#William Kent

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Assembly of the Gods.

Artist: William Kent (1685-1748)

Date: 1719-1720

Medium: Oil on plaster

#history #art #decorative arts #history of art #art history #painting #oil on plaster #assembly of the gods #william kent #1719 #1720

[nobeerreviews]

Garden as though you will live forever.

-- William Kent

#garden #beauty #live forever #william kent #nature photography #quote #garden photography #switzerland #physalis

[beautyandtheharpsichord]

Holkham Hall, Wells-nex-the-Sea, Norfolk

#18th century #william kent #architecture #interiors #neo-palladian #holkham hall #uk

[nickysfacts]

Me going down the street, showing off my carriage to the peasant crawling babies!😄

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#history #baby stroller #william kent #baby carriage #england #status symbol #little space #devonshire #stroller #ab/dl #babyhood #baby girl #baby space #baby care #ab/dl community #1700s #carriage #english history #little space community #luxurious #pony #goat #uk #historical figures #nickys facts

[letterboxd-loggd]

King of Jazz (1930) John Murray Anderson

September 29th 2022

#king of jazz #1930 #john murray anderson #paul whiteman #charles irwin #john boles #laura la plante #jeanette loff #william kent #bing crosby #walter brennan #jeanie lang #joan marsh #walter lantz #the king of jazz revue #the paul whiteman king of jazz revue #pre-code

[pilgrim1975]

Jean Lee, Australia’s last woman to hang.

The name of Jean Lee or (to use her real name) Marjorie Jean Maude Wright, is largely forgotten today, as are hey numerous aliases. Depending on who Wright talked to she was Marjorie Jean Brees, Mrs H. Pearce, Jean Deacon, Jean White, Marie Williams, Marjorie Lee, Jean Duncan, Jean Brown, Jean Smith, Mesha Vetos or ‘Skinny Jean,’ but ‘Jean Lee’ was the alias she was most known for. Outside of…

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#Australia #badger game #Brownout Strangler #Charles Leonard Gavan Duffy #death penalty #Eddie Leonski #History #Jean Lee #Judge Duffy #Melbourne #Morris Dias #murder #New South Wales #Norman Andrews #Pop Kent #Raymond Brees #Robert Clayton #true crime #Victoria #William Kent

[canis-majoris]

#William Kent #chiswick house #ceiling

[inntervalspauline]

The 'Arcadian Narrative'

"Their decadent state heightened the sense of rediscovery. [...] The pleasure of ruins far outshone the French taste for geometry."

[...] looseness that is conducive to the work of the imagination in its quest for the sublime experience."

#N.C. - NA - p.25f. #William Kent

[onixuma]

Garden as though you will live forever.

William Kent

#quote #quotes #william kent

[blairwaldcrf]

Ted Lasso - 3x08

#tedlassoedit #ted lasso #tedlassosource #tedlassogif #ted lasso 3x08 #ted lasso spoilers #henry lasso #roy kent #william kitman #coach beard #trent crimm #*by me #*** #****

[browsethestacks]

Daredevil And Elektra (1991)

Art by Kent Williams

#Comics #Marvel Comics #Daredevil #Elektra #Kent Williams #Art #Marvel

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

Batman/Superman: World's Finest variant cover by Dan Mora.

#bruce wayne #clark kent #william shatner #diana prince #oliver queen #hal jordan #barry allen #batman #superman #wonder woman #the flash #green arrrow #green lantern #hawkwoman #red tornado #firestorm #dan mora #dc comics #dc covers

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Ted Lasso 3x2 | Christmas In Notting Hill

#thought this was hilarious #hallmark vs ted lasso #ted lasso #christmas in notting hill #movie #movies #filmedit #filmedits #William Moseley #Sarah Ramos #jason sudeikis #brett goldstein #roy kent #gif #gifs #gifset

[thcrin]

Ted Lasso 3.02

#tedlassoedit #tvedit #chewieblog #userfrodosam #userlindir #kendalroys #jamie tartt #roy kent #tv: ted lasso #two himbos #ted lasso spoilers #william

[manyworldspress]

Alex Maleev, untitled (Hellboy), 2023. Mixed media, oils and acrylics, 13 x 20 inches. Posted to Twitter, March 24, 2023.

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#alex maleev #hellboy #mike mignola #kent williams #anung un rama #mignolaverse #comic book art #comic book characters

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Leslie Patrick

1 August 2023

Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536), King Henry VIII's second queen, is often portrayed as a seductress and ultimately the woman responsible for changing the face of religion in England.

In reality, she was a fiercely intelligent and pious woman dedicated to education and religious reform.

