An elegantly dressed young man with long hair is taken compassionately by the shoulder by an ancient skeletal man representing Death. A toad it at his feet.
"Right, young man, you come along with me."
"But luvvie, I can't go anywhere in these ridiculous shoes."
- Death claims a young man in this drawing by 'The Master of the Housebook', 1490.
#Gothic #medieval #medievalart #artsky
“Yesterday
In Castle street
I saw two goblins at my feet
I saw a horse without a head
Carrying the dead
To the graveyard
Near Turner’s Cross.
I am the madwoman of Cork
No one talks to me“
Patrick Galvin.
Atmospheric black and white photo, depicting gravestones in the foreground and the misty outline of a church with a bell tower behind.
Glasserton Church in the mist.
#blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland
A black-and-white, square-format photograph shows a small child standing alone on a dark paved path in a foggy outdoor landscape. The child is centered in the frame and faces the camera with a solemn, almost haunting expression. They have dark curly hair adorned with a floral crown or cluster of light-colored flowers, and they wear a long light dress under an oversized, shaggy white coat that hangs heavily around their shoulders. In both hands, they hold a shiny basket or pail at waist level, suggesting a costume or ceremonial outfit. The setting is dim and mist-covered, with an open grassy field stretching behind the child and tall evergreen trees fading into dense fog in the background. The mist softens the outlines of the trees and makes the distance look blurred and empty. The foreground pavement appears wet or very dark, adding to the cold, eerie atmosphere. The image has a quiet, gothic, cinematic mood, with strong contrast between the child’s pale clothing and the shadowy ground and fog-darkened landscape.
Diane Arbus • A Flower Girl at a Wedding, Connecticut, ‘64
The Flipside of Dominic Hyde is being shown by @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight. Here I am with the timeship at the Dr Who Longleat celebration in 1983.
An engraving depicting six children holding hands and dancing around a maypole.
I'm doing an online talk with Creswell Crags on 27 April, examining the folklore of May Day! It's at 6 pm BST. [Image by Isaiah Thomas, Public Domain]
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maypoles-h...
The roots of a mature Silver Birch, blown over in one of this year's storms. Birches grow faster than most woodland trees and seem more vulnerable than their oak and beech neighbours once they've grown to a substantial height and width.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #trees
A Gustave Dore drawing of Pan or a satyr running cheerfully away through some bushes with a struggling woman in his grip.
Uh-oh. Shouldn't have strayed so near that mysterious shrine in the woods.
#Pan #mythology #GustaveDore #illustration #artsky
Well, thanks for clarifying that.
'The Dunwich Horror' as imagined by Tatsuya Morino.
#weird #weirdart #BookIllustration #illustration #BookChatWeekly #artsky #Lovecraft #HPLovecraft #horror
Goodnight
But surely relationships between adult men were considered shameful in Roman society? I thought there was clear evidence that Antinous died at the age of 20 and, of course, it was after his death that Hadrian ordered his likenesses to be made, so he would have been an adult then.
Miniature wooden casket--the lid has a viewing portal that can be removed.
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead
Salesman's sample casket with lining and pillow. The lid has a viewing portal with removable panel. About 8 inches long.
Cowan Auctions
Two dandified young men in Regency fashions have mounted their velocipedes.
The same young men on their velocipedes are panicking because a pair of geese are squawking at them.
One of the young men has fallen into a faint thanks to his terrifying experience with the geese and is being carried on the back of a yokel into a house. Is friend looks on in distress.
The distressed dandy is sitting in his mother's lap being scolded.
I love these 'Dandy's Perambulations' cartoons from 1819. No idea who drew them but they make me chortle.
#dandies #Regency #cartoons #artsky #BookChatWeekly
SPOOKY NETSUKE (根付) White #bats resemble ghosts in exquisite miniature sculptures popular during the Edo period in Japan. Reflecting important aspects of Japanese folklore bats are often associated with good fortune #BatAppreciationDay #Baturday
HISTOIRE DES VAMPIRES rare illustrated French treatise on #vampires and evil spectres from 1820
Creature holding fainted woman in arm
"places of note" #bookwormsat - certainly not a safe place to go swimming alone
Creature from the Black Lagoon by Vargo Statten. 1954, cover by John Richards. #booksky
By demonic agency? Or outraged critics?
Sorry, I should have realised. And yes, I can see the car keys in the bowl scenario (for some reason I can imagine Denis Wheatley at the same party). I've just reposted your photo of the memorial to Kit Marlowe, a minor hero of mine.
A closer view of the objects. Both photos were taken by me back in 1998 and scanned from the prints. A place I'd forgotten all about until I unearthed them - worth a revisit.
The Raven's Bowl beside an ancient track in the hills above Llangollen, North Wales. Probably the base of a medieval wayside cross but it's unknown what happened to the cross itself. The hollow socket forms the 'bowl' of its romantic name.
#StandingStoneSunday #medieval #antquities #Wales
The plaque for Christopher Marlowe showing recent relics left by modern hands, a tilted candle, a scull, a chiromantic hand
'Above our life we love a steadfast friend'
Hero and Leander
At the grave of Kit Marlowe near to his murder point in Deptford
Fragments of masonry tucked away in a corner in St Mary And All Saints Church, Great Budworth, #Cheshire.
#medieval #medievalsky #churches
I had no idea Mr Underwood was gay. What 'industry', by the way? Authoring? Ghost-hunting? I'm intrigued!
Wonderful, but personally I would consider either a bomb going off a meteorite landing in my local wood cause for amazement. Just shows how insouciant Foreteans can become.
Such a gift to innuendo that anyone with any self-respect pretends otherwise.
How lovely.
Peter Underwood's books were a starting point so in that sense invaluable but increasingly I got the feeling he was a bit of a chancer (and cannibal too it seems). Green and Alexander supplanted him. I did correspond with Underwood briefly: his letter was on Savage Club stationery. Pretentious, moi?
