Poking around the Science Museum’s archives, I came across this rather fabulous ‘Dick Turpin’ themed LNER poster for train travel to York.
Just look at how wonderful it is!
‘To York, Dick Turpin’s Ride’
Category: Art
Yorkersgate Christmas Postbox Topper
Sadly rather late, but here is another entry in the ongoing TopperBlog series. This topper could be found on Malton’s Yorkersgate in the run up to Christmas 2025. t was a pretty thing though, alas, my photographs appear to have blown out the red – I’ll have to try and figure out why.
Trains of the Future, Trains of the Past
Here’s something to take the edge off that liminal space between Christmas and New Year; two nicely illustrated articles from Adam Rowe’s always fun 70s Sci-Fi Art.
First we have Trains of the Future…
…and then Trains of the Past.
Robin Hood’s Bay in Winter / Ethel Walker
Ethel Walker’s Robin Hood’s Bay in Winter.It seems to be on permanent exhibition at York Art Gallery and, I must note, looks better in person.
Winter on Fifth Avenue / Alfred Stieglitz (1893*)
Alfred Stieglitz’s Winter on Fifth Avenue. This was, apparently, one of the first times that driving snow had been photographed.
From Harvard Art Museum’s collection.
*Probably. Apparently there’s a little confusion around dates.
Winter Sea / Paul Nash (1925–1937)
Paul Nash’s Winter Sea. Painted between 1925 and 1937.
Winterlandschap met Schaatsers en Vogelknip (Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap) / Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)
Let’s start this Christmas week with a copy of Pieter Bruegel’s Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap.
Hall of the Golden Hue, Hiraizumi / Hasui Kawase (1957)
Merry Winter Solstice 2025! And to mark it off, here’s a lovely woodcut by Hasui Kawase.
Stable / Kathleen Herbert (2007)
I think I first mentioned Kathleen Herbert’s Stable back in mid August when I posted the video for Melanie Manchot’s Cornered Star.
Cover art from a UK release of Neil Stephenson’s Quicksilver
Another one that (currently) doesn’t seem that easy to Google (even though it should be!)