But after her arrest and execution on false charges of adultery and incest in May 1536, Henry VIII was determined to forget her memory.

Her royal emblems were removed from palace walls, her sparkling jewels tucked away in dark coffers, and her precious books disappeared from the pages of time.

One of Boleyn’s books that has reappeared is the Book of Hours, a stunning prayer book, printed around 1527 with devotional texts designed to be read throughout the day, features hand-painted woodcuts — as well as a rare example of the queen’s own writing.

In the margins of one of the beautifully decorated pages, she penned a rhyming couplet followed by her signature:

“Remember me when you do pray, that hope doth lead from day to day, Anne Boleyn.”

The book vanished with Boleyn’s execution in 1536, then resurfaced around 1903 when it was acquired by the American millionaire William Waldorf Astor (31 March 1848 – 18 October 1919) after he purchased Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn’s childhood home in the English countryside.

The hiding place of the disgraced queen’s devotional tome had been a mystery for centuries, until recent research by a university student uncovered hidden signatures that helped trace its path through history.

The discovery

The book’s whereabouts in the 367 years between Boleyn’s death and its reemergence remained puzzling until 2020 when Kate McCaffrey, then a graduate student at the University of Kent working on her master’s thesis about Anne Boleyn’s Book of Hours, found something unexpected in the margins of the book.

“I noticed what appeared to be smudges to the naked eye,” recalls McCaffrey, assistant curator at Hever Castle since 2021.

Intrigued, she borrowed an industrial-strength ultraviolet light and set it up in the darkest room of Hever Castle.

Ultraviolet light is often used to examine historical documents because ink absorbs the ultraviolet wavelength, causing it to appear darker against the page when exposed.

“The words just came through. It was incredible to see them underneath the light, they were completely illuminated,” the curator recalls.

McCaffrey’s theory is that the words were erased during the late Victorian era when it was popular to cleanse marginalia from books or manuscripts.

But thanks to her extraordinary detective work, these erased words turned out to be the key that unlocked the tale of the book’s secret journey from certain destruction at the royal court to safety in the hands of a dedicated group of Boleyn’s supporters.

The guardians

Indeed, various pages throughout the text reveal the names and notations of a string of Kentish women — Elizabeth Hill, Elizabeth Shirley, Mary Cheke, Philippa Gage, and Mary West — who banded together to safeguard Anne's precious book and keep her memory alive.

While it’s unclear how the book was initially passed to these women, Anne Boleyn expert Natalie Grueninger suggests it was gifted by Anne to a woman named Elizabeth Hill.

Elizabeth grew up near Hever Castle, and her husband, Richard Hill, was sergeant of the King’s Cellar at Henry VIII’s court.

There are records of the Hill’s playing cards with the king, and there may have been a friendship between Elizabeth and the queen that prompted Boleyn to pass her prayer book on before her execution.

“This extended Kentish family kept the book safe following Anne’s demise, which was an incredibly brave and bold act considering it could have been considered treasonous,” says Grueninger, podcaster and author of the book The Final Year of Anne Boleyn.

Anne’s Book of Hours was passed between mothers, daughters, sisters, and nieces until the late sixteenth century, when the last name makes its appearance in its margins.

“This story is an example of the women in the family prioritizing loyalty, friendship, fidelity, and a personal connection to Anne,” says McCaffrey.

“The fact that the women have kept it safe is a really beautiful story of solidarity, community, and bravery.”

The book, currently on display at Hever Castle, is a touchstone of the enigma that was Anne Boleyn.

Castle historian and assistant curator Owen Emmerson points out that the book contains Anne’s DNA on the pages from where she touched and kissed it during her daily devotions.

“This was a really beloved possession of hers,” says Emmerson.

“Because of what happened to Anne Boleyn, we don’t have a vast amount of information in Anne’s own words. But the physical remnants of her use of the book, and the construction of that beautiful little couplet, have her identity in them.”

While Anne’s Book of Hours has finally found its way home, the research into this intriguing historical mystery is not yet over.

McCaffrey continues to chart the book’s provenance through the centuries to find out where it was hiding all this time.

The discovery of the inscriptions illuminates the book’s furtive journey, providing us with a glimpse into the controversy, loyalty, and fascination that Anne Boleyn has engendered for the past 500 years.

#Anne Boleyn #King Henry VIII #Book of Hours #William Waldorf Astor #Hever Castle #Kate McCaffrey #University of Kent #ultraviolet light #Natalie Grueninger #Owen Emmerson #Elizabeth Hill #Elizabeth Shirley #Mary Cheke #Philippa Gage #Mary West #The Tudors #House of Tudor #British Royal Family