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Irish summers, Harry Gruyaert

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Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards, marries Agilulf, duke of Turin (detail) - Zavattari

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Theodelinda, also spelled Theudelinde (c. 570 – 628 AD), was a queen of the Lombards through marriage to two successive Lombard kings, Authari and Agilulf. She later served as regent of the Kingdom of the Lombards during the minority of her son, Adaloald, and as co-regent after he came of age, from 616 to 626. For well over thirty years, she wielded considerable influence throughout the Lombard realm, which encompassed much of Italy between the Apennines and the Alps.

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Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, A dog and her puppies

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Separation (1896) by Edvard Munch

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Valerie Hammond (American, 1952) - Deer with Feathers (2024)

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Entrance to the Archangel Michael Monastery in Prilep.

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Grape Earrings at Yuhan Wang’s MA Central Saint Martins graduate collection

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Robe Lakota / Dakota (Sioux) artist c.1870

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Known as The Westbury Quilt, this stunning hand embroidered and appliqued red and white quilt was made by 6 women from the Hampson family between 1900-03 in Tasmania, Australia.

It is one of the more important colonial quilts in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, and was featured in their “A Century of Quilts” exhibition in Canberra.

Although technically more of a coverlet, as it is not quilted, this quilt has 52 stitched blocks – embroidered with proverbs and sayings, and intertwined with blocks depicting favourite farm animals, complete with pet names! It’s a joyful quilt, with its bright red fabric, and funny (laugh out loud at times) sayings, and a big happy embroidered floral border.

It is likely that this quilt was intended as a raffle prize at the time, due to the embroidery on the block above, but the quilt was exhibited by Mary Hampson at the Westbury Agricultural Show in 1904 and again at another in 1906.

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Chancel of a village church, Oxfordshire

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Dog