Patricia Fergusonさんのイラストまとめ

John Trotter (d.1833) made a fortune supplying the army in the #napoleonicwars from his Soho Square warehouse & later turned it into a bazaar renting stalls to women selling crafts & plants. Here's his Derby dessert service, c1825, his name in gold is on each piece @britishmuseum

F is for Furloughed, so tweets from this account will be suspended until further notice. This figure is of a Spinstress or spinner, Meissen, c. 1750@ @V_and_A; and Industry and Idleness, Hogarth, 1747, @metmuseum

Hope this 1828 unpublished description of Sophie Wilson's China Room at Ledstone, Yorkshire, finds a good home! https://t.co/SenYZv1YHD

If your institution buys it let us know!

"A Well Known Tea Table Altercation", 1792, engraved for the Carlton House Magazine. Perhaps the Prince of Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert, just saying! Above them the Duke of York, whose wife refused to meet Mrs F*** causing coolness between the brothers. @britishmuseum

Milk maid in St James's Park, London, with the Horseguards Parade Clock Tower in the distance, thank you @GeorgeVertue for the identification! Stipple engraving, after James Northcote, c. 1820. Now the artist would need to include @TheLondonEye

@Unefleurunjour @BMAGcurators @BM_AG And here is a Milk Maid, fifty years later, selling milk in a park in London(?) Does anyone recognize the church tower? Stipple and etching by James Northcote, c. 1820s.
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If only they all came with a backstory! Bow porcelain mug painted by John de Lanauze for his #mother in 1770! After J. E. Nilsson @britishmuseum

What's a #Munbangdo - a trompe l'oeil folding screen depicting books and things, part of Korean Court Culture, full house for talk by @EleanorSHyunBM #OrientalCeramicSociety This one from #ClevelandMuseumofArt

This #Rowlandson watercolour 1811 @MuseumofLondon in @Maddypelling @PaulMellonCentr talk, hints at Duchess of Portland's collection display, 1793 -is it a satire of her son, MP, 3rd Duke of Portland [3rd from left] dressed as his mother? The Bulstrode Siren, 1803 @Britishmuseum

C is for the Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory and a pair of vases given to @britishmuseum in 1763, this one is painted with the Death of Cleopatra, after J-B-M Pierre @metmuseum was made the year before.