Victoria Grainger

@VGrainger

Beautiful Shakespeare-related Art 🤍All sorts MA 🦢from Stratford’s Shakespeare Institute📚 Brummie 🇬🇧 Bruxelloise 🇧🇪 Val-d'Oise 🇫🇷 ☕️🥐✍🏻💋

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Joined August 2011

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 10

“Before you can say “Come” & “Go” And breathe twice & cry “So, so!” Each one, tripping on his toe Will be here with mop & mow..”💕 #Shakespeare’s Ariel🌬 🎨#ArthurRackham’s ‘Each one, tripping on his toe..’ 🤍 from his beautiful 1926 illustrated edition of #TheTempest🌊

VGrainger's tweet image. “Before you can say “Come” &amp; “Go”
And breathe twice &amp; cry “So, so!”
Each one, tripping on his toe
Will be here with mop &amp; mow..”💕
#Shakespeare’s Ariel🌬

🎨#ArthurRackham’s ‘Each one, tripping on his toe..’ 🤍 from his beautiful 1926 illustrated edition of #TheTempest🌊

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · 6 h

“I have thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time” #Shakespeare’s #HenryIVPart1 #TourDeFrance🏆#TDF2025 🎨Dynamism of a Cyclist #UmbertoBoccioni💛 And 🤩👇🏻🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️📐!🇫🇷

TTour de France™@LeTour · 8 h

🤩 Stunning moment from the Tour de France last stage. 🤩 Un moment magique de la dernière étape du Tour de France. #TDF2025

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · 9 h

“…I will ride, as far as land will let me, by your side” 💛🚴🏻‍♀️💨 #Shakespeare‘s Richard II #TDF2025 🎨Costume Sketch for Henry Irving’s 1898 planned production of #RichardII by #EdwinAustinAbbey And amazing image📸! A.S.O. / Ashley & Jered Gruber ☁️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🤍

TTour de France™@LeTour · Jul 26

PIC OF THE DAY By @century21fr #TDFF2025 📸 A.S.O. / Ashley & Jered Gruber

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 25

“I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so…” #SamuelTaylorColeridge on #Shakespeare 🎨Coleridge by #DanielMaclise |& #Hamlet with the skull of Yorick by #WalterStanleyPaget💀 👇🏻🔥🌊✨💚💙🤍

CClay Franklin Johnson@ClayFJohnson · Jul 25

The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch’s oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge died #OTD in 1834. Gustave Doré illustrates the “death-fires”, possibly St. Elmo’s Fire (witch’s fire) or the phosphorescence of organic decay.

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 24

“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet” 🌺 #Shakespeare’s Juliet #RomeoAndJuliet 🎨Juliet by #JWWaterhouse❤️ Summer Flowers #JacquesLaurentAgasse💐

VGrainger's tweet image. “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet” 🌺 #Shakespeare’s Juliet #RomeoAndJuliet

🎨Juliet by #JWWaterhouse❤️
Summer Flowers #JacquesLaurentAgasse💐

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 23

“The Prince of Darkness is a gentleman”🖤 #Shakespeare’s Edgar #KingLear #OzzyOsbourne🫡🫶🏻🕯 📷 by #MartynGoodacre 1997 🎨The Black Sabbath Bench & Bridge with a view of the canal at Broad Street Birmingham💕 by #PaulaGabb @Paula_Artist6 2022

NNo Context Brits@NoContextBrits · Jul 22

Ozzy Osbourne meeting his lifelong idol, Paul McCartney in 2001.

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 21

“This many summers in a sea of glory..” 🌊 #Shakespeare’s #AllIsTrue🤍 🎨Mother and Child by the Sea at Pouldu #MauriceDenis 1900 & On the Brittany Coast by #ChildeHassam 1890 #MelvilleMonday🐳🫶🏻⚓️

VGrainger's tweet image. “This many summers in a sea of glory..” 🌊 #Shakespeare’s #AllIsTrue🤍

🎨Mother and Child by the Sea at Pouldu #MauriceDenis 1900 &amp; On the Brittany Coast by #ChildeHassam 1890
#MelvilleMonday🐳🫶🏻⚓️

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 20

“It was a breath of wind, that, twisting your great hair, Brought strange rumours to your dreaming mind…” 🌬‘Ophelia’ by #Rimbaud 🎨Ophelia #ConstantMontald 1893🦢 #Shakespeare🤍

VGrainger's tweet image. “It was a breath of wind, that, twisting your great hair, Brought strange rumours to your dreaming mind…” 🌬‘Ophelia’ by #Rimbaud

🎨Ophelia #ConstantMontald 1893🦢 #Shakespeare🤍

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 19

“thou art a summer bird, Which ever in the haunch of winter sings The lifting up of day”💛☀️ #Shakespeare’s King Henry #HenryIVPart2 🎨Concert of Birds🦜 #JanVanKesselTheElder

VGrainger's tweet image. “thou art a summer bird,
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings
The lifting up of day”💛☀️
#Shakespeare’s King Henry #HenryIVPart2

