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NB! · Observations · Nature · Humour
So many people against one wretched snake: hardly sporting
NB! · Aristocracy · Art · Humour
Jean-Marc Nattier's Portrait of the Duke of Chaulnes as Hercules
The half-naked woman in rags, armed with a club, is in fact the Duchesse de Chaulnes as Hercules. It must be said that Jean-Marc Nattier, a painter well known among the aristocracy, made a better job of his portraits of Peter I and Catherine I
NB! · Archive · Observations · Humour
Found my hairstyle of the day on a nameless queen in a fourteenth-century manuscript, while a dim-witted gatekeeper leans out of his window, ready to pass comment on our hairdresser
NB! · Archive · Observations · Mores · Humour
The Perils of Fashion, a Nineteenth-Century Depiction
The perils of fashion, a nineteenth-century depiction. Pity there is no such picture for brains
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Humour
Three terracotta phallic amulets found during excavations at Omrit in northern Israel
Three terracotta penis amulets have been found at excavations in Omrit in northern Israel. A fairly ordinary find for ancient Rome, with its obsession with phallic imagery, which dominated public life
NB! · Archive · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Do Read Item 17 of a Circus Programme from 1885
Do read item 17 of a circus programme from 1885. A HORSE named Blondin WALKS A TIGHTROPE AT A HEIGHT OF 6 METRES. The horses I know can only booze and retouch their photos for Instagram 🙄
NB! · Archaeology · Humour
A stone lady from a fifteenth-century Cistercian monastery in Irish Newry knows that the weekend is very nearly upon us 🌚
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Humour
A few kilometres from Southwold Jack stands another similar "clockmaker" or bell-ringer, at Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
A few kilometres from Southwold Jack stands another similar "clockmaker" or bell-ringer, at Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh. Fine armour, one must say.
NB! · Faith · Art · Observations · Humour
Terracotta Madonna in sandals by the French sculptor Gervais Delabarre
Terracotta Madonna in sandals, the work of the French sculptor of the 16th-17th century Gervais Delabarre. The toes are admittedly odd; I recommend replacing the sandals with loafers or espadrilles
NB! · Archive · Observations · Humour
Sitting in my cell, awaiting congratulations on Archives Day
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Humour
A small find beside a large pharaonic block unearthed nearby
Still, a mite like this is hardly likely to cause a sensation when a whole pharaonic slab is being hauled out of the ground next door. What is one to do?