Arriving early, I used the till receipt for a bracing cup of coffee for a warm-up ... loose marks combining to resemble (somewhat) the vase of gladioli and lilies -
Photos from here and there, some taken in retrospect -
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nice place for a little afternoon snooze! |
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Florence Nightingale's moccasins, worn at Scutari 1850-56 |
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amazing bottles |
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Statues of deceased twins (Yoruba people, Nigeria) (via) |
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wooden statue showing childbirth, Angola, 19th century (via) |
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Janet's rendition of the childbirth figure |
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Sue's rendition of the deceased twins |
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Jo's massaging apparatus |
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Carol's collection includes the giant jellybaby |
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Joyce's shoes (or rather, Florence N's) |
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Michelle's contrasting sculptural figures |
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Michelle brought along some books she's been making out of here prints and other sources |
Returning to the Reading Room after lunch, I'd hoped to see again the book that had fascinated me previously - a facsimile of
Mascagni's plates of the lymph system. It had disappeared, but another fascinating facsimile book was available -
How is it that you revisit places and still don't notice so many things? This time, the ink-on-slate drawings held my attention, bot for their almost-xrayness and for the process used to produce them -
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