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I can’t have a series on naughtiness in #C18th gardens without mentioning Fragonard’s “The Swing” c1767. This one is so good I’ll make it a 🧵. (1/4)
@WallaceMuseum
#ArtLovers
Art history teaches us that C18th gardens ran amuck with virile young men & with Cupids. This elderly hubs should’ve remembered that before determining to nap in the middle of an al fresco smooch session with his pretty young wife. Tsk, tsk.
Jean-Frederic Schall
#ArtLovers
I completed an edited manuscript of my latest #RegencyRomance on #JaneAusten’s birthday!! To you, Jane, you absolute queen! 🎉🎂 You’ve been a joyful delight to me for thirty years. Even during the darkest times of my life, you were there, providing warmth, comfort, & a smile.🥰
It’s our first big ❄️ in Toronto, so when the hubs awakens, I’ll pop into my swan sled and let him skate me around, like in this 1755 oil by 🇫🇷Boucher, painted for Madame de Pompadour, King’s Louis XV’s official chief mistress. (A court position indeed.)
@frickcollection
Selfie at my writing desk this morning, as I wait for #FridayNightFrills with @18thCent_Kitty, who highlights the best of 18th-century frills and flounces. Time travel to a century that knew how to appreciate white hair, a shapely masculine leg, and wide hips on ladies.
‘Tis Friday, the day when my 18th-century friends and I slip flounced silk gowns over our panniers and corsets, secure clocked stockings with ribboned garters, slide into embroidered shoes clasped with diamond buckles, and gather to watch #FridayNightFrills with @18thCent_Kitty
I dressed in this little number to slip into my favourite century for #FridayNightFrills with @18thCent_Kitty. My Twitter ❤️ing finger is prepared to tap, and I’ve stored up a week’s worth of yearning sighs. Ready when you are, my dear Lady Kitty!
Yes, I’m already seated in a theatre box with my dear friend Lady Tarleton awaiting #FridayNightFrills with the incomparable @18thCent_Kitty.
@LadyTarleton, what *is* that young gentleman suggesting by presenting you with such a gift?