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Excellent online talk by @jmosscurator @TheFanMuseum about Huguenot fan-makers active in 17th & 18th century London and exciting mapping project recording 300 workers, including the #chassereau family. @Huguenots_E1 @huguenotmuseum @HuguenotLibrary
C is for Cheese, well #Parmesan, to be exact! From @metmuseum Capodimonte cheese seller with a wheel of it, Italy, c. 1755, and in London, you could buy it from Mrs Holt's on the Strand, along with some Genoese #silk, Trade card after Hogarth, engr. c. 1794 by Anna Maria Ireland
B is for Beer. Served in a creamware mug, Staffordshire, c.1765, @V_and_A; and for its benefits see an engraving Beer Street, Hogarth, 1751, @royalacademy but also @V_and_A Thanks @fi_lor #beer
Jane Vigor painted by Joseph Highmore, 1744 & her needlework,1730, befriended Anna, Tzarina of Russia, through #stitchcraft Great tour #basicinstincts @FoundlingMuseum with @Jacriding closes 7.1.18
Vases @ClandonParkNT, painted by Le Guay made by Guérhard & Dihl, Paris, c1800, cited by Diana Davis talk on @V_and_A vase @The_FPSLondon
Conference: Home Comforts: Physical and Emotional Meanings of Home in Europe 1650-1900 Manchester 5&6 October 2017 https://t.co/xkJKEmRQvs
Two French biscuit (unglazed) figures @BlicklingNT made to decorate the centre of the dessert table (surtout) adapted as chimney ornaments
Here is another model, known as a 'Gondola' cup with figure personifying Spring, French, Fontainebleau, c1620-5. Probably after metal ware
It was a dark and stormy night... Dihl and Guerhard, Paris, 1797-1800 @metmuseum