Died 1747 Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, executed for his role in the '45 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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"Taku bun kun" by Shiba Kokan (1747-1818)

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Halfway through Day X of Covid-19 lockdown..


🏛 collection
Hanging Scroll: Monkeys by
Mori Sosen (Japanese, b.1747, d.1821) a detail

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Welsh artist and illustrator Moses Griffith was born 1747.

These drawings are from a set of Griffith's sketchbooks that 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

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【お絵描き練習1747日目】石化風な罰です。石化していくように見せてるだけです。

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Celebrate 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 : https://t.co/JgKwmTSbaX

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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)

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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 https://t.co/dj9JD6fH2t

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Nagamachi Chikuseki (1747 - 1806)
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This compelling scene, painted in 1747, is by the French artist

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.

https://t.co/E0jKrgVsIL

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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

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Monkeys by Mori Sosen (1747-1821)

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Joshua Reynolds' self-portrait, c1747, was cropped at one time - second image shows it before it was cut down.

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第1747話 この夏の我が家の夕食のメニュー ー アメブロを更新しました

https://t.co/tr6YsCl7VH

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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

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Portrait of a Woman - Francesco Solimena (1657–1747)

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If you have any trouble locating those lost townships 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
https://t.co/8Pi19u9wa1

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"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 pour lequel il propose une identification
https://t.co/VMruTZpar3

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