{"id":135,"date":"2026-03-01T16:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=135"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:07:38","slug":"pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The main image I use for the cover of The Spy and The Urchin and for the banner of this web site, is by Claude de Jongh, (View of London Bridge) and comes courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art (Paul Mellon Fund, B2005.4)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmOld-london-bridge-de-jongh-1630-1024x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmOld-london-bridge-de-jongh-1630-1024x452.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmOld-london-bridge-de-jongh-1630-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmOld-london-bridge-de-jongh-1630-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmOld-london-bridge-de-jongh-1630-1536x678.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SmOld-london-bridge-de-jongh-1630-2048x904.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason I\u2019m using this image rather than, say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/item\/O134555\/view-of-old-london-bridge-oil-painting-jongh-claude-de\">https:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/item\/O134555\/view-of-old-london-bridge-oil-painting-jongh-claude-de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/visit\/places\/kenwood\/history-stories-kenwood\/old-london-bridge\">https:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/visit\/places\/kenwood\/history-stories-kenwood\/old-london-bridge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is copyright or, rather, my unwillingness to fight these museums over copyright \u2013 more on this another time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acquiring the right to use a picture in a \u2018commercial\u2019 work is a tricky task and one that has had an airing on bluesky (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/\">bsky.app<\/a>) \u2013 a social media app for those looking for an alternative to single letter social media \u2013 in the last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Laura Sangha (@lsangha.bsky.social) asked for sources of public domain images, specifically for #EarlyModern period and if you follow the replies there are some great resources out there, though with a bias towards academic use. Happy image hunting everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main image I use for the cover of The Spy and The Urchin and for the banner of this web site, is by Claude de Jongh, (View of London Bridge) and comes courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art (Paul Mellon Fund, B2005.4) The reason I\u2019m using this image rather than, say, https:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/item\/O134555\/view-of-old-london-bridge-oil-painting-jongh-claude-de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}