Catherine Curzonさんのイラストまとめ

Turner’s evocative work, The Battle of Trafalgar, for #TrafalgarDay. This was Turner’s only work by royal command and he spent nearly two weeks at St James’s making unpaid edits to suit the Admiralty. He considered that those edits ruined the painting. #art #gloriousGeorgians

Maria Branwell, mother of the Brontës, died #onthisday in 1821. Maria was just 28 when she died. #GloriousGeorgians

Grinling Gibbons died #onthisday in 1721. Walpole wrote of this master wood carver, "[Only Gibbons] gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.” #gloriousGeorgians

"I don't wear wigs, this is my hair."

@CamJBradbury Then I want to see this next time she steps out.

The first women's #cricket match took place #onthisday in 1745, when the villages of Bramley and Hambledon met. Hambledon claimed the victory and The Mercury reported that, "The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game." #gloriousGeorgians

Konstancja Rzewuska, a keen Polish amateur artist. A touch of the Debbie McGee, I think!

The Cherub Harvesters by François Boucher, who died #onthisday in 1770. I find them just a little bit terrifying, to be honest. If I saw them, I wouldn’t hang around. #gloriousgeorgians

Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel with her sons, by Anna Rosina de Gasc. They don't wear wigs, this is their hair. Honest.

Christ on the Sea of Galilee by Delacroix, who was born #onthisday in 1798.