Philippe Halbert, PhDさんのイラストまとめ

18th-century hair is really at its best when channeling Alien vs. Predator. This is Henry Fuseli's wife, Sophia Rawlins Fuseli, in 1790 and 1799. Also the 1790s...wild.

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@IsabellaRosner This is Susanna Truax, from New York and painted there in 1730. Where my mind first went.

The Slave Trade (a 1788 poem attrib. to Morland's friend William Collins) begins “Suppose by tempest's rage, on Afric's shore, your ship is driv'n with all her pallid crew, what help from Blacks! – dare you their aid implore? Will they forget their foes, and save them too?”

Of course, Louis XV's Polish consort was a devout Catholic. She is nonetheless dressed as a bourgeoise rather than a queen in her portrait by Nattier, exhibited at the 1748 Paris Salon. Known for her piety and dignified reserve, she can be seen turning the pages of an open Bible.

En voilà bien assé car je t’annuirès. Adieu mon très chere fils. [...] Consserve moy ta santé. Donne moy de tes nouvelle et sois bien perssuadé que je suis pour la vie ta tandre mère. ♥️

Madame Bégon à son gendre en Louisiane
La Rochelle, le 18 août 1752
#Herstory

Les recrue qu’on y a envoyé en Canada on fournie beaucoup de [canailleries]. On dit qu’on y parle que de vol et d’assassin. #EarlyCanada

J’ay eu beaucoup de lètre [du Canada]. [...] Il y a eu beaucoup de mort et de mariage. [...] [Marguerite Legardeur de Saint-Pierre] est morte subitement le mardy gras, les carte a la main. #EarlyCanada

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John Greenwood’s sensitive circa 1750 double portrait of Salem sitters Abigail Flint Holloway Gerrish (circa 1680-1750) and her granddaughter Abigail Gerrish (1743-1822). Now at @PeabodyEssex. #VastEarlyAmerica #AmericanArt

Portrait of a Virginia gentry girl, said to be a member of the Ludwell family, attributed to Charles Bridges and painted in Virginia between 1735 and 1744, now @ColonialWmsburg. The canvas survives in its original silvered frame. #VastEarlyAmerica #Americanart