Dr Mark Purcell
@camlibresearch
Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Received in audience by the Rector. Don’t tell the Ragusans but it’s a bit Toytown Venice. I think me may be bored as he’s locked in the Palace for the duration of his month in office.
Looking out for Uskok raiders from the walls of Ragusa. All quiet so far.
Galleys sighted off Ragusa. Could this be a preliminary to a Venetian attack?
Sitting in the Society of Antiquaries in London, enjoying ice-cold aircon on a sticky evening and reflecting that I must be unusual in having a close association with with two organisations with a charter from and commemorating with gratitude poor old Queen Mary (plus the Ants, with her portrait).
Yesterday at Melford Hall. Fine library interior by Thomas Hopper.
Here is the cathedral’s other tapestry, by the German artist Ursula Benker-Schirmer. Intended as a post-war symbol of friendship and reconciliation, it stands above the shrine of St Richard of Chichester.
Back in Chichester last weekend - where I spent my gap year as cathedral organ scholar. Great stuff: John Piper, and (even better) Chagall.
Much enjoyed a lunchtime visit to the Michaelina Wautier exhibition at the Royal Academy today, en route to a meeting elsewhere in Burlington House.
Waiting for a train at King’s Cross and looked up. Fascinating.
It’s cooking off and the Mediterranean heat of the weekend is now forgotten.
Flowers coming out on the Moroccan pineapple broom in our front garden. Three or four weeks of flowery fireworks every year. Late this year.
Nonetheless domestically things are moving in the right direction (though the prints here are probably a bit gothic for Soane).
And definitely pictures floor to ceiling, some hung on doors so that we could have an extra layer of pictures underneath …