Sophie Ploeg
Lace detail of Frans Hals' Portrait of a Man, 1635. Painted boldly, but carefully, with dark paint on top of dried white paint, depicting the negative space (the holes) of the lace. Showing large, probably bobbin lace collar. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
#lacepainting
Nov 17, 2022 at 7:57amWeb
Show threadstoicmikeNov 20, 2022
@Sophie the warm beauty of the lead white -- a thing young artists will never experience
Show threadSophie PloegNov 20, 2022
@stoicmike each to their own! I never got on with lead white and don't regret it not being available anymore.
Show threadSnarkologyNov 29, 2022

@Sophie -- As for lace, you perhaps also will like the portraits of #MarcusGheeraertsTheYounger. It seems that Henry Holiday liked them when he illustrated #LewisCarroll’s "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark".

Left: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger: Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn (1614).

Center: #HenryHoliday: Segment (in mirror view) from an illustration to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark" (1876).

Right: M. Gheeraerts t. Y.: Mary Throckmorton, Lady Scudamore (1615).

https://snrk.de/page_inspiration-by-re-interpretation/

Inspiration by Re-Interpretation – The Hunting of the Snark

Show threadSnarkologyNov 29, 2022

@Sophie -- In Lewis Carroll's "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark", a barrister cited «a number of cases, in which making laces had been proved an infringement of right.» (https://snrk.de/page_vivisection/)

How can #LaceMaking be an "infringement of right"?

#CharlesDarwin used #LacingNeedles for #dissection and #vivisection. C.L. Dodgson (#LewisCarroll) was opposed to vivisection.

https://www.academia.edu/9962213/Lace-Making_An_Infringement_of_Right

Lace-Making – The Hunting of the Snark

Show threadSophie PloegNov 29, 2022
@snarkology Fabulous! Thanks for sharing.