Catherine Meyrick
@cameyrick1
Australian writer of romantic #HistFic. WIP (is taking forever) set in Melbourne 1914-1919. Likes Genealogy, Gardening & Cats. INANE DMs WILL BE IGNORED!
‘A captivating novel ... beautifully and intelligently told, filled with wonderfully rich period detail and complex characters.’ #HistoricalFiction #Elizabethan #LoveStory books2read.com/ForsakingAllOt…
Not a re-enactment; not a movie scene, this is WWI war-photography at its most immediate. I've cleaned-up this remarkable auctochrome by Stéphane Pessat, taken 110 years ago on Saturday 24th July 1915. It depicts French soldiers from the 98th battalion at an artillery…
Ok, here’s an unusual post. There was no wind, and all these starlings were lined up chattering away, so stuck my camera on the tripod and filmed. 😄
The setting of the winter sun 117 years ago - a rare colour view through the amber haze of sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this beautiful, almost melancholic, autochrome plate, taken by Julian Gérardin in Tomblaine, NE France. It is original colour (not…
US artist Frederick Judd Waugh was primarily a marine artist ~ even designing war-time ship camouflage ~ but he shows his versatility in this still life with bottles, aka Rum Row (1922)
The golden sunlight in this autochrome is absolutely spectacular! I have cleaned up this remarkable photograph of three ladies of Lyon, picking fruit during the Golden Hour, 115 years ago. It was taken by Professor Fernand Arloing in 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.
Here's a treat for fans of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Trans-Antarctic Expedition on The Endurance. This is a brand new clean-up of a rare colour paget plate, showing the frozen rigging of the Endurance in 1915, shortly before the ship sank beneath the ice. It was taken in…
I want to give @KathleenHarrym1 a huge big THANK YOU for her help in designing my Amazon A+ images. Kathleen is incredibly talented and a joy to work with. I look forward to working with her again soon. 😊🐾🐾#BooksWorthReading #bookstoread #marketing bit.ly/FatDogs5
A pair of 2,000 year-old Roman earrings. Gold and glass. A simple yet stylish design with timeless appeal! 🤩 📷 Art Institute of Chicago artic.edu/artworks/593/p… #Archaeology
Splendid 2,400-year-old Macedonian gold funerary wreath, repatriated by Getty Museum back to Greece after suspicions that it had been looted from a royal tomb. Its delicate blue enamel decorations (detail at R) are similar to plants that still grow profusely in northern Greece
British photographer Grace Robertson, Pub Outing, 1952 #womensart
'Surfers cloudy sky' by UK painter Emma Haworth #WomensArt
OED #WordOfTheDay: saucery, n. The group of servants responsible for the preparation of sauces in a large or royal household. View the entry: oxford.ly/4nG5YVY
Good Day! Bathing by Dame Laura Knight RA RWA Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)
The Kingmoor Ring. An Anglo-Saxon gold finger-ring engraved with runes, thought to be a magical inscription. 8th-10th century AD. Found by a man fixing a fence near Kingmoor, north of Carlisle, in the early 1800s. 📷 British Museum britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… #Archaeology
“Utterly convincing from the explosive beginning to the spectacular climax “I can't get enough of this series. I would follow the characters to the end of their days “Each volume is a totally singular narrative, yet brilliantly woven ow.ly/UyIIC #series #thrillers