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Died #OnThisDay 1747 Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, executed for his role in the '45 #Jacobite rebellion. George Selwyn was dubbed a barbarian for watching the event; he replied he 'had made amends' as he also went to see Lovat's head sewn back on again
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Hanging Scroll: Monkeys by
Mori Sosen (Japanese, b.1747, d.1821) a detail
Welsh artist and illustrator Moses Griffith was born #OTD 1747.
These drawings are from a set of Griffith's sketchbooks that @LindaHall_org purchased in 1952.
Further info: https://t.co/blCLWH508E
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665-1747)-'Jupiter among the Corybantes'-oil on copper- ca 1730 Kimbell-Art Museum
Celebrate #WorldWildlifeDay with the earliest book to depict North American wildlife - Mark Catesby's "The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands", published 1729-1747.
Browse our copies in @BioDivLibrary : https://t.co/JgKwmTSbaX
Born in Devon, he was interested in art & art theory from an early age. He was apprenticed to portraitist Thomas Hudson (1740-3). He then moved between London & Plymouth until 1745. Gentleman (c1743-9), Self (c1747) & The Neates & their Tutor (1748)
Carolina parakeet (now extinct) feeding on American cypress. Illustration from “The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands” by Mark Catesby (1683-1749), published in London between 1729 and 1747. Pic via @BioDivLibrary https://t.co/dj9JD6fH2t
This compelling scene, painted in 1747, is by the French artist #JeanBaptisteOudry.
The painting depicts a hawk attacking partridges and a rabbit, and is one of a set of four overdoors which can be found on display in the Back State Room.
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@GuzashtaLakhnau @BishtLokinder @ansari_shiza @Go_Movie_Mango @dpanikkar @ssharadmohhan @IndoIslamicPage @Chemburstudio @chaarulataa @JAJafri @BL_VisualArts @DalrympleWill @PropitiousOn3 @MohdMuzzammilK @IndiaArtHistory @ArchaeoNomad @iamrana In year 1747 the coronation of Ahmed shah abdali and he established the durrani empire this coronation was done by a sufi saint
Named sabir shah and that time sabir shah called pearls of pearls to ahmed shah abdali and he got a kohinoor from nadir shah
Joshua Reynolds' self-portrait, c1747, was cropped at one time - second image shows it before it was cut down.
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#今日はパイナップルの日2019
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August 2, 1788: English portrait and landscape painter Thomas Gainsborough dies.
At only 13, he worked as an assistant to French artist Hubert Gravelot in London. In 1768, he became a member of the Royal Academy.
🎨 Thomas Gainsborough, "Drinkstone Park", 1747
@NTS_archaeology If you have any trouble locating those lost townships @NTS_archaeology Inverigan, Achnacon & Achtriochtan - they're all on the Roy Map!
Military Survey of Scotland undertaken 1747-55 after the Jacobite rising
William Roy surveyor
Paul Sandby draughtsman
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@INHA_Fr "La plus belle femme que j'ai vue dans la peinture", pour Nicola Spinosa, auteur de "Francesco Solimena (1657-1747) et le arti a Napoli", c'est ce portrait longtemps anonyme conservé @MuseeAugustins pour lequel il propose une identification
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