However, as the group found, these documents can have beautiful and vibrant marbling adorning them, they became interested in the history and process of marbling.
We will be sharing the second video next week👀
#exploreyourarchive #archives #archivesandart
A box divided into six sections, each depicting a miniature woodland scene with mushrooms, a birdhouse, flowers, and a small animal.
Art-filled room with a large window displaying colorful paper cutouts. Walls adorned with vibrant art pieces. A gray sofa sits below the window.
Colorful mermaid diorama in a decorated box featuring a water-themed background and crumpled paper resembling rocks.
Decorative memorial box on a windowsill, adorned with flowers, butterflies, and a blue rose. Text includes "DAD" and dates.
Come along and see some of the amazing artworks on display in our cafe.🎨
Created as part of a project with Dandelion Arts and inspired in part by our Knowles Collection. The amazing participants were even able to bring some new life to some our old archive boxes.
#archivesandart #archives #york
The front cover of the Chapbook.
Open pages of the book with a black and white woodprint on the left page of a man upside down with a tree and castle in the sky also upside down. On the right hand page there is a tailor armed with clothing scissors riding a goose.
Open page of the chapbook that depcits more world bending woodcuts, on the left there is a hog rowing a boat and on the right a monkey shaving a goat sat in a barbers chair.
An open page depicting more strange scenario woodcuts, this time with a goat dressed for war, riding a horse and on the right two cats standing on two legs and playing a game of 9 pins skittles
Our #archive30 for #SomethingSmall comes from our York Chapbook collection. This early 19th Century Penny Book entitled 'The World Turned Upside Down or No News and Strange News' contains some truly wonderful woodcuts.
#york #archives #archivesandart #woodcut #print
The image shows small painted carboard cutouts of woodland creature characters part of the theatre performance. It shows a 2 weasels armed with rifles, a mole digging with a spade, and a squirrel on a stump with a looking glass.
The image shows Badger and Rat from the Wind and the Willows. A painted carboard cutout on a gray background.
A painted carboad cutout depicting Mr Toad climbing in to his green car.
A framed painted image of the stage setting for the perfromance of Toad of Toad Hall, the white frame has been signed by members of the cast.
How about these wonderful woodland creatures from our Rowntree Player archive collection.
Created as a painting of the stage setting for Toad of Toad Hall, a performance that was staged between 23 March and 26 March 1960. (RPL/10)
#Archive30 #ArchiveAnimals #Animals #archivesandart
The image shows a charter that is written on parchment, that has a seal attached to it by some cord. The writing is in Latin and there is some colourful illumination and gilding of the letters and some of the border. The black seal only partially survives and is encased in a brown conservation wax. The cord is black and white and tied to the bottom of the charter and then entwined through the seal.
This is a close-up image of the beginning of the charter, which is an off-white colour. The first letter is larger than the rest of the text and is coloured with red, green and blue designs of an ivy like growing plant. There is also gilding on the letter and designs and the text of the document is handwritten in Latin.
This is a close-up image of the border of the charter, which is on an off-white colour. The border is coloured with red, green and blue designs of an ivy like growing plant. There is also gilding on the letter and designs and the text of the document is handwritten in Latin.
Today's theme is #ColourfulArchives for #Archive30.
We have an illuminated charter of Henry VI, dated 6 November 1459, incorporating the Guild of Corpus Christi in York. (Y/ADM/1/1/23)
#york #archivesandart #medieval #charter #archives #seal #15thcentury #manuscript
