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Born #OnThisDay 1841, Scottish seascape painter Colin Hunter: this appealing one (at Leighton House Museum) entitled "Fishing Boats off the Coast of Cornwall" (1883) shows two fishermen offloading their catch at the rocky shore https://victorianweb.org/painting/hunter/paintings/2.html #painting #se14 views Born #OnThisDay 1841, Scottish seascape painter Colin Hunter: this appealing one (at Leighton House Museum) entitled "Fishing Boats off the Coast of Cornwall" (1883) shows two fishermen offloading their catch at the rocky shore https://victorianweb.org/painting/hunter/paintings/2.html #painting #se Just for fun, one of Ralph Caldecott's drawings used in a colour postcard, "This is the Cat that Killed the Rat," from "This is the House that Jack Built"--poised for its pounce. It captures that tension and intent gaze perfectly! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/caldecott/21.html13 views Just for fun, one of Ralph Caldecott's drawings used in a colour postcard, "This is the Cat that Killed the Rat," from "This is the House that Jack Built"--poised for its pounce. It captures that tension and intent gaze perfectly! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/caldecott/21.html "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines..." Indeed! In Turner's apocalyptic "The Angel Standing in the Sun," sinners flee from the blinding light. This powerful #painting is shown in a discussion of "Turner & Tradition" by Elizabeth Helsinger. https://victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/artofthe11 views "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines..." Indeed! In Turner's apocalyptic "The Angel Standing in the Sun," sinners flee from the blinding light. This powerful #painting is shown in a discussion of "Turner & Tradition" by Elizabeth Helsinger. https://victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/artofthe Almost the end of the month again! Do check out our What's New for June. There's something for just about everyone—from early technology (the ill-fated steam yacht Gunilda, & early film—its origins may surprise you!), to women's art (in watercolour & stained glass). New work on Vernon Lee too. Li9 views Almost the end of the month again! Do check out our What's New for June. There's something for just about everyone—from early technology (the ill-fated steam yacht Gunilda, & early film—its origins may surprise you!), to women's art (in watercolour & stained glass). New work on Vernon Lee too. Li

📊 Post engagement

7
Avg engagement / post
1.8%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Born #OnThisDay 1841, Scottish seascape painter Colin Hunter: th · 14 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
3.4 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
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Follows 28 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Born #OnThisDay 1841, Scottish seascape painter Colin Hunter: this appealing one (at Leighton House Museum) entitled "Fishing Boats off the Coast of Cornwall" (1883) shows two fishermen offloading their catch at the rocky shore https://victorianweb.org/painting/hunter/paintings… ★ 14
Born on this day (18 July) 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray: the author of "Vanity Fair" wasn't born in England, but In India, and this is the family church, St John's in in Kolkata, where both his parents and grandparents were married … ★ 2 Not a football frenzy, but Harry Furniss illustrating the furious mob storming the Bastille in Dickens's "Tale of Two Cities" for Bastille Day today! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/furniss/110.html ★ 8 "The Ardour and the Joy of a Game at Foot-Ball" by Fred Barnard, in Harper's Weekly (10 November 1888): not really football but the excitement is the same! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/barnard/26.html #sports #WorldCup Kilvert's Diary on 9th July, 1871: "It was sultry hot climbing the hill though there was the blowing of a wind from the west.... the tall brown and purple grasses were all in billows like the sea..." https://victorianweb.org/authors/k… ★ 3 "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines..." Indeed! In Turner's apocalyptic "The Angel Standing in the Sun," sinners flee from the blinding light. This powerful #painting is shown in a discussion of "Turner & Tradition" by Elizabeth… ★ 11 A favourite cooling painting for a hot evening: William McTaggart's "And all the Choral Waters Sang" (1902, in the McManus Dundee's Art Gallery.) The title comes from a Swinburne poem. So many colours in these rippling waves! https://vict… ★ 4 Just for fun, one of Ralph Caldecott's drawings used in a colour postcard, "This is the Cat that Killed the Rat," from "This is the House that Jack Built"--poised for its pounce. It captures that tension and intent gaze perfectly! https:/… ★ 13 On 1 July 1865, Lewis Carroll was in Windsor, and happened to see the Queen go past in an open carriage. He noted proudly in his journal, "[I] ... got a bow from her all to myself"! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/tenniel/look… ★ 5 Almost the end of the month again! Do check out our What's New for June. There's something for just about everyone—from early technology (the ill-fated steam yacht Gunilda, & early film—its origins may surprise you!), to women's art (in … ★ 9 Portrait of Miss Mary Palliser, by Frederick William Burton, 1871. The artist and his sitter fell in love, but sadly Mary died, perhaps of TB, #OTD 26 June 1879, before they were in a position to get married. https://victorianweb.org/vi… ★ 3 Worrying about wildfires in the heatwave? During the 19c. #fire insurance became particularly important in the industrial north: here are some different companies' insurance plaques on buildings in York https://victorianweb.org/places/cit… ★ 8

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 7 views per post.
📤Posts about 3.4× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 79% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Content engagement (~1.8% of followers) is around typical for Mastodon.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
79%
Fake-follower risk
Medium

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Linking scholarship, teaching & learning since 1994, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to Victorian art and culture.

📸 Gallery

Born on this day (18 July) 1811, William Makepeace Thackeray: the author of "Vanity Fair" wasn't born in England, but In India, and this is the family church, St John's in in Kolkata, where both his parents and grandparents were married https://victorianweb.org/history/empire/india/31.html Born #OnThisDay 1841, Scottish seascape painter Colin Hunter: this appealing one (at Leighton House Museum) entitled "Fishing Boats off the Coast of Cornwall" (1883) shows two fishermen offloading their catch at the rocky shore https://victorianweb.org/painting/hunter/paintings/2.html #painting #se Not a football frenzy, but Harry Furniss illustrating the furious mob storming the Bastille in Dickens's "Tale of Two Cities" for Bastille Day today! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/furniss/110.html "The Ardour and the Joy of a Game at Foot-Ball" by Fred Barnard, in Harper's Weekly (10 November 1888): not really football but the excitement is the same! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/barnard/26.html #sports #WorldCup Kilvert's Diary on 9th July, 1871: "It was sultry hot climbing the hill though there was the blowing of a wind from the west.... the tall brown and purple grasses were all in billows like the sea..." https://victorianweb.org/authors/kilvert/july.html #landscape "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines..." Indeed! In Turner's apocalyptic "The Angel Standing in the Sun," sinners flee from the blinding light. This powerful #painting is shown in a discussion of "Turner & Tradition" by Elizabeth Helsinger. https://victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/artofthe A favourite cooling painting for a hot evening: William McTaggart's "And all the Choral Waters Sang" (1902, in the McManus Dundee's Art Gallery.) The title comes from a Swinburne poem. So many colours in these rippling waves! https://victorianweb.org/painting/mctaggart/paintings/4.html #painting Just for fun, one of Ralph Caldecott's drawings used in a colour postcard, "This is the Cat that Killed the Rat," from "This is the House that Jack Built"--poised for its pounce. It captures that tension and intent gaze perfectly! https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/caldecott/21.html

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