Henry Rothwell
@henryrothwell
Lapsed archaeologist. Entranced by ponds. Still working on 4th debut novel. Chooser of images at @rathergoodart.bsky.social Curious Notes collected here
"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
Currently working of a piece concerning the Dunstable Echinoid Burial, excavated and illustrated by the rather intriguing Worthington George Smith.
Small browny/orange butterfly on a nettle. Any identification welcome.
'Sunset Over The Fjord', Adelsteen Normann, oil on canvas, 20th cent.
'Heathrow from the Air', Norman Wilkinson, oil on canvas, 1948/50.
‘View of Azalea Garden and Mount Fuji’, Hasui Kawase, woodblock print, 1935.
The moat around the Bishop's Palace. Either stickleback numbers are down this year (they seemed to be flourishing a few weeks ago) or they're brighter than me, and keeping out of the sun.
The Venus of Willendorf in iron pyrites. Found on a Sussex beach.
Medieval lectern carved into the shape of an eagle, by someone who was familiar with geese.
'Cornfield at Wiston-by-Nayland, Suffolk', John Nash, oil on canvas, 1932.
'Winter Sunset' by Émile Antoine Verpilleux, colour print from woodblocks, printed in 1928.
'Storm in the Mountains', Albert Bierstadt, oil on canvas, 1870.
I remember when, I remember, I remember when I was one of Japan's most important and prolific printmakers, and a prominent designer of the shin-hanga movement. Does that make me Kawase? ‘Ushibori in the Rain’, Hasui Kawase, woodblock print, 1929.
Tavener was remarkably talented. 'Hedgerow and Downs No.3', Robert Tavener, linocut, 1970.
The trilogy was an even more impressive feat when you realise it was written with a fountain pen and a lot of paper. The manuscript is now in the Seattle Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum.
'River with Pollard Willows', by Joséphine Bowes, oil on canvas, c. 1860.
A Natural History of Selborne edition I didn't have (see pics for toothbrush ad from 1941), and some late 50s sci-fi comics. I could have come away with so much more but I ran out of time.