Drawing by John Tenniel of a lobster standing on its tail at a vanity table. It holds a hairbrush in its right claw. From Alice in Wonderland.
Did somebody say #NationalLobsterDay?
I must sugar my hair.
Happy #NationalLobsterDay
Fun Factlets;
🦞 live ≈40-50 years, & some can reach >100yrs.
🦞 are omnivores & often eat their own skin after they moult.
The word "🦞" comes from the Old English word "loppestre," which is a mix of the Latin "locusta" (meaning locust) & "loppe," an Old English word for 🕷️.
official museum photo, cooper brooch in the form of a lobster, top down profile on off-white background “In 1922, Francisco Torres arrived in New York on a steam ship from his hometown of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, at the age of sixteen. Despite being an unaccompanied minor, he convinced immigration authorities to allow him to enter the United States by speaking the fluent English he learned from a native Virgin Islander living in Puerto Plata and revealing the $300 he had in his pocket. With his sights set on building his fortunes, Francisco Torres gradually transformed himself into Frank Rebajes. He adopted his mother’s last name of Rebajes, which he believed had a more interesting air, and in New York, he soon became known as “Frank” among his inner circle of artists, writers, and intellectuals. While living in a friend’s basement, Rebajes began transforming cans and scrap metal into animal shaped sculptures using the everyday tools his friend had lying around. In 1932, he displayed these works on an ironing board at the Washington Square Park Outdoor Festival and caught the eye of Juliana Force, the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who purchased the entire collection for $30. Rebajes used the money to open his first shop in Greenwich Village—a four-foot wide space between two buildings with an improvised roof and a dirt floor. There he began developing what would become his emblematic line of copper jewelry, which was an accessibly priced collection inspired by cultural references, Modern art, and the natural world, as seen in this whimsical brooch in the shape of a lobster. Rebajes believed the greater public deserved to have well-designed and affordable objects, which is why everything he made sold for less than $10. His jewelry quickly gained popularity and in the late 1930s, his work was included in exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the 1939 New York World’s Fair.” via Cooper Hewitt FB
For #NationalLobsterDay 🦞:
Francisco Rebajes (USA, b. Dominican Republic, 1907-1990)
Brooch ( #Lobster )
Copper; H x W x D: 10.6 x 7.3 x 2.1 cm (4 3/16 x 2 7/8 x 13/16 in.); Cooper Hewitt 1990-108-7
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It's #NationalLobsterDay 🦞
(Achelata = no claws lobster)
official museum photo, side view on grey background “Because so many aspects of Greek life depended on the sea, a vase in the shape of a lobster claw is not surprising. It is, however, exceptional and may be a variant of the askos—a bag-shaped oil container provided with a vertical mouth and strap handle. The Dionysiac iconography of the lobster claw suggests that it was a novelty item used at symposia (drinking parties).”
official museum photo, top down view on grey background “Because so many aspects of Greek life depended on the sea, a vase in the shape of a lobster claw is not surprising. It is, however, exceptional and may be a variant of the askos—a bag-shaped oil container provided with a vertical mouth and strap handle. The Dionysiac iconography of the lobster claw suggests that it was a novelty item used at symposia (drinking parties).”
For #NationalLobsterDay: 🦞
Terracotta vase in the form of a #lobster claw
#AncientGreek, Attic, c. 460 BCE
Terracotta; red-figure
Metropolitan Museum of Art 23.160.57: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/251401
Plate 2, color lithograph, Art nouveau style, swimming brown/blue lobsters
Plate 9, color lithograph, Art nouveau style, swimming red/pink lobsters
For #NationalLobsterDay 🦞:
Anton Seder (German, 1850-1916)
#ArtNouveau #lobsters, Plates 2 & 9 from _Das Thier in der Decorativen Kunst_ (1896)
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Resharing for #NationalLobsterDay 🦞
Resharing for #NationalLobsterDay 🦞
Resharing for #NationalLobsterDay 🦞
Resharing for #NationalLobsterDay 🦞
"It turns out that no one knows how long a lobster can live, and no one knows how big they can grow!" - NATE DIMEO, Lost Lobsters, the memory palace #memorypalace #NationalLobsterDay #NateDimeo
#NationalLobsterDay! 🦞 Butter-drenched boil or fancy roll? What's your ultimate lobster indulgence? Spill recipes below! 🧈 #LobsterLovers
"And sure enough, he came back and he caught lobster." - KELSEY MCKINNEY, New England Stolen Valor with Tobin Low, Normal Gossip #NormalGossip #NationalLobsterDay #KelseyMckinney
🦞 #NationalLobsterDay
Why are lobsters boiled alive? Lobsters & other shellfish have harmful Vibrio bacteria naturally present in their flesh. Once lobsters die, this bacteria can rapidly multiply & release toxins that may not be destroyed by cooking.
Leave lobsters in the sea where they belong.
Lobsters don’t age the way we do. Thanks to an enzyme called telomerase, their cells keep dividing without breaking down, meaning they could, in theory, live forever. That is… until a tough molt takes them out.
Would you want to live forever like a lobster? 🦞
#Lobster #NationalLobsterDay #Science
"How many lobsters will he bring up if, it's been good down there?" - PHOEBE JUDGE, In the Mouth of the Whale, This Is Love #ThisIsLove #NationalLobsterDay #PhoebeJudge
Today is National Lobster Day! Make sure to stop by the Market on your way home for fresh Maine Lobster and support our local fisherman. #NationalLobsterDay #seafoodmarket #mainelobster #foodsky
Today we shell-ebrate Homarus americanus - the American lobster! 🦞
Lobster is woven into the identity of the #GulfOfMaine. #SeaGrant's American Lobster Initiative is advancing science to keep this species resilient into the future.
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#NationalLobsterDay #MarineLife
🦞💙 Happy #NationalLobsterDay!
Meet the star of the Ann Gall Durbin Aquarium on the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus: a rare blue lobster, found in the wild in about one in two million! 🦑 🌊
From left to right: A lobster roll, a picked spear and, coleslaw in a blue porcelain cup. All 3 are in a red plastic basket on top of wax paper.
$20 lobster roll for #NationalLobsterDay #goodlunch
A still life painting of food on a table partially draped with a white cloth. The artwork depicts, among other items, a large pale blue tureen with gold colored metal trim, a dead bird, grapes, bread, peaches, a wicker basket, a caddy for wine bottles, and lilies. In just about the center front are a ham with a knife handle sticking out from it, and a lobster with its left claw hanging over the edge of the white tablecloth.
Still Life with Lobster, 1817, by #AnneVallayerCoster (French, 1744-1818). Held by the Louvre, collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335... #NationalLobsterDay #womenartists #artherstory
"They had lobster!" - AMY MCCARTHY, What Killed Red Lobster? - Chain Reaction, Business Wars #BusinessWars #NationalLobsterDay #AmyMccarthy
It's National Lobster Day! #nationallobsterday #lobsterroll #lobster
They are on a roll!
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Happy National Lobster Day 🦞
#NationalLobsterDay
Vintage Royal Hickman Lobster Chip and Dip Serving Tray - Cast by ZendingMachineShop
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Happy National Lobster Day!!! The only day we all pretend claw crackers are ‘fine dining tools’...
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