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All the fun of the fair torture style on a Meissen cup outside painted circa 1740. It appears to be a figure tied to a wheel watched from above by prisoners tied to stakes watched over by guards.

What a fantastic pair! Gouache, one depicting a view of the Campidoglio in Rome, the other a view of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

beautiful teapot with c scroll handles. Part of a coffee and tea service, Manufactuur Oud-Loosdrecht, c. 1778 - c. 1782

I love the splendid new cover of this revised book on the eccentric architect John Wood the Elder. Architecture based on mystical foundations always fascinates me. Wood is by far one of the most interesting 18th century architects-

#JMWTurner, St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, exhibited at the RA in 1834. One criticism sometimes levelled at Turner is his weakness with the human figure, particularly with faces on a small scale. Here is a detail. I will let you decide. @V_and_A

And Inigo Jones’s design for the masque ‘Albion’s Triumph’, owned by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington. Burlington is praised in the 1723 ‘Constitutions’ in a poem by Charles Delafaye linking him to the history of #Freemasonry (last photograph).

The consequences of the Battle of Actium were enormous. ‘If Anthony and Cleopatra had won, the centre of gravity of the Roman Empire would have shifted eastward. Alexandria, Egypt, would have veid with Rome as a capital’.

A really interesting Zoom talk this evening on the topic of the ‘Making of a Virtual Arcadia’- the digital reconstruction of Alexander Pope’s lost garden at Twickenham. Professor Paul Richens explained the processes & decisions behind the digital reconstruction which was 5 years

the context of Burlington’s associations & interests. CH sits right at the centre of a time when Freemasonry spread across the world. Burlington would have appreciated it as much in regards its philosophy of self-improvement, charity & friendship as to architectural origins.

There was a time not long ago when an suggestion that @Chiswick_House contained #MasonicSymbolism was met with ridicule & scorn. Thank goodness this mindset has largely dissipated. Now historians are taking a more nuanced and balanced look and its decoration and evaluating it in