‘Whatever one’s perspective, the 1790s seem to offer useful lessons in how we might comprehend the revolutionary tenor of our times’ https://t.co/IOZJ9YJo7x

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Also the site of a major demonstration against draconian laws in the 1790s. James Gillray mocks the protesters in the print attached, see https://t.co/lfIAmuMkRM.

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‘Whatever one’s perspective, the 1790s seem to offer useful lessons in how we might comprehend the revolutionary tenor of our times’ https://t.co/IOZJ9YJo7x

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Two 1790s works of a hunting expedition of Nizam Ali Khan of around Golconda Fort with top ranking nobles & his personal staff on horseback. The procession is led by the Nishan on elephant followed by French Infantry of Mon. Raymond ...1/3

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His father was the first black general ever in France, it was in the 1790s under Napoleon. Nazis detroyed his statue during WW2. The story of the Dumas family should be a tv series, it’s so complex and interesting.

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revisits the focusing on the victims in 1779, 1784, showing the Houses of Death in the illuminated books & colour prints in the 1790s, and a racially diverse grouping in 1805. But how does he see their 'invisible enemy'? more on 15/6

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William Alexander accompanied Lord Macartney to China in the early 1790s as official artist. This self-portrait was made 'at sea'. In 1808 he became the first Keeper of Prints and Drawings . https://t.co/9gRp8EnngS

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Clementina Clerke and Richard Vining Perry: Their - One of the more well-known elopements of the 1790s involved a precocious 14-year-old girl named and a handsome Bristol surgeon-apothecary ... https://t.co/hzoVYllC6K

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Samurai Noel, one of the most famous samurai in 1790s and once in charge of the Gym Oasis. People found a note in his notebook which says: 'sword+me=forever'💘🗡💧💧

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Born in 1771: French painter (1771-1835)

Portrait of Celeste Coltellini, Madame Meuricoffre, 1790s

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Jack Ashore – a sanitised view of how Royal Navy sailors spent their time in port from the 1790s.

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Born in 1756: Scottish portrait painter Henry (1756-1823)

Portrait of Portrait of James and John Lee Allen, early 1790s

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(1/2)In the 1790s, the British Army exiled about 5000 Black Caribs (the Garifuna) to Balliceaux following the defeat of Paramount Chief Joseph Chatoyer. Half of them died on the island and the others were deported to Roatan Island off the coast of Honduras.
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Thomas Lawrence - Portrait of Catherine Grey, Lady Manners, as Juno (and details) 1794, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA.

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An elegant, fashionable evening dress, c. 1790s, from the collection of the on view during the recent exhibit "An Agreeable Tyrant" curated by Read on:
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Hugh D Hamilton(1740-1808)Irish portrait-painter. Spent periods in London & Rome be4 returning 2 Dublin in the 1790s. Until the mid-1770s worked mostly in pastel. Style influenced the painter Lewis Vaslet. Known 4 pastel oval portraits depicting the head & shoulders of the sitter

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*The Man-Midwife* a cartoon from the 1790s, courtesy of Our new exhibition shows how midwives tried to defend their profession from the unwanted interference of men. Catch it from 19 Sept. More @ https://t.co/kjEbj1ltul

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LOVE these dainty pale blue silk high heeled shoes, 1790s, with satin bow and silver tinsel embroidery

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Company From Limerick to China – the journal of a day-dreaming young sailor on board East India ship Ceres 1790s. https://t.co/YZjPDkMcPg

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