Dr Anna Clark
@drannaclark.bsky.social
Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
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Gorgeous out there today in crisp sunshine ☀️ Headed up the Montgomeryshire Canal to Llanymynech via Carreghofa Locks
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Gorgeous out there today in crisp sunshine ☀️ Headed up the Montgomeryshire Canal to Llanymynech via Carreghofa Locks
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Thanks to the wonderful staff in the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections, today my 2nd-year tutorial groups have been thinking about book history and reading practices from the Middle Ages to the 18thC, including this copy of Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (c.1592)
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Thanks to the wonderful staff in the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections, today my 2nd-year tutorial groups have been thinking about book history and reading practices from the Middle Ages to the 18thC, including this copy of Sidney’s ‘Astrophel and Stella’ (c.1592)
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In the exhibition of J-L David's work at Musée du Louvre (Oct2025-Jan2026), there is an extra dimension to the paintings in many of the frames...
David's frames: theframeblog.com/2024/04/17/j...
David's frames: theframeblog.com/2024/04/17/j...
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In the exhibition of J-L David's work at Musée du Louvre (Oct2025-Jan2026), there is an extra dimension to the paintings in many of the frames...
David's frames: theframeblog.com/2024/04/17/j...
David's frames: theframeblog.com/2024/04/17/j...
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Afternoon walk, Greenfield, Saddleworth.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Afternoon walk, Greenfield, Saddleworth.
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With frost on the ground this morning I'm rather wishing I was back in the high altitude Alpine pastures of the Dolomites - heaven!
📷 My own, Sesto, June 2025
📷 My own, Sesto, June 2025
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
With frost on the ground this morning I'm rather wishing I was back in the high altitude Alpine pastures of the Dolomites - heaven!
📷 My own, Sesto, June 2025
📷 My own, Sesto, June 2025
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La Pascaline's sale halted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Paris court blocks auction of earliest-known calculator
The court blocked La Pascaline, a 400-year-old calculating machine, from being exported from France.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
La Pascaline's sale halted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Looking at the Tavistock wills in our sample ahead of a talk I am giving there on Friday.
The second earliest is the 1546 will of John Peryn, clerk of Tavistock. He leaves some nice material culture: his second best and best featherbeds, silver spoons with decorated knapps & a gilt goblet.
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The second earliest is the 1546 will of John Peryn, clerk of Tavistock. He leaves some nice material culture: his second best and best featherbeds, silver spoons with decorated knapps & a gilt goblet.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looking at the Tavistock wills in our sample ahead of a talk I am giving there on Friday.
The second earliest is the 1546 will of John Peryn, clerk of Tavistock. He leaves some nice material culture: his second best and best featherbeds, silver spoons with decorated knapps & a gilt goblet.
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The second earliest is the 1546 will of John Peryn, clerk of Tavistock. He leaves some nice material culture: his second best and best featherbeds, silver spoons with decorated knapps & a gilt goblet.
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A day teaching in Carlo Scarpa’s Castelvecchio. Magic.
November 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
A day teaching in Carlo Scarpa’s Castelvecchio. Magic.
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Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
November 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman purple glass bottle, probably used for perfume.
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
📷 Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
#Archaeology
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The sun is rising
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.33v
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.33v
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The sun is rising
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.33v
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.33v
Self-portrait of the artist in his room at the Villa Medici Rome 1817, by Léon Cogniet, French Romantic history painter, winner of Prix de Rome in 1817, friend of Géricault & Delacroix; appointed Professeur de Peinture à l’École des Beaux Arts from 1851; died #OTD 1880.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Self-portrait of the artist in his room at the Villa Medici Rome 1817, by Léon Cogniet, French Romantic history painter, winner of Prix de Rome in 1817, friend of Géricault & Delacroix; appointed Professeur de Peinture à l’École des Beaux Arts from 1851; died #OTD 1880.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
The young bull, 1647, monumental painting by Paulus Potter, Dutch Golden Age artist specialising in animals, born #OTD 1625; known for his detailed portrayals of sturdy cattle against low horizons.
Mauritshuis, Den Haag
Mauritshuis, Den Haag
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The young bull, 1647, monumental painting by Paulus Potter, Dutch Golden Age artist specialising in animals, born #OTD 1625; known for his detailed portrayals of sturdy cattle against low horizons.
Mauritshuis, Den Haag
Mauritshuis, Den Haag
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One place, two creative visions. Clarendon Quad brought to life through pen and photo.
Photograph by spiralling_oxford (Instagram)
Illustration by t.e.sheperd.art (Instagram)
Photograph by spiralling_oxford (Instagram)
Illustration by t.e.sheperd.art (Instagram)
November 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One place, two creative visions. Clarendon Quad brought to life through pen and photo.
