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Depictions of St. Patrick on #StPatricksDay ⁠ (Potteries/TullieHouse/BM) From realism to food satire...
March 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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“Self Portrait” by Peggy Fitzgerald (British) - Oil on canvas / 1937 - Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle, England) #WomenInArt #PeggyFitzgerald #TullieHouse #SelfPortrait #SelfPortrait #artText #art #BlueskyArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #bskyart #TullieHouseMuseum #BritishArt
Painted in 1937, on the eve of the Second World War, this self-portrait places Peggy Fitzgerald among the many interwar women artists who used their own image to claim professional visibility. Working within a crisp, representational style typical of 1930s British realism, she presents herself neither as muse nor ornament but as a thoughtful, modern painter, framed by her own art. The young white woman is shown from the chest up, turned slightly left but looking at us head-on. Her dark, tightly curled hair frames a pale, oval face with steady brown eyes and full red lips, set against a flat olive-green wall. She wears a close-fitting taupe top with narrow red-and-blue stripes edging the collar and running in a band down the front. In her right hand, raised to chest height, she holds a thin stem with a few glossy green leaves. A gold ring with a dark rectangular stone glints on her pinky finger. Behind her, cropped by the picture edge, hang two framed works: a color painting on the left and, on the right, a small print with hazy figures and faint lettering. The light falls evenly, modeling her features with careful, almost sculptural precision. The branch she holds can be read as a quiet emblem of growth and persistence, a living accent in an otherwise controlled interior. Almost nothing is known about Fitzgerald beyond brief records that list her as a British artist active in the 1930s and 1940s, with works such as “Sea Thoughts” exhibited or sold in the same period. Today, this canvas is believed to be her only oil painting in a UK public collection, making it a rare witness to a career largely missing from the written record and a reminder of how many women’s artistic lives survive chiefly through a single, resolute self-portrait.
November 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
metadot.bsky.social
Still my all time favourite Roman Bathhouse Site find from Carlisle Cricket Club - the tile with cat paw print 🥰❤️🐈 @TullieHouse @WA_LLP

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November 27, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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“The Mother of Sisera” by Albert Joseph Moore (British) - Oil on canvas / 1861 - Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery (Carlisle, England) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #AlbertJosephMoore #TullieHouse #VictorianArt #BiblicalArt #BritishArt #OilPainting #BlueskyArt #BritishArtist #PortraitofaWoman
British artist Albert Joseph Moore takes his subject from the Song of Deborah in Judges 5 of the Christian bible, where Sisera’s mother waits at the window and cries through the lattice, “Why is his chariot so long in coming?” The story’s outcome is grim because Sisera has been killed by Jael, yet the painting lingers on the suspended moment before certainty arrives. What we see is the labor of waiting with attention sharpened into worry and hope pressed against dread. The model is Fanny Eaton, a Jamaican-born woman who posed for artists in the Pre-Raphaelite circle, placing a Black muse at the center of a Victorian “biblical” image and complicating ideas of who embodies sacred history. It’s a close view of a woman at a window, shown from the chest up in right-facing profile. Her deep brown skin is modeled with soft, naturalistic light as a warm highlight traces her forehead, cheekbone, nose, and the edge of her lower lip, while the far side of her face dissolves into shadow. Her dark hair is smoothed back and gathered behind. She wears a pale, loosely draped garment that slips open at the throat, and a dense, collar-like necklace of clustered beads that sits heavy on her shoulders. The woman leans forward, intent. One hand rises to a wooden window frame with her fingertips hovering near a narrow grid-like lattice, as if she is about to part it or is listening through it. Behind her, the space is quiet and dark, in reddish-brown and umber tones that keep attention on her face and gesture. Her expression is both alert and strained with eyes wide, brow slightly lifted, mouth gently set, as though she is holding her breath while watching the road. Painted early in Moore’s Royal Academy career, the work shows his early gift for restrained drama, precise observation, and harmonized color. It entered Tullie House through the 1949 bequest of Emily and Gordon Bottomley, and it still reads as a tender study of maternal vigilance.
January 30, 2026 at 2:31 AM
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Starting on some exciting new work today! #3dprinting #vikings @archaeoptics.bsky.social #tulliehouse
3d prints of viking artefacts including a sword, axehead, and shield boss 3d prints of two viking oval brooches, one of which has been painted green
December 4, 2023 at 4:41 PM
metadot.bsky.social
And here's some Samian ware from Stanwix, the slightly later Roman fort of Carlisle's two forts 😊 It's in @TullieHouse ' collection as well:-) The sherd in the centre, @Pottedhistory and @sherdnerdE - would you think? Bear bum or dog bum? @ElsaKPrice and I weren't quite sure...
