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Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
One of Goya's Disasters of War, showing a group of people about to be shot by soldiers, only the tips of their bayonnets showing
Teaching Goya today, and No se puede mirar (One can't look)
Open notebook with bibliographic entries and a drawing of the head of Medusa from a pendant or amulet in the Hamilton collection
A page from a notebook with three sketches of masks with lolling tongues and bibliographic references
This is wonderful, when did it enter the collection? Francis Douce listed some images of the head of Medusa in one of his notebooks on "Eleusinian masks" (Ms. Douce e.50), with his sketches and notes (he was interested in the lolling tongue as a recurrent motif)
Rough sea and rugged coastline in the early afternoon sun
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed
A storks stands on its nest on a stone wall, with landscape in the background
Stork standing on nest on top of medieval tower
So many storks
Phantasmagoric figure showing a scary demonic bearded face with bat ears and open mouth
Teaching about phantasmagoria this week, so I dug up this 1817 print of a phantasmagoric chimera from my Douce files. Tabs can be pulled to create "extravagant changes of countenance truly diverting"
Sculpture of a lady in 15thC costume holding an open book in her tomb
Face emerging from vegetal decoration in drop tracery carved in stone
15thC tombs in the Capilla del Contador Saldaña, with lovely details in alabaster carving, but also this funny face suspended from the drop tracery
Colourful wall paintings, with different types of birds surrounded by leaves and flowers
Dove painted on wall
More birds indoors
A storck refurbishing its nest in the bell tower of a monastery
The storks are back: this one is refurbishing last year's nest and throwing away some old sticks that aren't right for the new one
An update, two years later: "my neighbour University seems to thrive, but new brooms &c &c. It does me neither harm nor good". Douce did blame the University for bringing to Gower Street so many "rude & noisy boys that stun you with their screams & whistling, the worst of all noises"
In 1826, Francis Douce wrote to George Cumberland about the building work undertaken by "the projectors of the London University" in his neighbourhood, adding "I prognosticate that they will not effect their purpose & this will hereafter turn out another bubble & be called Brougham's folly" #UCL200
Child looking at a patch of grass full of daisies, with trees, houses and cathedral in the background
Spring has arrived when you can put your foot upon twelve daisies (from R. L. Tongue's “Folk-Song and Folklore”, 1967)
Douce described the scenes decorating this casket in his notebook on 'Subjects from Romances &c in ancient ivory carvings' (Ms. Douce e. 46, fol. 9) under the heading 'QUEEN with a lapdog' (with a reference to Walter Scott's Sir Tristrem)
Salamanca in the snow
Roofs and spires covered in snow
Nieve
Leo this is a properly Doucean coincidence
Man with his head inside an alembic from which insects, a rabbit, a fool's cap and a little figure of a fool are coming out, with two men watching them and fanning the flames and some verses in German below
This engraved version shows what comes out of the alembic -mainly bees, moths and dragonflies, but also a bouncy rabbit, a fool's cap, a winged goblet and a little fool
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Virgin and Child within ornamental border with hunting rabbits chasing a man and tritons
When you are trying to read, but some evil-looking rabbits are chasing a hunter out of a bush
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A couple in 16thC dress set off for a festival, with two bag-pipers playing under a tree next to a table with drinks at right
Almost time for the barefoot piper
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People skating on ice
Happy holiday
Winter represented as a bearded elderly man warming his hands by a brazier, within ornamental oval frame
It's cold, but look, snails and dragonflies
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Winter scene with street sellers, people skating on a frozen river near a bridge and a Twelfth Night parade
Not a paper crown print, but a night scene from Douce's collection at the Ashmolean (WA2003.Douce.316), in which the paper crown seller is standing just next to the parade of singers carrying a candle-lit star on Twelfth Night
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On the subject of shrimps, Douce also had this woodcut of the Madonna di Gambarone: just look at the giant shrimps climbing up the Virgin's mantle...
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you are stuck in the box (no. 38) until another player takes your place, I think. Whoever gets to no. 49 first wins
The rules are similar to those of the Game of the Goose: you throw the dice, return to your last position every time you reach a shrimp, you lose one point every time your reach a crab (I guess this means you go back one slot), you must pay a fine when you fall in the basket and
Game board with fishermen catching shrimps and crabs in the middle
I love these! Francis Douce had an 18thC impression of the Game of the Goose, but perhaps my favourite is his 17thC Game of the Shrimps (Gioco del Gambaro) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
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Thank you Peter!
Portrait of Francis Douce, half-length, in profile to left, wearing jacket and cravat
My book on the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834) was published yesterday. It has been a long time in the making, but I've loved every minute working on such incredible material.
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Ayudaría más formación en cultura visual. Y en las Humanidades en general
Yes, I think it's worth checking. Not sure the catalogue records are back online, but I seem to remember most images (and some basic info) were available on flickr. Good luck!
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