Philippe Halbert, PhDさんのイラストまとめ

Hannah Gilbert (1718-1804) of Middletown, Connecticut, married to Joseph Wright (1705-1775) in 1739 and painted by Ralph Earl in 1792 as a widow. @americanart #vastearlyamerica #americanart #atsaam

Émilie du Châtelet as today's Google doodle is 🔥

Referred to in French as mouchoirs (and tignons in Louisiana creole, these lengths of lightweight cotton were tied or knotted around the head in myriad ways. #americanart

If her father's business explains the consumption of Indian plaid textiles in 1790s Philadelphia, the date of Mrs. Clymer's portrait also suggests the sartorial influence of Saint-Domingue refugees who flooded the city in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. #vastearlyamerica

Morris and Jay may have been married to revolutionaries, but the latter could not hide her admiration for Marie-Antoinette. In the same letter, she declared Louis XVI's Austrian consort “so handsome & her manners are so engaging, that almost forgetful of republican principles

Sarah Livingston Jay wrote to Mrs. Morris of French fashions in 1782, incl. the Turkish-style sultana seen in her portrait: “The Sultana, resembling the long polinese is also à la mode, but as it is not expected that it will long remain so, every body makes them of slight silk."

Mary White Morris, wife of patriot financier Robert Morris and painted by Charles Willson Peale in 1782. #vastearlyamerica #americanart #herstory

A Philadelphia portrait of a very fashionable Martha Doz (1750-1808), attributed to James Claypoole, Jr. Now at the Second Bank of the United States Portrait Gallery @INDEPENDENCENHP #vastearlyamerica #americanart #refinementofamerica #herstory

The fraktur script includes the blessing “Gott geb ihr Gluck und segen Gesundheit allerwegen ihr schutz woll Jesus seyn, und Jesum zum Trost allein” (“God give her happiness and blessing; good health at all times. Her protection shall be Jesus and Jesus her comfort alone”).

Icebreaker during diss fellows' orientation at @mcneilcenter was "what would you reproduce or bring back from early America." I went with extinct birds for some reason. But RIP to the Carolina parakeet and passenger pigeon, recorded by Mark Catesby in the 1720s. #vastearlyamerica