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Karl Adam Romstorfer (Austrian, 1854–1916)

Shepherdess from Măgura (Suceava, Bukovina, current-day Romania), photographed before 1903

Volkskundemuseum Wien

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Corpus Christi procession in Ragusa, Dalmatia (now Dubrovnik, Croatia), 1896 or earlier, from the collection of Ludwig Hans Fischer

Volkskundemuseum Wien

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Grey fritware tile painted in brown lustre, in the form of a six-pointed star, from near Kerman, 13th century. Found in the rubbish-heaps between the forts of Kalehi Dukhar and Kaleh-Ardashir.

V&A

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Two Women Teaching a Child to walk by Rembrandt.

Circa 1640, sketch

British Museum, London

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Beehive headboard with folk art painting depicting animals leading the funeral procession of a hunter, Carniola (present-day Slovenia), 19th century

Volkskundemuseum Wien

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Hand-painted Bierkrug depicting a man performing a balancing act with a hoop and 11 filled glasses, Gmunden, Austria, ca. 1740.

Volkskundemuseum Wien

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The Temptation of Eve, a bas-relief sculpture from the Cathedral of Saint Lazarus of Autun, France. c. 1130s.

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Fragment of red earthenware tile, stamped with a design consisting of the lower portion of a standing figure in a long robe, and inlaid with white clay.

From Halesowen Abbey, Shropshire. English, late 13th century.

V&A

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Fritware tile with peony motif and Naskh inscription, Iran, probably Kashan, 1300-1325

V&A

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The writer Frederick Rolfe, a.k.a. Baron Corvo, ca. 1889, around the time he joined the Pontifical Scots College. He was expelled from the seminary four months after his arrival, having to be forcibly removed by a group of servants, "mattress, blanket and all", when he refused to leave.

Miriam J. Benkovitz, Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo. A Biography (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977)

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Sketchbook diary: Cluj, Reșița, Lugoj, Bucharest, Timișoara...

31 May - 19 June 2025

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This morning in the municipal museum in Lugoj

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Good afternoon from Sibiu-Hermannstadt where, between installing an exhibition and doing a tiny bit of work, I have been sheep-watching and antique-hunting

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Undated and uncaptioned photograph of a group of civilians and army officers (probably of the same family) somewhere in Romania, after 1920/before 1935. The photograph is printed in a postcard format but uncirculated.

Personal collection.

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"Pfingstritt in Kötzting"

Uncirculated postcard, printed by Verlag William Oexler, Bad Kötzting, Cham, Bavaria.

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Small cabinet card photograph of a young woman wearing a sash and medallion, posing with a small book and a woven basket, ca. 1890-1900.

The photograph is not dated and the back is mostly missing/torn, except for the name of "Fläschner Fotograf" studio, which was located in Iași, Romania.

Personal collection.

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From last Wednesday, climbed up the bell tower of St. Michael's Church in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca — the church itself was completed ca. 1447, although this tower was only finished in 1862.

It's the tallest church tower in Transylvania, 80m high if you include the cross — probably a fine place to have your cassock billowing around in the wind 76m up, but being that the outside walkway was mostly open and barely accommodated my body width, it was a little too high up for me :)

28 May 2025