furber's flowers ... from art work by casteels ... engravings by fletcher ... the british museum have a full-house

of course, every print from the monochrome plate had to be hand coloured ...

























the set of twelve months



























march


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Furber


somewhere there is a double set, all twelve flowers & all twelve fruits, bound in one volume ...
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/robert-furber-3822631-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=3822631

strolling actresses dressing in a barn ... one of william hogarths spectacular imaginings ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strolling_Actresses_Dressing_in_a_Barn#:~:text=Strolling%20Actresses%20Dressing%20in%20a%20Barn%20is%20a%20painting%20from,set%20in%20the%20same%20year.

earlier stuff from pierre landry ... the senses ...

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Landry

beware cupid's arrow ... based on aesop's tale about cupid and death getting their arrows mixed up ... i'd seen a poor reproduction and had almost despaired of finding the better ... the getty museum have it

https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/beware-cupids-arrow-french-print-reveals-dangers-of-romantic-mix-ups/

and the better one is accessible at the getty website with all the scholarly notes ...

https://rosettaapp.getty.edu/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1320147

hurrah !

paul delvaux ... i shall come back to him quite often because his skills astonish me ...

https://www.christies.com/features/10-things-to-know-about-Paul-Delvaux-8884-1.aspx

everyone who lives in tenby will already know about the VARISCAN OROGENY ... but i am struggling to take in the details ...

it is the story that explains why tenby's cliffs are bent and twisted so ...

https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap4-Plate-Tectonics-of-the-UK/Variscan-Orogeny

points i've taken in so far ...

this folding is not just local ... it was part of an event that affected a great part of the european land mass, and parts of north america and north africa whilst they all pushed up together

it happened long long ago and took a very long time ... all the folding and tilting and faulting and thrusting might have taken one hundred million years ... in very slow motion

when these rocks were being compressed and folded, they were a long way from where we stand today ... the earth's crust is made of great rafts that drift and are pushed and pulled across the surface of the globe ... the strata were probably a bit softer then

the question i have is this ... were these rocks formed ... compressed and consolidated ... at some depth ... what other rocks might have pressed down on them ?

skellingtons and cadavers in art ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQboPOM6wYA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgiNudCXinE

... to be continued ...