Vincent van GoghYour daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Daubigny's Garden, 1890
In museum: Kunstmuseum Basel
Location: Basel, Switzerland
Size: 101.5 × 54.0 cm
Claude MonetYour daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
The Isle of La Grande Jatte, 1878
In museum: Pola Museum of Art
Location: Sengokuhara, Japan
Size: 74.5 × 56.3 cm
Mick GarrattHareshaw Linn: The Waterfall That Forgot Its Past
Standing here at the foot of Hareshaw Linn, I would swear nothing had ever disturbed this place. Dripping rock. Ancient ferns. A waterfall cascading thirty feet into a rust-brown pool. It feels, as one writer put it, like “an ancient rainforest.“
It is not. Not even slightly. As we discovered from the inf ...
https://www.fhithich.uk/2026/04/24/hareshaw-linn-the-waterfall-that-forgot-its-past/
Assoc for Scottish LiteratureMany, many books by R.M. Ballantyne – including FIGHTING THE FLAMES and THE LIGHTHOUSE – can be downloaded for free from @gutenberg_org
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/333
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne
Ballantyne’s research led him to spend 16 days on the Bell Rock lighthouse:
“I did not think that any building made by man could have withstood the terrific sea that has been swirling and roaring round and pounding against us.”
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/4783307/rm-ballantyne-bell-rock-lighthouse/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne #lighthouse
“One thing that Ballantyne did, which sets him apart from contemporary children’s authors, was carry out detailed research for his novels […] He worked in a Cornish tin mine (Deep Down: a Tale of the Cornish Mines), went to the bottom of the Thames in a diving suit (Under the Waves), and for Fighting the Flames worked in a London fire station.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne #firefighters #firebrigade
RM Ballantyne (1825–1894) was born #OTD, 24 April. Best known today for THE CORAL ISLAND – which influenced Robert Louis Stevenson, JM Barrie, William Golding, & others – he wrote more than 100 books.
In this blog post, National Library of Scotland Curator Graham Hogg introduces Ballantyne’s 1867 novel FIGHTING THE FLAMES: A Tale of the London Fire Brigade
https://blog.nls.uk/curators-favourites-r-m-ballantynes-fighting-the-flames/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne #firefighters #firebrigade
Your daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Still Life with Oranges Basket,
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
The Cliffs at Étretat, 1886
In museum: Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Location: Khamovniki District, Russia
Size: 81.0 × 66.0 cm
Your daily dose of Dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Glass with Carnations,
