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"You will be entertained with a prophecy which my Lord Chesterfield has found in the 35th chapter of Ezekiel, which clearly promises us victory over the French"
Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley, #OnThisDay 1755
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Welcome #Spring!
Watercolor by David Edward Cronin. Bound as p. 12 in vol 4 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of “Horace Walpole and his world” ed. by L. B. Seeley, 1884. https://t.co/aWN24BcbSj
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This week's #FolkloreThursday theme is the folklore of #sin! (Image: Isaac Robert Cruikshank, Lewis Walpole Library, via wikimedia commons)
Horace Walpole–died #OTD 1797–"served his country, not by drudgery in the Exchequer & Customs, which paid him, but by transmitting to posterity an incomparable vision of England as it was in his day… the machinations of politicians & the turmoil of elections." Plus ça change.
Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an #18thcentury #politician in 6 movements
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#OTD 1771 Mann wrote to Walpole that Thos. Patch "is a genius...[with] an excellent turn for caricatura...but he is so prudent as never to caricature anybody without his consent"https://t.co/ccXJNH92iI. We have 4 Patch caricature groups including 2 painted at Mann's.
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The trials of Henrietta Howard, remembered by Horace Walpole... "She has been confined with the gout in her eyes ... They poulticed her feet to draw the gout downwards, [but] it flew up into her head, and she was almost in convulsions with the agony" Ouch! #gloriousGeorgians
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Prior to Marie Antoinette's execution #OTD 1793 Horace Walpole had queried: "Can one believe that they are human beings, who 'midst all their confusions sit coolly meditating new tortures, new anguish for that poor, helpless, miserable woman?'
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Blood of Dragons: Lavaborn by TylerWalpole
Illustration for "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole
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Grinling Gibbons died #onthisday 1721. Walpole wrote, "There is no instance of a man before who gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.” #gloriousGeorgians
Princess Augusta of Great Britain was born #onthisday in 1737. Horace Walpole wrote that she "was lively, and much inclined to meddle in the private politics of the Court. #royal #gloriousGeorgians
@ChristiesInc a décidé de clore la saison par une vente couvrant plusieurs domaines artistiques. Derrière les grands noms (Rubens, Saraceni, Guerchin, Brueghel, Van Dyck..), on remarque quelques intéressants anonymes dont ce portrait bourguignon de l'ancienne collection Walpole
The first known early modern Scottish artist was, George Jameson (1589/90-1644), from Aberdeen. Walpole described him as ‘the Scottish Van Dyck’. Mary Erskine (1626), Portrait of a Lady (Attrb, nd) & Self-Portrait (nd)
Dr. Samuel Phillips Eady, a quack specialist in sexual health, certainly seems to get on well with his glamorous patients! "The Commercial Dandy and his sleeping partners", by George Cruikshank, 1821. #GloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection.
The Exquisite, Alias Dandy in Distress, is so buttoned up and laced in that he can't pick up his fallen kerchief! This image illustrates a letter from a correspondent (beneath the image) who has concerns about modern fashions... #gloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library.
Born #OnThisDay in 1735: English painter #NathanielDanceHolland (1735-1811)
Portrait of #Mari Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736-1807), ca. 1766-9
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Here’s something to try during #lockdown. “A lady - but a rakish one, Her lover’s breeches putting on!” #GloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library.