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Actual footage of #pubsreopening... stay safe! Deadly Lively by Thomas Rowlandson, via the British Museum. #gloriousgeorgians
Rhoda Delaval, artist, was born #onthisday in 1725. Delaval studied art with Arthur Pond and made her London home at 11 Downing Street. #gloriousgeorgians #art
A fashion mishap for these intrepid #gloriousGeorgians! Chemise a la rain. Or an excellent shift for bad weather!!!, 1805, via the British Museum.
Dr. Samuel Phillips Eady, a quack specialist in sexual health, certainly seems to get on well with his glamorous patients! "The Commercial Dandy and his sleeping partners", by George Cruikshank, 1821. #GloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection.
Skittles and beer for some #gloriousGeorgians gals - and not a chap in sight! Miss Tipapin Going for All Nine, by John Collet, 1779, via the British Musuem.
Sally Sanford Perit is not here for your nonsense. Painted at 30 years old by Reuben Moulthrop, 1790, courtesy of the Met.
The Ruined Girl, 1781, mourns her broken heart. Poor lamb!
"Oh! fatal Day when to my Virtues wrong,
I fondly listen’d to his flattering Tongue,
But oh! more fatal Moment when he gain’d,
That vile Consent which all my Glory staind."
#gloriousGeorgians from the British Museum.
On a hot day like today, throw on your red shoes and recline beside a river! Musidora or Summer Evening, 1784. #gloriousGeorgians via the British Museum.
On a hot summer day, the #gloriousGeorgians let it all hang out... Intrepid bathers and dirty old men have been the stuff of seaside scenes for centuries! Summer amusement at Margate, or a peep at the mermaids, 1813, Thomas Rowlandson. Via the British Museum.
Actual footage of pubs reopening... The Pantheon in Oxford Street, by Edwards, 1773. #gloriousGeorgians via the British Museum.