Photograph by spiralling_oxford (Instagram)
Illustration by t.e.sheperd.art (Instagram)
Photograph by spiralling_oxford (Instagram)
Illustration by t.e.sheperd.art (Instagram)
Et in Arcadia Ego, 1637-8, by Nicolas Poussin, French Baroque artist, died #OTD 1665. Shepherds examine a Latin inscription on a tomb in Arcadia (inspired by Virgil’s Eclogues) which is ambiguous: ‘I too (death) am in Arcadia’ or ‘I too (occupant of this tomb) was once in Arcadia’.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Et in Arcadia Ego, 1637-8, by Nicolas Poussin, French Baroque artist, died #OTD 1665. Shepherds examine a Latin inscription on a tomb in Arcadia (inspired by Virgil’s Eclogues) which is ambiguous: ‘I too (death) am in Arcadia’ or ‘I too (occupant of this tomb) was once in Arcadia’.
Musée du Louvre
Musée du Louvre
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The sun is setting
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.30v
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.30v
November 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The sun is setting
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.30v
BL Harley 3469; Splendor Solis; 1582 CE; Germany; f.30v
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Hôtel-Dieu #Beaune #France
Floor tiles with ‘n & g’ for Nicolas Rolin & his wife Guigone de Salins. The oak tree represents strength & loyalty.
The hospital had been funded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy & Guigone de Salins.
#TilesOnTuesday
Floor tiles with ‘n & g’ for Nicolas Rolin & his wife Guigone de Salins. The oak tree represents strength & loyalty.
The hospital had been funded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy & Guigone de Salins.
#TilesOnTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Hôtel-Dieu #Beaune #France
Floor tiles with ‘n & g’ for Nicolas Rolin & his wife Guigone de Salins. The oak tree represents strength & loyalty.
The hospital had been funded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy & Guigone de Salins.
#TilesOnTuesday
Floor tiles with ‘n & g’ for Nicolas Rolin & his wife Guigone de Salins. The oak tree represents strength & loyalty.
The hospital had been funded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy & Guigone de Salins.
#TilesOnTuesday
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This print is one of Hiroshige’s best-known works, depicting travellers caught in a summer rainstorm. 🌧️
By accentuating diagonals throughout the composition and intensifying with tonal variation of the black ink in the background, Hiroshige effectively captures the feeling of the driving rain.
By accentuating diagonals throughout the composition and intensifying with tonal variation of the black ink in the background, Hiroshige effectively captures the feeling of the driving rain.
November 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This print is one of Hiroshige’s best-known works, depicting travellers caught in a summer rainstorm. 🌧️
By accentuating diagonals throughout the composition and intensifying with tonal variation of the black ink in the background, Hiroshige effectively captures the feeling of the driving rain.
By accentuating diagonals throughout the composition and intensifying with tonal variation of the black ink in the background, Hiroshige effectively captures the feeling of the driving rain.
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Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Want to walk into and through an actual Iron Age house…and UP THE STAIRS?
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
Of course you bloody do.
Come with me.
Carn Liath broch, just sitting quietly beside the A9 as thousands whizz by without stopping. Their mistake.
Far too excited to wait for #HillfortsWednesday
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Loving the colours in the very pretty village of Bildeston, Suffolk 😍
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Loving the colours in the very pretty village of Bildeston, Suffolk 😍
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Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?
3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.
#Medieval #Manuscript
3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.
#Medieval #Manuscript
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Want to join the www.codicum.eu project?
3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.
#Medieval #Manuscript
3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.
#Medieval #Manuscript
The first council of Queen Victoria 1838, by Sir David Wilkie, Scottish artist born #OTD 1785; known for Scottish genre scenes loved by Sir Walter Scott, he was Principal Painter in Ordinary to William IV & Queen Victoria, and first to sketch her likeness as reigning monarch.
Royal Collections Trust
Royal Collections Trust
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The first council of Queen Victoria 1838, by Sir David Wilkie, Scottish artist born #OTD 1785; known for Scottish genre scenes loved by Sir Walter Scott, he was Principal Painter in Ordinary to William IV & Queen Victoria, and first to sketch her likeness as reigning monarch.
Royal Collections Trust
Royal Collections Trust
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My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
My special issue on gardens and plants as laboratories of premodern science is out on @royalsocietypublishing.org #notesandrecords #nrrs #histplants #histsci #vegscilif #envhist with articles by me, Luzzini on minerals, @johedesan.bsky.social on Guy de La Brosse, Jalobeanu on Bacon, and Benharrech🌱
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When I was reflecting on my career for my retirement conference I realised it was built on three things I was advised no respectable philosophy academic should do
1 Write texts for students
2 Write collaborative public policy reports
3 Co-author philosophical research
My advice. Do your thing.
1 Write texts for students
2 Write collaborative public policy reports
3 Co-author philosophical research
My advice. Do your thing.
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
When I was reflecting on my career for my retirement conference I realised it was built on three things I was advised no respectable philosophy academic should do
1 Write texts for students
2 Write collaborative public policy reports
3 Co-author philosophical research
My advice. Do your thing.
1 Write texts for students
2 Write collaborative public policy reports
3 Co-author philosophical research
My advice. Do your thing.