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This shop probably wouldn’t survive a #BlackFriday event! Pellat & Green’s London #glassware shop features displays of lead-crystal glassware, which served as symbols of refinement & wealth to the elite.
#HECAA #ArtHistory #18thCentury #19thCentury #print #DecorativeArts
Check out Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, an online exhibit from Yale University Library, curated by Hazel V. Carby and Heather Vermeulen!
#HECAA #ArtHistory #18thCentury #MuseumsUnlocked
Check it out here: https://t.co/8HT0ah9JwF
John Singleton Copley painted this portrait of John Adams in London in 1783 after he oversaw the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War & secured America’s independence (@harvartmuseums). 1/
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The Bakemono zukushi, or #Monster Scroll, is a #Japanese painted scroll from the #EdoPeriod. It has an array of #yokai from Japanese folklore, mysterious creatures that appear at twilight in transitional spaces like thresholds or crossroads. 1/
#HECAA #18thCentury #19thCentury
Two trompe l’oeil canvases on the upper portion show other events from the day. Paintings of mythological scenes & tapestries hang from the city walls while numerous spectators look on, all engaged in their own individual scenes. 2/2
#ColonialArt #LatinAmerica #Peru #Bolivia