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		<title>Douce&#8217;s dream</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/05/08/douces-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I referred to Douce&#8217;s accounts of his dreams in his Book of Coincidences. In an undated entry probably written in 1817, Douce explained: I had a strange dream about eating a cross-bow as a broiled fish. &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/05/08/douces-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amateur drawings</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/04/28/amateur-drawings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among Douce&#8217;s drawings in the Ashmolean there are many by amateurs like Francis Cohen (1788-1861). In 1823, Cohen changed his name to Palgrave and married one of Dawson Turner&#8217;s daughters, Elizabeth. Douce and Cohen became close friends and they met &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/04/28/amateur-drawings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Interior design</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/04/08/interior-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The drawing below was made by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, an artist renown, among many other things, for getting his props right: Like other history painters working in the early decades of the nineteenth century, Ingres would have appreciated Douce&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/04/08/interior-design/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grinding fools</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/03/23/grinding-fools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of Douce&#8217;s prints of fools are emblems from Dutch and German books, like the etching below: The scene is set in a watermill, where an elegantly dressed man is startled at the sight of batches of little fools being &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/03/23/grinding-fools/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We are five</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/03/06/we-are-five/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just started cataloguing Douce&#8217;s prints of fools -the engraving below belongs to the popular type depicting a group of foolish figures that numbers one fewer than the title, so that the viewer makes up the total: On the &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/03/06/we-are-five/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Juggernaut Debt</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/22/the-juggernaut-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1832, The Ballot published a series of &#8220;Sketches in Church and State&#8221;. The proofs for the anonymous wood-engravings can be found among the satirical prints that the British Museum purchased from the estate of Douce&#8217;s friend Edward Hawkins. As &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/22/the-juggernaut-debt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>At Rochester Cathedral</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/14/at-rochester-cathedral/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douce counted among his friends not only Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), but also two of his sons, Charles Alfred and Robert. Many works by the former, who was historical draughtsman to the Society of Antiquaries, are kept with Douce&#8217;s topographical prints. &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/14/at-rochester-cathedral/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bonasone in red</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/08/bonasone-in-red/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over fifty prints by Giulio Bonasone from Douce&#8217;s collection were transferred to the Ashmolean in 1863. At the time, they were integrated in the main sequence and they can now be found under the printmaker&#8217;s name. The print below, however, &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/08/bonasone-in-red/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A peep at the balloon</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/03/a-peep-at-the-balloon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, 7 July 1810, the Oxford-born chemist James Sadler (1753-1828) took part in the celebrations of the installation of the new Chancellor of the University by ascending in a balloon from Merton fields with his fourteen-year-old son, Windham. The &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/02/03/a-peep-at-the-balloon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parlour game</title>
		<link>http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/01/25/parlour-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mercedes-c</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonnets are everywhere due to the bicentenary of Pride and Prejudice*. This blog could not resist the temptation to join in, especially when the said article of apparel features so prominently in Douce&#8217;s folders of costumes, where the fashion plate &#8230; <a href="http://www.ashmolean.org/ashwpress/douceblog/2013/01/25/parlour-game/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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