[prominentmen]

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS, 1978.

© LYNN GOLDSMITH

[jewellery-box]

Mechanical Mouse

The Bowes Museum

This mechanical mouse is the same size and scale as a real mouse. When wound up, it runs around, stops and continues its journey in a way very similar to that of a real mouse.  It is essentially a 'fun' item designed to amuse, with materials and techniques very similar to those of jewellery. It was probably made by the Swiss maker Henri Maillardet, an associate of the more famous maker Jacquet Droz of Geneva. He is known to have exhibited  in London in 1810-20 with Paul de Philipsthal in the 'Philipsthal and Malliardet Automatical Theatre', which featured  a 'Siberian Mouse', an 'Egyptian' Lizard', and an 'Ethiopian Caterpillar'. Exhibitions of their work also took place in New York in 1828 and 1836. 

Joséphine Bowes' father was a clock or watchmaker, and this might account for the particular number of clocks, watches and other mechanical items in the collection. It was bought  by Joséphine Bowes in London in 12th May 1871 for £22, shortly before John Bowes' birthday. John  used to call her 'Puss', and one can imagine his 'puss' presenting him with a gold mouse on his 60th birthday!

[malvoliowithin]

"problem plays" this "romances" that I'm proposing new and exciting Shakespearean Play Groupings for your amusement!

The Bad Dad Triad: King Lear, Henry IV Part 1, Romeo and Juliet

The "My Wife's A Floozy" Trifecta: Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, the Winter's Tale

The "Me And My Shitty Little Minion Are About To Fuck Up Your Shit Hardcore" Trilogy: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, the Tempest

The Falstaffiad: Henry IV part 1, Henry IV part 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor

The "Holy Fuck There's Two of 'Em" Saga: Twelfth Night, the Comedy of Errors

The "Dear Diary My Homoerotic Bullshit Has A Body Count Now" Series: Richard II, Julius Caesar, Coriolanus

The "Why Are The Fucking Trees Trying To Kill Me. Hate This Shit" Trilogy: Macbeth, the Winter's Tale, As You Like It

[gargoylemeat]

Leon Bakst, costume design for Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty, 1921

[mandywondering]

Did you hear about the kind-hearted medieval warrior who was also gay and liked it rough?

Do not go gently into that good knight

[violaobanion]

PERIOD DRAMA + SLUTTY SHIRTS

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright Bridgerton (2020-) created by Chris Van Dusen War & Peace (2016) dir. Tom Harper Poldark (2015-2019) created by Debbie Horsfield Atonement (2007) dir. Joe Wright Jane Eyre (2011) dir .Cary Joji Fukunaga Peaky Blinders (2013-2022) created by Steven Knight Pride & Prejudice (1995) dir. Simon Langton

[triskeleaficionado]

[instructor144]

ffs ....

[krisatherandom]

Additions from my husband: Bakers wear loafers and Zookeepers wear Crocs

[haveuseenmyhalo]

Excellent additions.

[asirbyanyothername]

Angels wear wingtips.

[triskeleaficionado]

A lumberjack wears Timberlands.

[researcherinblue]

Ice skaters wear slippers

[dorkery]

[chaoticwixtheybe]

Addition from my mom: delivery drivers wear vans

[selfdestructivecat]

VERY good addition!

[perfectly-princely-emo-nightmare]

Achilles wears heels.

[magicratfingers]

Ep 1 doodles!

[magicratfingers]

mail is so cute ~ you mean if I put a sticker on this piece of paper you'll take it to my friend?? (●´□`)♡

[gjdofkvkvkkc]

Jane Asher in Deep End (1970)

[slowedmountains]

guardian of the sewing kit

[slowedmountains]

she wishes to refute some slanderous accusations

[magicratfingers]

Junior year hype

[artistprovocateur]

British painter John Maler Collier (1850 — 1934)

"The Devil skating when Hell freezes over" (1894)

[cryptotheism]

My stupid court eunuchs won't even scheme with me. All they do is smoke and make shitty EDM in their tower.

[akiweas-deactivated20240216]

but...milord....you said my loops were sick :(

[cryptotheism]

My treacherous sisters are literally plotting my demise and all you can think about is the beat.

[thunderstruck9]

Cressida Campbell (Australian, 1960), Nasturtiums, 2002. Colour woodblock, 58.4 x 60 cm.

[littlebluerivers]

there is no force of nature that says “come here” like the ocean

[valtsv]

another volunteer at the cat shelter was telling me that the trick to socializing feral kittens is not to look at them because "if you don't show them your eyes they don't feel threatened" and i couldn't help but think of angels interacting with humans in the same way

[valtsv]

angel, holding a squirming human in one bleeding, ichor soaked hand: your divine creation fucking bit me