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Richard napping

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They should invent an essay where you just do research forever and then you never write anything

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Mato Celestin Medović (Croatian, 1857-1920) Bacchanal, 1893 National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb

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Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852-1909, British) ~ A Knock at the Door, 1897

[Source: collections.currier.org]

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Interior from Partille manor - Roj Friberg , 1999.

Swedish , 1934-2016

Mixed media on panel, 124 x 162 cm. 

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The Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse, 1938

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Josep Maria Tamburini (detail)

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Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, acrylic on illustration board, 9”x12”. Selling for $225, purchase here

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Alois Tott

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A mould-blown Roman glass flask with two janiform portraits of women, perhaps Roman empresses. The distinctive hairstyles suggest a 3rd century date. From Salona, Split Archaeological Museum #ancient #glass

Credit: Gareth Harney https://www.instagram.com/p/B6sVmdXFENi/?igshid=1cyowzohmwqcx

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A scrap with random writing by Marie Thérèse Charlotte, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, while she was imprisoned in the Temple tower. The archive listing says circa 1792-1795; my guess would be after 1794, when she was given freer access to writing material again.

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Jamie Shelman

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ab. 1775-1785 Man's three-piece suit: coat, breeches and waistcoat (artist/maker unknown, American)

silk faille, cotton/linen plain weave, silk twill

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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“Do you really believe in the perfect murder?“

Dial M for Murder (1954) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Angela Barrett’s illustrations for Bram Stoker’s Dracula.