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  Gustave Moreau: The Fables A5 Lined Journal

  £10.95 Buy Moreau’s watercolours of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were created between 1879 and 1885 for the art collector Antony Roux and their stylistic range encompasses historicism and the picturesque, orientalist fantasies and near-abstract chromatic experiments. They were exhibited to great acclaim in Paris in the 1880s and in London in 1886, where critics compared the artist to Edward Burne-Jones. One critic commented on Moreau’s ‘ keen apprehension of the weird.’ There were originally 64 works in the series, which was subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), but nearly half were lost during the Nazi era. The surviving works have not been exhibited since 1906 and they have only ever been published in black and white. This book is the first to reproduce them in colour – many shown actual size. Created at the height of the French 19th-century revival of watercolour, the variety of subject matter and technique, their colouristic effects and the sophistication of Moreau’s storytelling, will be a revelation to readers. Preparatory drawings for the Fables, including animal studies made from life in the Jardin des Plantes demonstrate the wide-ranging research that informed Moreau’s visions. Prints after Moreau’s Fables by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) translate the jewel-like colours into monochrome in some of the most innovative etchings of the age, while the most delicate effects of the watercolours were also transformed into vitreous enamels. In-depth accounts of each watercolour, explaining the story and exploring Moreau’s response to it. The introduction will place the series in the long history of illustrations of La Fontaine’s canonical work, whose sources include Aesop’s fables and traditional European and Asian tales, as well as considering Moreau in the context of his own, turbulent, times.
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  Mimi My Reward Chart

  £7.95 Buy Mimi is a Rothschild Mynah (Leucopsar rothschildi), discovered in Bali in 1911 by avian expert Dr Erwin Stresemann. He named it after his friend, the naturalist Walter Rothschild, who founded his own museum of natural history at Tring, which is still open to the public. Rothschild Mynahs are critically endangered (there are more giant pandas in the wild), but conservation projects, like the one run at Waddesdon Aviary, help to preserve this rare and beautiful bird.
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  Botanical Print Memo Block

  £9.95 Buy Leather wallcoverings were produced principally in the Low Countries from the late 16th century onwards, copying an Islamic tradition with origins in Moorish Spain. Richly decorated, the leather is stamped to create designs, dyed and then gilded. The design used on this range has been adapted from the leather wallcovering in the Bachelors’ Wing.
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  Botanical Print Pen Pot Hexagonal

  £9.95 Buy Leather wallcoverings were produced principally in the Low Countries from the late 16th century onwards, copying an Islamic tradition with origins in Moorish Spain. Richly decorated, the leather is stamped to create designs, dyed and then gilded. The design used on this range has been adapted from the leather wallcovering in the Bachelors’ Wing.
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  Flett Bertram Notecard Wallet

  £5.50 Buy Waddesdon’s famous collection of porcelain has inspired historians, manufacturers and artists for decades. Inspired by the Sèvres colours and floral motifs, Flett Bertram has created these exclusive designs. Flett is a graduate of Embroidery at the London College of Fashion. Now working in Paris for haute couture houses, she ensures old passementerie is kept alive. Passementerie is the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings of braided metallic cords, embroidery, coloured silk or beads and used as embellishment on furnishings. This technique is used extensively in Waddesdon.
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  Sèvres Porcelain Fridge Magnet Set of 8

  £6.50 Buy Waddesdon holds a renowned collection of Sèvres porcelain including a 235 piece dinner and dessert service, ordered by Marie-Antoinette in 1781 and “bleu celeste”, specially designed for Louis XV. Baron Edmond de Rothschild commissioned watercolours of designs for Sèvres dinner service plates in the 1880s from Madam Zeppenfeld. She copied the plate designs from an album preserved in the Sèvres archives, dating from the 1780's.
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  Pompadour Notebook

  £11.95 Buy This fine portrait has not been attributed to a particular artist, but it demonstrates knowledge of several portraits, including those by François Boucher (1703-1770). These portraits were central to Pomadour’s self-presentation, carefully designed to captivate the King. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (1721-1764), Marquise de Pompadour, was the acknowledged mistress – ‘maîtresse-en-titre’ – of King Louis XV from 1745 until her death.
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  Portraits Notecard Wallet

  £6.50 Buy Portraits of real people as gods, goddesses or personifications of Seasons or Virtues were common in the 18th century. The French artist Jean-Marc Nattier painted this unknown woman as a River Goddess in around 1738. Thomas Gainsborough used characteristically brilliant brushwork in this portrait of Frances Browne, Mrs John Douglas, painted in 1783-1784 and included in his first private exhibition. Little is known about the sitter.