapel in St Mary's, Stamford: Christopher Whall 1891, his first independent commission which helped to establish his reputation #stainedglasssunday
Beautiful perpendicular architecture predominates in St Swithun's in Retford (originally 13c) #steeplesaturday
The Town Hall in Alnwick, built in 1731 on the site of the former Tolbooth #staircasesaturday #saturdaysteps
The memorial plaque to George Renton (d.1640 aged 76) on the exterior of Pencaitland Church, in East Lothian, featuring a coat of arms with the Renton lion, on a stone in a warm dull rose colour #LesArmoiriesduVendredi
#31DaysofGraves Day 30 Colour
Clusters of grapes in the lower margin of the lovely memorial window to Lt Anthony Harvey Bowman who was killed in 1916: in Carlisle Cathedral, by Veronica Whall #31DaysofGraves Day 29 Fruit and Vegetables
In Berwick-upon-Tweed's town walls, giving quick access to the Quayside from Bridge Street #thursgate
Traditional fishermen's cottages in the inner harbour in Polperro #windowsonwednesday
An antelope with serrated horns, a plumed tail and a very fancy collar: a misericord in St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick #woodensday
