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Playing This Weekend (Page 3)

A spring day in the life of insects: various species of bees are foraging on catkins among budding branches, from Brehms Tierleben, vol. 9, artist unknown

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April 22, 2023 Alice Bell

Mummers mumming in an illustration from 'The National and Domestic History of England'.

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April 15, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A hare scampers away in an illustration from 'Woodland Romances; or, Fables and Fancies'.

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April 7, 2023 Alice O'Connor

An old illustration of several seamen on a lifeboat next to a larger ship.

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April 1, 2023 Ollie Toms

A crop of one of Gustave Doré's wood engraving for Book 1 of Milton's Paradise lost, showing Lucifer's fall: HIm the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky

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March 25, 2023 Alice Bell

A section of the colour illustration She Whipped Up The Snakes, by Virginia Sterrett Frances, for the book Tanglewood Tales. It shows a dragon-creature with long fangs and purple scales, but no arms, flying in a blue sky

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March 18, 2023 Alice Bell

A very questionable illustration of a tiger from 'To the Snows of Tibet through China'.

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March 11, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A ballerina stabs a man before assembled shocked royals in an illustration from 'Rose Mortimer; or, the Ballet-Girl's revenge'.

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March 4, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A scarab beetle writing hieroglyphics with a quill in an illustration from 'When Life is Young: a collection of verse for boys and girls'.

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Feb. 25, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A wizard running through a crowd in an illustration from 'Beeton's Christmas annual, thirteenth season'.

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Feb. 18, 2023 Alice O'Connor

Bigs dancing and lplaying a musical instrument in an illustration from '"The Tourist's Companion; being a description and history of Ripon, Studley Park, Fountains Abbey, Hackfall, Brimhall Craggs, ... Newby Hall, Knaresborough, ... Harrogate and Harewood House ... With woodcuts'.

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Feb. 11, 2023 Alice O'Connor

An illustration of snowdrops from 'The Juvenile Verse and Picture Book'.

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Feb. 4, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A crowd of men stand toasting another man in an illustration from 'The Works of G. J. Whyte-Melville.'

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Jan. 28, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A watercolour illustration by Beatrix Potter, for The Tale Of Squirrel Nutkin, depicting three red squirrels looking at a heap of hazelnuts they've collected

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Jan. 21, 2023 Alice Bell

A scruffy dog stands by a broom in an illustration from 'The Moor and the Loch'.

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Jan. 14, 2023 Alice O'Connor

Three men ice-skating, one fallen on his back, in an illustration from 'Eccentric excursions; or, literary and pictorial sketches of countenance, character and country in different parts of England and South Wales'.

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Jan. 7, 2023 Alice O'Connor

A family sitting round the dinner table excitedly await the delivery of the flaming Christmas pudding in an illustration from 'A Christmas Carol'.

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Dec. 24, 2022 Alice O'Connor

Children surround a woman carrying a giant steaming plum pudding in an illustration from 'Recollections of Old Christmas: a masque. Performed at Grimston'.

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Dec. 17, 2022 Alice O'Connor

Father Christmas sits telling tales to a horde of children in an illustration from 'The Coming of Father Christmas'.

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Dec. 10, 2022 Alice O'Connor

Children riding atop the yule log as it's carried in, in an illustration from 'A Christmas Garland. Carols and poems form the fifteenth century to the present time.'

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Dec. 3, 2022 Alice O'Connor

A bustling meat market in an illustration from 'Cassell's Illustrated History of the War between France and Germany, 1870-1871'.

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Nov. 26, 2022 Alice O'Connor

A big pig in an illustration from 'Observations on Mr. Archer's statistical survey of the County of Dublin'.

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Nov. 19, 2022 Alice O'Connor

People shouting in an illustration from 'Le Chemin des Écoliers; Promenade de Paris à Marly-le-Roy, en suivant les bords du Rhin.'

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Nov. 12, 2022 Alice O'Connor

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Nov. 5, 2022 Alice O'Connor

Ichabod Crane haunted by a phantom in an illustration from 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'.

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Oct. 29, 2022 Alice O'Connor