#ralph robinson

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Just your average farmer. Nothing to see here~ 👨‍🌾

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He would've loved tumblr.

@bird-mayhaps @rococoejik @hoffrev

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Gang of four

by Ralph Robinson

Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards

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These people have the audacity 😤😤😄

King George better check with his pr team. Cuz people are spreading rumors!

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Cute little thing (hell yea)

Crazy (maybe)

Loves gardening (correct!)

Has a fully armed battalion (shhh.....it's for defense purposes.)

Will poison your tea ( if you're a traitor/enemy. Duh!)

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Awesome waw! Hotdogs and stuff~ only in Ohio 💅. Fireworks for treason day, yay!

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Fun fact, irl king George used the pseudonym Ralph Robinson to publish articles on gardening and agriculture. (That name is so random, I know 😭)

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Ralph Robinson, “Gang of Four”

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)

© Ralph Robinson | Nikon Comedy Wildlife

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wholesome content.

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In Memoriam Sir Thomas More

On this date July 6 in 1535, English lawyer, author, philosopher, statesman and Lord High Chancellor of England Sir Thomas More was executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. Best known for his most controversial work, Utopia, about the political system of an imaginary island state, More was Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. A staunch Catholic, More came into conflict with the King over More’s campaign against the Protestant Reformation and the King’s (and the nation’s) separation from the Catholic Church, eventually leading to More’s resignation from the Chancellorship in 1532. Further conflicts with the King led to More’s imprisonment, charges of high treason, and his eventual execution by decapitation. For his staunch commitment to and defense of his Catholic faith resulting in his death, More was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935 as a martyr, and in 2000 Pope John Paul II declared him the patron saint of statesmen and politicians.   

Shown here are pages from two publications. The first is a 1726 edition of The Life of Sir Thomas More by More’s great grandson Cresacre More (1572-1649), published in London by James Woodman and David Lyon. The original edition was published in 1631 without a place or date, but was probably printed in Louvain in what is now Belgium. The frontispiece is from a famous painted portrait of Thomas More by Hans Holbein, here etched in copper by George Vertue. 

The second is a two-volume, 1808 edition of More’s Utopia with the original 16th-century English translation by Ralph (or Raphe) Robinson and additional material for this edition by Thomas Frognall Dibdin, printed by William Bulmer for William Miller. Utopia was first printed in Latin in Louvain under the editorship of Erasmus in 1516. After revisions by More it was then printed again in Basel in 1518. It was not until 1551, sixteen years after More's execution, that it was first published in England by Abraham Veale (or Vele) with Robinson’s English translation. The edition shown here uses Veale's second English edition of 1556. We don’t know who did the lithographic frontispiece portrait of Thomas More, but the handsome wood engravings in this publication are signed “Austin” and are most likely by the painter and wood engraver Richard Turner Austin (1781-1842) whose father Richard Austin (1756–1832) was William Miller’s punchcutter.

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When I found out about this, maybe a few months ago, I was like what??🤣

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Edward Onslow Ford in his Studio (1892). Ralph Robinson. © National Portrait Gallery, London.

Ford is juxtaposed with The Singer (top-left) and with the model (middle-right) for Ford’s c.1887–9 Khartoum and Chatham monuments to the British army officer and imperial administrator, General Charles George Gordon.