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Happy 1743rd birthday, Josabelle! I wish you all the best in life 💖 Here's some cake to celebrate your special day~! 🍰^^ #josaillust
Ichikawa Danjuro V in a Shibaraku Performance from the Play Mutsu no Hana no kata age, by Katsukawa Shunkō (1743–1812)
#ukiyoe
Aren't they wonderful? After Claude Lorrain. Mezzotint by Richard Earlom (1743-1822)
Printed in superb sepia color
After the drawing by Claude le Lorrain (1600-1682)
Published in Liber Veritatis
London, dated 1774 https://t.co/76aLZGdiSa
The death of the 7th earl of Leicester in 1743 resulted in a battle royal between his illegitimate daughter, Anne, & his niece, Elizabeth Perry, the one referred to as 'the Fairy' & the other as 'the Empress of Penshurst'. The Empress won.
#twitterstorians #HistParl
Female Fishmonger, 1772, by #MariaMargarethaLaFargue (Dutch, 1743-1813), who was born #otd (Dec 29). Held at @staedelmuseum, https://t.co/RgkWzQi8Hc #artherstory #womenartists
Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan was born #OnThisDay 1743. She was made Governess to the Children of France in 1775 and she took charge of Madame Royale in 1778. In 1782 she lost her job due to her husband's increasing debts which, by 1797, amounted at 33 million livres.
William Blake was born #OTD 1757. These illustrations by Blake are for the poem “The Grave” (1743) by Scottish poet Robert Blair, one of the so-called Graveyard Poets.
The Skeleton Reanimated
The Gambols of Ghosts
By an Open Grave
#WilliamBlake #GothicNewWorlds #Romanticism
"Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying the Lamp”. 1779-1784. French. Louis-Jean Desprez, artist (1743-1804). Collection of the Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York.
Died #OnThisDay in 1743: Swedish painter active in Great Britain #MichaelDahl (1659-1743)
Portrait of Jane Wyndham of Dunraven, ca. 1700
#Dahl #SwedishArt #BritishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1743: Swedish painter active in Great Britain #MichaelDahl (1659-1743)
Portrait of Bainbrigg Buckeridge (1668-1733), 1696
#Dahl #SwedishArt #BritishArt
"Sepulchre in Egyptian Style with Sphinxes and an Owl." Drawing. ca. 1779. French/Swedish. Louis-Jean Deprez, artist (1743-1804) . Collections of the Cooper Hewitt Museum.
Died #OnThisDay in 1743: Swedish painter active in Great Britain #MichaelDahl (1659-1743)
Portrait of Thomas Hopsonn (1642-1717), 1705-8
#Dahl #SwedishArt #BritishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1743: Swedish painter active in Great Britain #MichaelDahl (1659-1743)
Self-portrait, 1691
#Dahl #SwedishArt #BritishArt
Baptized #OnThisDay in 1761: American-born English based painter #MatherBrown (1761-1831)
Portrait of #ThomasJefferson (1743-1826), 1786
#AmericanArt #EnglishArt
‘View on the Thames with Westminster Bridge’ was painted in oil by British landscape artist Samuel Scott around 1743–44. Here Scott depicts the first bridge, designed by Swiss engineer Charles Labelye and completed in 1750. Image: Wiki commons
RT @pilgrimrose: Died #OTD 1743, #French painter of light comedy, Nicolas Lancret < A Gilded Cage https://t.co/iDYA2p4BmS
Died #OTD 1743, #French painter of light comedy, Nicolas Lancret < A Gilded Cage https://t.co/LckQMxU7dG
Born #OnThisDay in 1677: #AleksanderBenedyktSobieski (1677-1714), Prince of Poland, son of King #JanIIISobieski
Portrait by Circle of #HyacintheRigaud (1659-1743), ca. 1696
#Sobieski
Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie