Catherine Curzonさんのイラストまとめ

Heinrich Hoffmann, the man behind the frankly terrifying Shockheaded Peter, was born #onthisday in 1809. And a million childhood nightmares began…

Harriet Martineau, sociologist, was born #onthisday in 1802. She became "a great Lion in London, much patronized by Ld. Brougham who has set her to write stories on the poor Laws”. #gloriousGeorgians

James Francis Edward Stuart, known to some as The Old Pretender, was born #onthisday in 1688. When George I was crowned Stuart lamented, "we have beheld a foreign family, aliens to our country, distant in blood, and strangers even to our language, ascend the throne.” #royal

When Lady Coventry (l) called Kitty Fisher (r) impertinent for carrying on with her husband, Lord Coventry, Kitty said she would "accept this insult because Maria was socially superior, but she was going to marry a Lord herself just to be able to answer back." #gloriousGeorgians

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was born #onthisday in 1660. The hugely influential duchess was one of the most powerful women of her age and a close friend of Queen Anne. #royal #gloriousGeorgians

“It’s called fashion. Look it up.” Fashionista Beau Brummell laces the gargantuan Prince Regent into his stays in “1812 or Regency à la Mode”, by William Heath. #gloriousGeorgians via The Met.

Nature is healing and flying penises are being spotted in the wild once more. German #gloriousGeorgians snuffbox, via Bonhams.

Phoebe Hessel, "the Stepney Amazon", served in the British Army in disguise as a man. She was sent packing when her gender was revealed after she was sentenced to be lashed. She lived to the age of 108 and was granted a pension by the Regent for her service! #GloriousGeorgians

Giuseppe Bonito's Il Femminiello (1740/1760) is the only known c.18th depiction of an Italian femminiello, which translates as “little female-men". Femminielli were believed to bring good luck and were often asked to bless newborns. #GloriousGeorgians from Portland Art Museum.