Lucretia Baskin

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Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· 2d

Tiepolo dogs are always so good

Detail of an oil painting. In the bottom right corner is the head of a brown and white dog looking away from us and towards the figure it’s sitting next to. The detail only shows part of a hand and red and white fabric of a cloak.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· 13d

Ended with some time under the broiler. Seems to have done the trick!

Batch of blueberry muffins cooling on a rack. The tops are nice and browned.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· 20d

Cannot get these muffins to brown on top unless I overbake them. Tried top rack, don’t want to try sugar on top. The muffins are dairy free, so no milk sugars to brown, and not much other sugar either (old school Fannie Farmer recipe). *grumble* At least they taste good?

More pale topped muffins in their pan, one turned to show the bottom has browned.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· 21d

Outstanding dark pattern here. Not pleased by how long it took me to realize there are in fact 2 buttons. (My phone settings probably didn’t help - I keep night shift on 24/7, and the screen brightness fairly low, too.)

Screenshot of cookie acceptance pop up, with a blazing green “accept all” button and a nearly-invisible light gray “reject” button.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jul 20

Right in the feels. 🥺

Snipped image from an OCLC MARC record. It says “500 Very imperfect”.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jul 10

More images, these from the August 27, 1927 issue of Il Martello. Plus ça change…

A drawing of a death’s head wearing Liberty’s crown, sitting on the signed death warrant for Sacco & Vanzetti

A drawing of a personification of justice, Sacco, and Vanzetti chained to a crucifix-like structure. At the base is a caricature of Judge Thayer.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jul 10

Cataloging part of a large anarchist collection that came to BPL. This is from the 20 August 1927 issue of Il Martello (The Hammer), regarding Sacco & Vanzetti.

Cartoon of an angry looking man seated and paging through a giant book on his lap that’s titled “Theory and practice of refined torture”. The cartoon is captioned “Il codice penale del Massachusetts”.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jul 5

Attempting to wrap my brain around Jane Lynch getting a paw from one of the creepy robot dogs for a truly bizarre bit of Massachusetts boosterism.

Jane Lynch surrounded by a trio of yellow and black robot dogs. She’s got a mic in one hand, and is raising the other like she’s going to high five one of the dogs

Jane Lynch again, with one of the robot dogs in closer, and now she’s doing “down low” with her non-mic hand

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jun 26

Farmer’s market cherries, plus two supermarket ones on top for scale comparison.

A paper container of cherries. Most are little, with two much bigger ones on top.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jun 22

Digital Evans request! If anyone has access, I am in need of an image of Evans 15200/ESTC W18821. Is it the same as the LC photostat image? Thanks in advance for the help!

18th century Virginia broadside from May 15, 1776, complaining about the British government.

Bad OCR of first half of document:

IN CONVENTION.
PRESENT 112 MEMBERS.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1776.
Forasmuch as all the endeavours of the United Colonies, by the moft decent reprefentations and petitions to the king and parliament of Great Britain, to reftore peace and fecurity to America under the Britif government, and a re-union with that people upon juft and liberal terms,
inftead of a redrels of grievances,
have produced,
from an imperious and vindictive adminiftration,
increafed infult, oppreflion,
and a vigorous attempt to effect our
total deftruction.
By a late act, all thefe colonies are declared to
be in rebellion,
and out of the protection of the Britif crown,
our
properties fubjected to confifcation,
our people,
when captivated,
compelled to join in the murder and plunder of their relations and countrymen,
and all former rapine and oppreflion of Americans
declared legal and juft.
Fleets and armies are raifed, and the aid
of foreign troops engaged to affift thefe deftructive purpoles:
The
king's reprefentative in this colony hath not only withheld all the powers of government from operating for our fafety, but,
having
retired on board an armed thip,
is carrying on a piratical and
favage war againft us, tempting our flaves,
by every artifice, to
refort to him, and training and employing them againft their matters.
In this flate of extreme danger,
we have no alternative left but an
abject fubmiltion to the will of thofe over-bearing tyrants, or a total leparation from the crown and government of Great Britain, uniting and exerting the frength of all America for defence, and forming alliances with foreign powers for commerce and aid in war …

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· May 24

Bear signs.

Black compost cover on a lawn, flipped over and no longer on the compost pile.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Apr 20

Fled marathon chaos at home for points further north. Moody weather today. Very cold and windy, and the sky keeps dropping frozen … stuff (“graupel” maybe?). Grateful to have access to a nice borrowed landing spot.

view of salt water inlet from shore, with land across water in the whole view. There are pine trees on all the land. The sky is moody with heavy grey clouds broken by blue spots, and they’re reflected in the water.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Apr 18

Another fun Maine vanity license plate to add to my collection. It was on a souped-up and blacked out Audi wagon. I HOPE they’re in on the joke?

