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@vinee265 @Fr_VanNyverseel @Mimaxsata @AhmetDuranHergn @oldrobel @JyoKurohata @lemaillardpoete @_photo_BW @wang_xiaolu @WellensRog @rajsoyantar Tx mr. @vinee265 - About clouds - Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes 'Study of Clouds' 1780s - Louvre Museum
The rise of fashion publications helped to popularize a trend for casual clothing during the 1780s. They also reflected the growing consumption of fashion in middle and working classes. Read more about this decade at the link below!
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By the mid-1780s Sarah Siddons–died #OTD 1831–had established herself as a cultural icon & the undisputed Queen of Drury Lane. By blurring the distinction between the characters she played on stage & representations of herself offstage, she presented a duality to her admirers.
Taking your daily exercise 1780s style. George Frost painted this copy of Gainsborough’s Ladies in the Mall in 1820. The painting was owned by Frost, who was influenced by Gainsborough & collected his art. Find out more about Frost on Collections Online - https://t.co/7CxD2ABX1u
Standing Male Nude (1760s-1780s) by Nicholas-Bernard Lépicié.
This is one of the best life drawings I've ever seen. Masterful!
source:
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Wigs: Their Wearers and Eighteenth-Century Anecdotes - In the eighteenth century, those who wore #wigs almost always powdered them. By the 1780s, young men were moving away from wigs and were powdering their ... https://t.co/o7UhB4RdrO #18thcentury #1700s
Wigs: Their Wearers and Eighteenth-Century Anecdotes - In the eighteenth century, those who wore #wigs almost always powdered them. By the 1780s, young men were moving away from wigs and were powdering their ... https://t.co/PoHdo2SUPl #18thcentury #18thc
Psyche being awakened by Cupid - Bénigne Gagneraux, 1780s. (Palazzo Altieri, Rome).
English 18C landscape artist Francis Towne failed 11 times to get elected to the Royal Academy / forgotten for more than 100 years / now ultra-fashionable. These watercolours remind me, oddly, of Japanese woodblock prints ~ Ambleside ■ Tarpeian Rock, Rome ■ Tivoli (1780s)
As a foil to his society portraits he began his Cottage series where, influenced by Murillo, he sought to raise the stature of what he saw as honest peasant life. Cottage Girl (1785), Girl with Pigs (1782) & Cottage Door (1780s). The Cottage Girl is his masterpiece in
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Late 1780s French button set with scenes of everyday life painted on porcelain. Buttons for your coat.
Part of this publication is OBERON, TITANIA AND PUCK WITH FAIRIES DANCING--one of Blake's largest water colors of the 1780s. Its size and quality suggest that it may have been intended for exhibition, like the Joseph water colors displayed at the Royal Academy in 1785.
Commissioned by Catherine the Great, Flora Rossica is a beautifully illustrated study of Russian flora & fauna published in St Petersburg in 1780s.
It will be on display with other natural history books at our next library event Sat 21 March.
Tickets: https://t.co/YD6Gm3FNiW
As a foil to his society portraits he began his Cottage series where, influenced by Murillo, he sought to raise the stature of what he saw as honest peasant life. Cottage Girl (1785), Girl with Pigs (1782) & Cottage Door (1780s). The Cottage Girl is his masterpiece in @NGIreland
Gingerbread is a #Christmas favourite, made using the aromatic, pungent and spicy rhizome (sideways-growing stem) of Zingiber officinale. Ginger has been grown at the Botanic Garden since the late 1780s. Discover more in this #Plants400 article: https://t.co/au8kuuRQKH