🎨Concert of Birds🦜 #JanVanKesselTheElder

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 18

🎨Juliet & her Nurse #JMWTurner 1836 #Turner’s take on #Shakespeare’s #RomeoAndJuliet 👀Spot Juliet & Nurse "perched, like sparrows on a house-top", on a balcony in Venice at dusk💛 &👇✍️ @SaveAsWriters writing competition celebrating #Turner250⚡️

SSaveAs Writers@SaveAsWriters · Jun 30

Aug 31-deadline for entries to our International Writing Competition. Theme: 'facing the storm' is in tribute to J M W Turner painter of light #Turner250 Here's Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) @TateGallery More bit.ly/3TiUEko #fiction #poetry

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 15

“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.” #IrisMurdoch The Sea The Sea🌊🌊 🎨#TatsuroKiuchi Folio Society 2010 And on her “devotion to #Shakespeare’s genius”irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2024/11/03/sib…

VGrainger's tweet image. “Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.” #IrisMurdoch The Sea The Sea🌊🌊

🎨#TatsuroKiuchi Folio Society 2010

And on her “devotion to #Shakespeare’s genius”irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2024/11/03/sib…

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 13

“When we have march'd our rackets to these balls/ We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set!”🎾🏆 #HenryV 🎨Tennis Player by #SaraHayward & Still Life of Strawberries with Tea-cup #Renoir☕️ #Wimbledon #ShakespeareSunday

WWimbledon@Wimbledon · Jul 13

Aura. #Wimbledon

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 12

🎨’Tennis balls, my Liege’ 🐕! by the fantastic #OpheliaRedpath🤍 EXETER: “Tennis-balls, my Liege” #HENRYV: “When we have march'd our rackets to these balls/ We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set!”🎾 #WimbledonFinal #Shakespeare🏆🍓

VGrainger's tweet image. 🎨’Tennis balls, my Liege’ 🐕! by the fantastic #OpheliaRedpath🤍

EXETER: “Tennis-balls, my Liege”
#HENRYV: “When we have march'd our rackets to these balls/ We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set!”🎾

#WimbledonFinal #Shakespeare🏆🍓

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 11

“Have a very good reason for everything you do”🤍 #LaurenceOlivier🎭🕯 🎨#Dalí's Portrait of Olivier as #Shakespeare’s literally two-faced🎭 #RichardIII & sketching it at Shepperton Studios 1955👨🏻‍🎨!📷Keystone-France/Getty Images

VGrainger's tweet image. “Have a very good reason for everything you do”🤍 #LaurenceOlivier🎭🕯

🎨#Dalí's Portrait of Olivier as #Shakespeare’s literally two-faced🎭 #RichardIII &amp; sketching it at Shepperton Studios 1955👨🏻‍🎨!📷Keystone-France/Getty Images

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 9

🎨 To Be Or Not To Be 🐒 by #JeanMarieGitard aka Mr Strange To Be. Definitely 🤍 “What I do allows me to find what I am looking for” ~ Jean-Marie Gitard💫 #Hamlet

VGrainger's tweet image. 🎨 To Be Or Not To Be 🐒
by #JeanMarieGitard aka Mr Strange

To Be. Definitely 🤍

“What I do allows me to find what I am looking for” ~ Jean-Marie Gitard💫 #Hamlet

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 8

#TourDeFrance in #Rouen🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️👏🏻🇫🇷 “Will this gear ne’er be mended?” #Shakespeare’s Pandarus #TroilusAndCressida 🎨The Cyclists by #DavidAlanRedpathMichie💚!| & Rouen Cathedral, Harmony in Blue & Gold #Monet⛪️💙💛

VGrainger's tweet image. #TourDeFrance in #Rouen🚴‍♀️🚴🚴‍♂️👏🏻🇫🇷
“Will this gear ne’er be mended?”
#Shakespeare’s Pandarus #TroilusAndCressida

🎨The Cyclists by #DavidAlanRedpathMichie💚!| &amp; Rouen Cathedral, Harmony in Blue &amp; Gold #Monet⛪️💙💛

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 7

“Very like a whale”☁️ #Shakespeare’s Polonius #Hamlet 🎨The delightful ‘Very Like a Whale’ by #BarbaraFriedman 2021💕 for #MelvilleMonday🐳🫶🏻🌊

VGrainger's tweet image. “Very like a whale”☁️
#Shakespeare’s Polonius #Hamlet

🎨The delightful ‘Very Like a Whale’ by #BarbaraFriedman 2021💕 for #MelvilleMonday🐳🫶🏻🌊

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Victoria Grainger@VGrainger · Jul 6

“I read #Shakespeare’s #JuliusCaesar at the age of 10 & I think that it really set the direction of my future life & my interests; everything that I myself would try to be as a writer” #HilaryMantel🌹 🎨Antony's Oration Caesar's Funeral #GeorgeEdwardRobertson| #NickLord portrait

VGrainger's tweet image. “I read #Shakespeare’s #JuliusCaesar at the age of 10 &amp; I think that it really set the direction of my future life &amp; my interests; everything that I myself would try to be as a writer” #HilaryMantel🌹

🎨Antony's Oration Caesar's Funeral #GeorgeEdwardRobertson| #NickLord portrait

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