The Moon is a disc of hidden books. Reach an arm into it and feel around with your hands and you bring out books already written and many books yet to be written for the Moon holds past, present, future. - Carl Sandburg

"Totally surrounded by crosses, Christ accepts his penitence. He is followed by a young woman in the same pose wearing a wreath of flowers and identified as the Christian Soul. While this work is undoubtedly by a French artist, no convincing suggestion as to its attribution has been made to date." -MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO "It is to be regretted that one of the most fascinating and enigmatic paintings in the Museo Prado is not even on display. Although documented in the royal collections at least since the mid-nineteenth century, it nevertheless remains relatively little known. Nor is there any secure attribution. I was instinctively reminded of Philippe de Champaigne, but that is ultimately beside the point, for it is the subject that truly matters. Christ carries the Cross and turns back toward a young woman who has fallen while carrying a cross of her own. Her loosened dress and vulnerable pose recall Mary Magdalene, yet the Prado identifies her as a personification of the Christian Soul. The scene unfolds within an impossible landscape composed almost entirely of crosses. Not one or two, but hundreds: standing, fallen, piled upon one another, receding into darkness. The effect is so improbable that, had the painting been lost and survived only in a written description, one might reasonably suspect that it never existed at all-or that it had been generated by Al from a particularly eccentric prompt. The iconography is unique to my knowledge. The painting appears to merge the familiar scene of Christ Carrying the Cross with the injunction found in Matthew 10:38: 'And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.'" -Alexander Röstel

Did you know Soane owned over 6,000 books, including many first editions?📚 Museum Director @Will_Gompertz shares a closer look at one of his favourite books in the collection – a first edition of Goethe’s ‘Faust’, with exquisite illustrations by Eugene Delacroix ✏️

Researching dental popular beliefs prior to 1950s & NHS. It was not uncommon for people to get their teeth removed by the age of 30. As one woman in a 1943 survey commented: “it’s a pity not to be able to keep your own. But it saves a lot of bother.” The good old days

"The Christian Soul accepts the Cross", c. 1630

On this day in 1920, Lovecraft wrote his short story 'The Cats of Ulthar'. It was one of the few stories he actually liked. Pictured: a letter to Rheinhart Kleiner wherein the plot germ for the story originated (see last two paras. d. 21st May 1920).

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© Olga Dugina "The Land of Faraway" Detail @CreativeCoMN duginart.com watercolor, color pencils #illustration #bookillustration #watercolor #book #artistonx

15 June 1664 Up and by appointment with Captain Witham … I home to look after things for dinner. And anon at noon comes Mr. Creed by chance, and by and by the three young ladies: and very merry we were with our pasty, very well baked; and a good dish of roasted chickens; pease, lobsters, strawberries. And after dinner to cards: and about five o’clock, by water down to Greenwich; and up to the top of the hill, and there played upon the ground at cards. And so to the Cherry Garden,* and then by water singing finely to the Bridge, and there landed; and so took boat again, and to Somersett House…. then into the towne, Creed and I, it being about twelve o’clock and past; and to several houses, inns, but could get no lodging, all being in bed. At the last house, at last, we found some people drinking and roaring; and there got in, and after drinking, got an ill bed. *This Cherry Garden was a popular 17th-century riverside pleasure garden in Rotherhithe (near Greenwich), celebrated for its extensive cherry orchards. Londoners visited for fresh seasonal fruit, walks, bowling greens (notably at adjacent Jamaica House), and riverside recreation. Part of semi-rural market gardens along the Thames, it offered affordable outdoor leisure until built over in the 19th century. The name survives in Cherry Garden Street, Stairs, and a modern riverside garden with replanted cherry trees. “The “Cherry Garden” was a fevourite place of public entertainment in the reign of Charles II, and we know that that rural name was not misaapplied as we have the authority of Pepys for saying that cherries grew in the gardens, and that on June 13th, 1664, the Diarist picked some and carried them home.” The Victorian Web The site of the gardens is marked by Cherry Garden stairs, a landing pier for Thames steamers and small boats. The Cherry Garden. T. R. Way. Signed and dated 1899.

Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), "Evening at Home" / Welder Wings, "The Girlfriend of Death"

This looks it’ll be a fascinating read! @17thCenturyLady Some of the chapter titles are very amusing too

Charles Sargeant Jagger, "A Maker of Modelling Tools", 1914

Inside the Bodleian press

Gabriel-Germain Joncherie (Paris, 1798-1856), "Les œufs frits" / "Le bol du lait du chat"

Sitting down with this little gem.

Erhard Schön (1491-1542), A Monk as the Devil's Bagpipes, 1535.

Georges Redon

Volants de badminton ? Première iconographie des oiseaux de paradis. Les dépouilles qui parvenaient en Europe étant naturalisées sans patte ni aile faisaient supposer ainsi l'oiseau vivant. - Exposition quai Branly, XVIIe s., dessin naturaliste et modèle pour tapisseries

Johann Sebastian Bach Hilary Hahn 🎻 Sonata for Violin Solo No. 1 in G Minor BWV 1001 - 4. Presto