23 Feb 1781 Gen Nathanael Greene’s army reinforced by 600 Virginians & crosses the Dan R, beginning a new campaign in the Carolinas. He would lose more battle than win, but his strategic maneuvering tied down British forces & enabled the populace to rally.

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He was the ultimate Academician in that his first concern was status & clique whereas those artists of stature choose their own path (Rembrandt, Kollwitz, Rego & Goya etc). Lady Frances Finch (1781-2), Captain Coussmaker (c1782), Self (1780) & Countess Spencer (1781-2)

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The Nightmare (1781) by Henry Fuseli.

- This painting's dreamlike and erotic evocation of infatuation and obsession was a huge popular success when it was created.
- It was parodied in political satire a lot.
- Fuseli ended up producing at least three other versions.

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3 Feb 1781, Gen Nathanael Greene & his troops cross the Yadkin R. to evade Gen Charles Cornwallis. Crossing followed Patriot losses at the Catawba R. & Tarrant's Tavern, as well as from heavy rains & roiling rivers. His army would live to fight again.

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1 Feb 1781 Continental Congress decides to create more executive offices to oversee finances, the war, and maritime affairs.

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Idomeneo, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart premiered on 29 January 1781

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22 Jan 1781 Morrisania, NY (Bronx) Lt Col William Hull attacks a Loyalist outpost commanded by Lt Col James de Lancey. The rebels withdraw after inflicting 50 casualties and taking 50 prisoners and suffering 18 casualties.

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⚡Art Institute of Chicago⚡
The Actor Yamashita Kinsaku II in an Unidentified Role, Katsukawa Shunkо̄, 1781, Japan

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ヘンリー・フュースリー(イギリス、1741〜1825)『夢魔』(1781年)
金縛りを受けているかのように苦しそうな表情で眠る女性。その上にしゃがみ込む夢魔と背後の牡馬が怪しくこちらを見つめている。悪夢(nightmare)を見てしまった時、どうも胸が苦しくなるのはこの夢魔の仕業なのだろう

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4 Jan 1781 Camp on Pacolet Creek, SC Brig Gen Morgan, commanding the “Flying Army,” wrote Gen Nathanael Greene on the state of his campsite, local militia, the poor state of supplies & reconnaissance efforts & the overall poor military situation.

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4 Jan 1781 Princeton NJ Gen Marquis de Lafayette, Gen Arthur St Clair, and Col John Laurens try to parley with Penn. Line mutineers but fail to get them to disarm.

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Louis Jean François Lagrenée (30 December 1724 – 19 June 1805) was a French painter-Rinaldo and Armida.Alcibiades on his Knees Before his Mistress1781

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Giuseppe Zais (March 22, 1709 -December 29, 1781) was an Italian painter.Landscape

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🎨Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781 - 1841) -
Castle by the River

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ヨハン・ハインリヒ・フュースリー『夢魔』1781年 デトロイト美術館

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Most of the illustrations in Thomas Pennant's (1726-1798) Synopsis of Quadrupeds (1771) were reused for History of Quadrupeds (1781), but the opossum got a dramatic makeover:
( look - they switched out a lean machine for CHONK lol)

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