Tipu Sultan had already despatched an embassy to France, led by Mohammad Dervesh Khan, in 1787, to explore the potential of a British ouster from India. This embassy, a consequence of his consistent and unrelenting struggle against the British, proved a sterile endeavour.

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Pour et 35 autres🦋🔹
Bellisimo-Buon Martedi * Don Alberto e tt.🌹*IL y a progres dans la condition des hommes et femmes ,mais il n'y pas de progrés en Amour!*Pascal Bruckner.

Pompeo Girolamo Batoni 1708-1787
Diane et Cupidon
Metropolitain

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1位(RT605/Fav1787):https://t.co/8h69zbhrwK (odawarahakone)
2位(RT475/Fav1812):https://t.co/NNo5D9eOkv (ebihurya332)
3位(RT340/Fav1164):https://t.co/FQxPdR0Qvf (habanero_mgmg)
4位(RT243/Fav796):https://t.co/B18WH8PD5i (aki0107_inica)

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Sketch for The Death of Saint Joseph, 1787

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Mozart’s Don Giovanni premièred in Prague on this day in 1787. Here’s a 19th-century design for the cemetery scene.

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Illustrations of excavated Roman pottery in London 1786 (published in 1787 "Combe and Jackson").

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A young lady enjoying a pleasant dream, whilst on a break from the rigours of reading in front of a blazing fire in her home, October 26th 1787

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One of my favourite early-modern paintings (Fencing Match between St.-Georges and ‘La Chevalière D’Eon’ on April 9, 1787 by Charles Jean Robineau) and me, dressed as d'Eon was in this painting https://t.co/fbya37vCSZ

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1位(RT873/Fav3160):https://t.co/rVpN6Ygr3k (ebihurya332)
2位(RT600/Fav1787):https://t.co/KGsVJmm1Fp (odawarahakone)
3位(RT424/Fav1499):https://t.co/fJasieVf1h (orca_buteo)
4位(RT260/Fav880):https://t.co/R6bcUyLrHC (aki0107_inica)

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The spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum) is the largest chiropter in the New World. This drawing is from the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain (1787-1803), one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions in

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永井直旧:1768-1790 美濃加納藩の第3代藩主。尚庸系永井家6代。諱は尚旧とも。官位は従五位下。伊賀守。明和6年(1769)、父の死去により2歳で家督を継いだ。天明7年(1787)、大坂加番に。寛政2年(1790)9月8日、23歳で死去。嗣子がなく、弟の太田直熹の次男尚佐が跡を継いだ。

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Sketch for The Death of Saint Joseph, 1787

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ANDREAS SCHELFHOUT (DUTCH 1787-1870)
1818.
Oil on panel
53 x 71 cm. (20 7/8 x 28 in.)
Private collection.

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Artwork: Self-portrait in a Straw Hat
Artist: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
Date: c.1787
Style: Rococo
Genre: Self-portrait
Media: Oil, Canvas
Dimensions: 97.8 x 70.5 cm
Location: National Gallery, London, UK

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"Psyche revived by Cupid's kiss" by Antonio Canova (1787-1793), at

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The Prisoner (1787-90), Vesuvius (c1788), Sir Richard Arkwright (1789-90) & Arkwright’s Cotton Mills (1790s). Wright moved in the same circles as Arkwright. It was Arkwright who championed the factory system & the Spinning Frame & laid the foundations of mass-production

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"Time Unveiling the Truth", Pompeo Batoni (1708 – 1787), Italian

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