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I can’t even remember why I started looking at vintage @bovril_official adverts but I’ve enjoyed myself very much
The real question is, are we more convinced by the glamorous ladies or the emotionally manipulative hunks of beef
Just something lovely and French to look at: an amateur drawing presented to one of Marie Antoinette's chambermaids by an admirer in 1790
More info here > https://t.co/4qshhqvClh
Horace Mann here not even *trying* to pretend he was having a good time sitting for his portrait
If there's one thing I learned today, it's that the Marquise d'Argence Did Not Fuck About when it came to big bows 🎀
🎨 Portrait by Nattier, 1744 https://t.co/y8ta3QuO9w
My in-depth review of the marvellous new Hogarth exhibition at Tate Britain
… it’s full of good boys 🐾
If, like me, you have nowhere better to be, I recommend browsing the volumes of this 1770s book of animals
There is ... a lot going on
https://t.co/lk7gyQs92G
Good evening twitter, may it find you all as inexplicably happy as this 18th-century sea-lion 🦭
I had TOTALLY forgotten about that Fishlove campaign where a load of celebrities posed naked with sea creatures 🐟🐡🐙
(thank you for the reminder, @Sehmmmmmm)
@greg_jenner @MirandaKaufmann Ooh. 'Running Away with an Heiress' leaps to mind! (1804)
https://t.co/Ru0d9HWqnY
Hello new followers!
If you'd like more proof that the 18th century is full of daring, boundary-pushing society beauties, here is one depiction of royal lady-in-waiting Elizabeth Chudleigh rocking up to a masquerade in 1749 👀
https://t.co/ajSMatdy1o