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Lukas Large
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Natural Science Curator. Natural History, particularly fungi, Museums, Heritage & Art www.flickr.com/photos/lukaslarge/
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#TurtleTuesday🐢: Tureen in the form of a sea turtle probably Birmingham, England, c.1830 Fused silver plate, L 16½ in (419 mm) x W 17¼ in (235 mm) x H 9¾ in (248 mm) On display at Winterthur’s Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens 96.4.54

photo of the silver sea turtle tureen and its label on display at museum
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Fused, plated tureen in the form of a sea turtle, probably Birmingham,
England, about 1830
96.4.54
Gift of Margaret Dorrance Strawbridge Foundation II
One of four presently known, this tureen's form demonstrates the popularity of green turtle soup, although by no means were the contents of the tureen restricted. The use of silver plate for such a grandiose form is unusual; most metal tureens were made of silver.”
photo of pp.46-7 of the Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens catalog (reference info on the sea turtle soup tureen)
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Yeah, that's a good point. Is there any book where her fungi paintings are nicely reproduced? 'a Victorian naturalist' could be better

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I think I’m done. ‘So Mushroom’ - illustrated with Karisma colour pencils, Unipin fineliners & Sakura Gelly Roll. I will be selling prints of this… it’s in season! #mushroomart#MushroomMonday#FungiFriends 🍄📷

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I'm doing one of those chatty nights - talking to Nicholas P. Money about 'Molds, Mushrooms & Medicines' - on Wednesday 16 October in Brighton, UK, for BRIGHTHINK. ▶️https://www.brighthink.org/in-conversation/moulds-mushrooms-medicine

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🚨Breaking: Just seven out of 87 fossil fuel companies operating in the North Sea will invest anything in renewable energy by 2030, according to Uplift:

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Her illustrations became fairly well known after 1967 when the 'wayside and woodland' fungi book was published featuring a number of her paintings but that book didn't seem to sell well and didn't become a widely used field guide

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I've written a post about things to read, if you're interested in the history of mycological illustration. It's mainly just for the one person that I know definitely is interested in this. But who knows, maybe there are more of us? #MycoBookClub#HistSci#SciArtopen.substack.com/pub/mycobook...

Text reads "So, you're interested in the history of mycological illustration" against a background of a weird old illustration of human-like figures in fungus form.
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I think you're right with Golden, Butter Waxcaps tends to have a translucent central 'eye'

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