William Marlow_View of Rome from the Tiber (c. 1775) [3416 * 2731] by Silver-Hunter-1025 on museum

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18 Nov 1775 Fort Ninety-Six, SC. Col Patrick Cunningham’s 1,800 Loyalists invest the 600 rebels under Col Andrew Williamson. A desultory exchange of shots occurs over the next few days.

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François-Adrien Boieldieu: The French Mozart - François-Adrien Boieldieu was born the same day as English novelist Jane Austen, on 16 December 1775. Boieldieu’s father was secretary to ... https://t.co/gSAAnfzubc

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14 Nov 1775 Col Benedict Arnold’s forces arrive on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec. Arnold demands garrison to surrender. Lt Col Allen Maclean refused. Short on supplies & lacking artillery, Arnold goes to Pointe-aux-Trembles to await reinforcements.

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🦋 De uitlandsche kapellen, voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America /.
A Amsteldam: Chez Barthelmy Wild, 1779-1782 [i.e. 1775-1782].
https://t.co/tcjq7c97Zv

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November 9, 1775: James Monroe was made a Mason at Williamsburg Lodge No. 6 in Virginia.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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Quelle baleine êtes-vous en ce Le graveur allemand Jacob Schmuzer (1713-1775) a créé des dizaines d’illustrations pour le livre Discours sur l’histoire naturelle de Gottlieb Wilhelm (1758-1833). Plusieurs oeuvres de Schmuzer sont conservées au Musée. 📷MCN

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Since I have not posted anything on yet, I have thought of dropping this beautiful painting of the three witches casting a spell from Shakespeare's Macbeth Act IV, Scene I.

🎨 Daniel Gardner, 1775



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🌍 De uitlandsche kapellen, voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America /.
A Amsteldam: Chez Barthelmy Wild, 1779-1782 [i.e. 1775-1782].
https://t.co/wmFbK8cOpm

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Two beautiful works by artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

*Mary Countess Howe, c1765, wife of Admiral Lord Richard Howe

*The Honourable Mary Cathcart, daughter of 9th Lord Cathcart, who was Ambassador to Catherine the Great. c1775-1777

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1744年10月28日 ウィアリム・ホッジスがロンドンに生誕。
《イースター島のモアイ》(1775-76)

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Print, Politics and Industrialisation

The first event in the Graphic Landscape: The Landscape Print Series in Britain, c.1775–1850 series.

2 Nov | 12 – 2pm | Zoom
Mark Hallett, Felicity Myrone , , Lizzie Jacklin & Morna O'Neill

https://t.co/G3ny1mvtZn

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No, non si tratta di un’opera d’arte concettuale.

È il ritratto di Mariana de Silva y Sarmiento, duquesa de Huescar, dipinto da Anton Raphael Mengs nel 1775 ( ).

Fu interrotto dopo che una crepa apparve nella tavola minacciando l’integrità del dipinto.

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A couple of beasts from the 18thc grimoire Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros (c.1775)
Author Unknown. Held in the Wellcome Library, London

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An audience watching French pioneering balloonist and parachutist Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (1775-1847), the first woman to fly a balloon solo and parachute down, up in the air on 28 March 1802

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