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Portraiture is the #OnlineArtExchange this week
We've selected: Lady Brisco (d.1822) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) from @EnglishHeritage Kenwood
Joshua Reynolds, The Age of Innocence, 1788 https://t.co/cHv1MGceBq #tatemuseum #museumarchive
"The Cyclops at their Forge"
by John Murphy after Luca Giordano; 1788.
In Greek mythology cyclopes were three sons of Uranus and Gaea. Their names were Arges, Brontes and Steropes. They had to forge the thunderbolts for Zeus.
#OTD in 1788 it was a man (James Dore) who gave a sermon on the African slave trade: but it was radical publisher and campaigner Martha Gurney who made it a best-selling sensation. A powerful influencer, her London shop was a hub for abolitionists.
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Lady en azul. Retrato de una dama. Dama con su perro. Juego de la mariposa. 🎨Gainsborough. 1727-1788. @scastaldi9 @curra36 @marialves53 @quemuant @luiscarden6 @AndrsSaumellLla @Andreu91418775 @quemuant @anna66sav @Dinsh777 @maluisa_3 @malka8491 @VLevemir @Navymat @ipe_rosa1
Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857), View of Dresden by Moonlight, 1839
oil on canvas
Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden
A selection of poppies from our collection.
#RemembranceSunday #RemembranceDay
1) Unknown French draughtsman, c. 1750.
2) Georg Dionysius Ehret, 1765.
3) Kitagawa Utamaro, 1788.
4) Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918)
The fuchsia first arrived in England in 1788, having been discovered in the Caribbean c.1696. It is known as the Virgin Mary’s earrings & when worn by a bride on her wedding day can bring great blessings. It is also a favourite hiding place of fairies. #FolkloreThursday Img: CMB
Two beautiful works by artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)
*Mary Countess Howe, c1765, wife of Admiral Lord Richard Howe
*The Honourable Mary Cathcart, daughter of 9th Lord Cathcart, who was Ambassador to Catherine the Great. c1775-1777
"Dos hombres ante una cascada al atardecer", 1823
Johan Christian Dahl (Bergen,1788-Dresde, 1857) Ambientada en un paisaje salvaje que evoca su Noruega natal se representa asimismo junto a su compañero y amigo pintor C. David Friedrich. #Hilos
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Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1788
In the modern world there are two philosophies: the one which stems from Rousseau, and sweeps aside discipline as unnecessary, the other, which finds its fullest expression in totalitarianism, which thinks
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Het vierdelige werk (1788-1791) over de paddenstoelen rond Halifax is het resultaat van 27 jaar verzamelen, observeren, tekenen, graveren en beschrijven.
An history of fungusses, growing about Halifax
James Bolton of Halifax
1788-1791
Londen
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