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@ulstermuseum.bsky.social@ulstermuseum.bsky.social → @ulstermuseum.orgWork of the Week! 🖼️ A Cornish Lane in Autumn by Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA. This beautiful oil on canvas captures the rich warmth and gentle light of a Cornish autumn day — a hallmark of Forbes’ masterful ability to portray everyday life and landscape with sensitivity and atmosphere.
Show PostThe video that no one asked us to make. But we did it anyway....
Show PostThe Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 12, the Book of Ballymote. Written in 1391 in Ballymote, Co. Sligo, this is a compilation of religious and secular material in the Irish language. There is also an image of figures on a boat on the front flyleaf, possibly a depiction of Noah’s Ark.
Show PostOn this day in 1666, Samuel Pepys recorded in his diary that King Charles II was wearing a vest. Pepys described this new garment as ‘a long cassock close to the body, of black cloth, and pinked with white silk under it, and a coat over it…’
Show PostToday's #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘contemporary portraiture’ for Club Culture Cumbria at The Armitt 🖼️ Germaine Greer by Paula Figueiroa Rego (1935–2022) at National Portrait Gallery, London
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