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Mark Catesby's early 18thc ‘Natural History’, credited with being the first fully-illustrated study of North American and Catesby rejected ‘artistic’ techniques believing they compromised truth, using instead what he called ‘a Flat tho’ exact manner’

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2021-06-23

Mercredi, on en profite pour aller chez le coiffeur..

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2021-06-16

The constellation Draco from the Catalog of Fixed Stars by al-Sufi, 18thC Arabic copy https://t.co/bBu8vQSeRN

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2021-06-15

Hyde Park: Interesting Incidents in the 1700s - was established by Henry VIII in 1536 and opened to the public in 1637 where it quickly became popular. Major improvements to the park ... https://t.co/vuNLtznk50

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2021-06-14

Hyde Park: Interesting Incidents in the 1700s - was established by Henry VIII in 1536 and opened to the public in 1637 where it quickly became popular. Major improvements to the park ... https://t.co/nytHMsyNsD

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2021-06-09

I had a lot of fun with this one, it's so deliciously colourful 😍 I put a historical twist on it since that's my niche 😏⁠

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2021-06-08

This dashing equestrian is Colonel Henry Ludington, an aide-de-camp to George Washington during the Revolution. Henry helped establish the first American "secret service" consisting of a network of patriots that gathered info about the British troops.

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2021-05-28

Though Thomas Rowlandson lampoons the artist ignoring his family for his creative work in Chamber of Genius, perhaps the scene hits home for working parents during the pandemic!
1/ Hand-colored etching at the Met (April 2, 1806).

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2021-05-28

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Master of Miniatures, Pastels, and Oils - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was the youngest of eight children. She was born in 1749 in Paris to a bourgeois haberdasher. As an adolescent ... https://t.co/zWbiRiKhRU

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2021-05-25

Happy Introduced to England in the 1650s, tea sales of the British East India Company at the end of the — at 20m lbs. — were 400 times as much as at the beginning of the century.

From our BOTANY OF EMPIRE exhibit: https://t.co/368tP9v1Jz

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2021-05-22

You can find ECF on Project MUSE:
Plebeianizing the Female Soldier: Radical Liberty and /The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies/, by Fraser Easton https://t.co/6qpzzvOzqb

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2021-05-18

Women’s Accessories in the 1700s - Women’s were the fashion item that completed their look, and in the eighteenth century, there were plenty of accessories for a woman to use or wear ... https://t.co/yjrI5cXte9

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2021-05-17

Congratulations 2020 and 2021 graduates! This portrait of an unknown Graduate of Merton College, Oxford is attributed to George Knapton (c. 1754/1755, ). 1/

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2021-05-16

Because it's Tuesday: reposting the Material Fictions articles, this one from Part 2.

Soft Materiality: Dress and Material Fiction in T.S. Surr's /A Winter in London/
by Timothy Campbell https://t.co/FoYsLm5dgy

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2021-05-05