November 30, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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You people seemed to like my Roman gold coin tweet! I might have some more later today (gold and silver and bronze!) because @TullieHouse numismatic collection is very nice- very nice indeed!😇😉
metadot.bsky.social Dr Dot Boughton @metadot.bsky.social · Jun 3
Today @TullieHouse I found excitement looking at Roman gold coins! Aurei and solidi- prettiness!
November 28, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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I also had the opportunity to get my friend Oswald out of the store (@ElsaKPrice we really need to find a display spot for him!!)- to get him photographed @gabbyheffernan ❤️
I can't tell you how fond I am of our little Birdoswald genus! @TullieHouse
November 27, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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In my last job @findsorguk Thursdays were my @TullieHouse day! Used to travel up and down the M6 in all sorts of weather... Stay safe, Cumbrians!
December 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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#CatsofTwittter #Caturday of course our Roman kitty from Carlisle Roman Bathhouse- at Carlisle Cricket Club- must not be missed😆 @WA_LLP @TullieHouse
November 27, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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@Roman_Britain you tweeted about Samian mortaria (remember the angry mouse from #Caerwent ?) back in the summer and I've now found a fragment from Roman Tullie House @TullieHouse too!
November 30, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Not a sherd nerd but even I'm getting palpations at the beauty of this!!! Made by Apolaustius (thanks @ETheSherdnerd for helping with the database) around AD155-190. It's from Bewcastle Roman Fort, in @TullieHouse collection!
November 29, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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Back @TullieHouse with @ElsaKPrice enjoying the amazing collection and trying to find beautiful and exciting pieces for our @Wall_CAP display! Here's a huge amphora sherd, almost 30cm long! It's got a carefully drilled hole in the centre- but why?? We're puzzled, @ETheSherdnerd
November 29, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Oh, one more for @ETheSherdnerd & friends out there. This fragment of a flat bowl with decoration on the inside- left- and a photo of the profile, right.
From the Roman Bathhouse Site at Carlisle Cricket Club, excavated by the lovely staff and volunteers @WA_LLP @TullieHouse
November 27, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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I also developed a soft spot for Samian ware-I really like the animal decor!- and the sherd on the right even includs the maker's stamp in retrograde, Ivllinvs (AD160-200). Both sherds were found by @WA_LLP volunteers at Carlisle Cricket Club, Roman Bathhouse Site @TullieHouse
November 27, 2024 at 1:18 PM
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Even though I'm a Prehistorian (though, honestly, am I still?? I do wonder sometimes!) I have developed a fondness of Roman artefacts over the years- and @TullieHouse has so many in their collection! I love, eg, gaming boards (Nine Men's Morris, anyone?) and pieces like these!
November 29, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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Two smaller finds from Old Penrith not make from glass or copper alloy are this button made from jet (poss a reworked circular button/bead) and this bone counter, ones of my favourites. I think we'll be putting a gaming board & counters in one of the other cases 🥰 @TullieHouse
November 29, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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One of the nicest surprises at our Roman Bathhouse @WA_LLP Volunteer Finds Day yesterday was that one of the Design& Technology @LRGSLancaster visited me @TullieHouse to look at our Roman collection- he was so lucky to actually see the object he'll be making a mount for!!! ⤵️
November 27, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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There are about 26 objects from the Roman Bathhouse Site at Carlisle Cricket Club that @LRGSLancaster Design & Technology A-level students are making mounts for... Here are some more. I'll be sending these photos off to their teacher on Monday; let's hope they help! @TullieHouse
November 27, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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Ever wanted to see our cat paw print tile up close? Here's your chance! We've had the wonderful @ardern_hb
and @charlottesrgnt from @LivUni at @TullieHouse to help our volunteers photograph our Carlisle Cricket Club Roman Bathhouse objects -...
November 27, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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@TullieHouse are hosting @RomanFindsGrp next weekend (so excited!) and I've been busy preparing a small box of intaglios for the master of gems, Martin Henig. Here's one from Birdoswald but he'll also check out the new finds from our Roman Bathhouse @carlislecricket @WA_LLP 😄😄
November 27, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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At @tulliehouse today recording Roman coins from Cambridgeshire and medieval sherds from the lovely Eden Valley....
December 2, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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At @TullieHouse today, recording amongst other artefacts this lovely flint arrowhead from #Cumbria today! #PAS https://t.co/c3spqp4Hjk
December 2, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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@TullieHouse ps it's ED9222 on the @findsorguk database!
December 2, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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The LANCUM advent calendar of fab finds kicks off with this Thor's hammer from Carlisle acquired by @TullieHouse <3 https://t.co/epL4KKW5H9
December 2, 2024 at 5:56 PM