Friday, June 13, 2003

Avebury revisited. I'm sure Armin will like this. Avebury - a Present from the Past must be the best website about the amazing stone circles. It comes with lots of maps (historical and new), diagrams, photos and Quicktime VR movies. Simply fantastic. Oh, it's Summer, it's warm. If I still had my Caterham 7 (1700 SuperSprint) I would just drive down there... stay in Marlborough at the Ivy House Hotel, meet all the crop circle guys (and those from Berlin!) at the Barge Inn in Alton Barnes, have a pint at the Red Lion and check out Silbury Hill and the White Horses in between. Sigh...it's just not as much fun in a Ford Fiesta...! Grin: All those links should keep you busy for a while. It's still too hot to blog. 8:11:54 PM     |

Gin Lane. A nice little Hogarth Scrapbook. "Recent cataloguing work has turned up a new discovery of engravings and etchings by William Hogarth (1697-1764). The collection appears to have belonged to the Manchester collector John Legh Philips, whose library and collection of prints and paintings was sold after his death in 1814. The collection is contained in a large scrapbook measuring 63 x 47 cm. A total of 190 prints have been pasted onto both sides of fifty leaves on paper which has now become acidic and brittle. The prints themselves have been cut down, but in most cases without affecting the impression of the plates." 7:25:41 PM     |