Maine license plate on a front bumper of a very shiny black Audi. The plate reads “DORSIA”.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Apr 18

Love me a solid desire path.

Foot-worn path across small green park with a little copse of birch trees. Beyond the path, across the street, is a large hotel.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Mar 15

search your camera roll for hell (three options)

Detail from Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis no. 1

Page from New York magazine titled “The Culture Pages” with an article headline “What the hell was modernism” over a black and white photograph by Eve Arnold of a middle-aged lady in a suit and carrying a handbag, looking at a sculpture of a little seated guy by my dad at MOMA in the 1960s.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Feb 27

Glamourous special collections life: crawling around on concrete floors to label stacks.

Concrete floor, a pile of number stickers, and the base of an aisle of shelving

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jan 29

In today’s cataloging pile, a small group of handbills and posters relating to an 1888 US railroad strike. These were posted in Superior, Nebraska.

Pink poster with black text and woodcut illustration of a train wreck. Text:

IF YOU DO NOT
WANT TO BE KILLED
- OR HAVE YOUR
PROPERTY DESTROYED
DO NOT PATRONIZE THE
GREAT SCAB ROUTE
THE C, B. & Q. R.R.

Yellow poster with black text and a small woodcut of a train wreck. Text:

Take the Creat American
SCAB ROUTE THE C. B. & Q.
Prepare to
Meet Thy God.
CLOSE CONNECTIONS WITH THE HEREAFTER.
(THROUGH TICKETS TO POINTS ON RIVER STYX.)

Handbill with black text:
FARMERS
AND
LABORERS!
BARNUM AND LONDON CIRCUS
Have Patronized the
Scab Route
nearly all Summer, and at cities where Good Roads run parallel with this ENEMY of Honest Labor, this
HIGH-HANDED PIRATE!

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Jan 11

@wynkenhimself.bsky.social are you still gathering pomegranates? Just saw this lovely painting today at the Harvard Art Museums.

Ink and wash painting of two pomegranates.

Label text for painting:

Park Nosoo ［Pak No-su］今（朴魯壽），
also known as Namjeong [Namchong]
（藍丁）
Korean (Yeongi, South Chungcheong province 1927-2013 Seoul)
Pomegranates 柘榴
Created in Korea, 1958
Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of David Berg, Esq., by exchange, 2003.58.36

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Dec 21

And since I posted the muppets, I’m also posting my carrot from April 2020. Yes, it arrived like this. And yes, I’m an art historian so my FIRST thought was Courbet.

Carrot with appendages and dirt looking like a pudgy belly and a crotch with pubes. It looks a LOT like Courbet’s painting L’origin du monde.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Dec 15

Went to the Norton Simon Museum for the first time, too. What a lovely place. Smitten with this Toulouse Lautrec.

Waist-up 3/4 view from behind of a red-haired woman wearing a pale blouse in a garden of wild greens and yellows. This is a model TL depicted frequently, but I can’t recall her name.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Dec 15

Diorama at Painted Desert visitors center, showing two alligator-like ancient lizards fighting in front of a swampy forest.

A rock formation that looks like a pyramid rising out of desert sands. There’s a very bright sun above it.

More rock formations that look like pyramids, this time you can see the bands of white brown and red strata. There’s a road cutting across the scene from lower left to the center.

A rock with petroglyphs carved in it. You can only see this from an overlook, so need a telescope or binoculars to really see them clearly.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Dec 15

NM and also some AZ

Back of a wooden sign at the top of the Rio Grande Gorge, showing multiple bullet holes through it

Canyon valley with very bright sun, craggy walls with scrubby vegetation, and the small-ish Rio Grande River running through it

View of part of the painted desert. The rocks are eroded and show many strata of colors ranging from red to pink to white. I don’t know what these formations are called.

Close up of petrified wood that looks like a hewn log but is now rock.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Dec 15

Went to NM for the first time and saw some things.

Snow capped peaks in the distance under a pinkish sky. Lower mountains in the foreground are covered in scrubby pine trees.

long metal truss bridge over an enormous rocky gorge, with mountains in the background and a lot of blue sky above

More views of rocky gorges and mountains and blue sky

Sheer cliffside with a baby bighorn sheep at the top and a young ram halfway down it.

Lucretia Baskin@lucretiab· Dec 15

Went to the 45th annual Black Doll Show in LA, at the William Grant Still Community Center. The show is called Sower of Seeds, and artists responded to Octavia Butler’s work Parable of the Sower. An amazing exhibit, with some incredibly talented artists. wgsac.wordpress.com/the-45th-ann...