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🐟 Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773:
Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790.
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François Boucher, 1703 – 1770, French painter, The Chinese Marriage, or An Audience with the Emperor of China, 1742
Philadelphia-born, Matthew Pratt traveled to London in 1764 and 1770, copying a number of old master paintings. He exhibited this copy of Guido Reni’s 1636 Jupiter and Europa at Williamsburg’s King’s Arms Tavern in 1773. Now @colonialwmsburg #vastearlyamerica #americanart
Portrait of the artist’s niece, Miss Helena Beatson, c. 1770, by #CatherineRead (Scottish, 1723-78), who died #otd (Dec 15). Private collection; source, https://t.co/Kw2GiVe8br #artherstory #womenartists #KatherineRead
🐟 Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773:
Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790.
https://t.co/V0A0ZrZUh4
The Third Panchen Lama, Tibet, C. 1770, Opaque pigments and gold on textile
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On this day in 1770, a Russian fleet obliterates the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Chesma.
Boucher created drawings as studies for works, as teaching aides &, most importantly, as finished artworks in their own right. He died in 1770, aged 66. His Rococo style lives on. Pygmalion & Galatea (nd), Satyr (nd) & Seated Woman holding a Fan (nd)
19 April 1770, the future Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are married by proxy at the Augustinerkirche in Vienna. #otd
#OTD in 1770, William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth in the Lake District.
“Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”
Chinese export goose-form tureen and cover, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, circa 1770, sold for $107,100 (est. $80,000/120,000) at @Sothebys It is 1 of 3 examples known, 1 of which is at the @metmuseum https://t.co/up9WypJ0Ut #antiques #antique #art #artist #Chinese #China #goose
It's an absolutely massive #NewDCDay, as the #DCInfiniteFrontier era continues with Batman: Urban Legends #1, The Joker #1, Superman #29, Wonder Woman #770, and much more! What are you reading first?
Savez-vous pourquoi cette oeuvre de Boucher appartient au @NatMus_SWE de Stockholm ? Elle faisait partie de la collection du Comte de Tessin, aristocrate suédois mort le 7 janvier 1770, qui, ruiné, dût la céder à la Couronne.
#CeJourLa #EmpireDesSens
📷 Léda et le cygne, 1742
Omar ibn Said was born in 1770, in what is now Senegal, West Africa. A well educated man, in 1807 he was enslaved and transported to #SouthCarolina in the #USA where he remained a slave until his death aged 94 in 1864.
Full info: https://t.co/heELBhc7fg
#Slavery #Colourised
Perrette et le pot au lait, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Vers 1770, musée Cognac Jay @museecj,@parismusees. Gif : @PamelaChougne2
Part river, part canal – the Calder and Hebble Navigation opened in 1770, when barges transported materials and goods to and from the wool cloth mills around Dewsbury. Scenes for the upcoming town heritage trail for #DewsburyTHI. Created with @regenboy and @HeritageFundNOR.
On this day in 1770, a Russian fleet obliterates the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Chesma.