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Do you remember the time when it WASN'T raining in England?
No, we neither. It must have been sometime around the 14th century.
Let us pray ...
Harley MS 1766, f. 133r
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William Wynne Ryland 1774 stipple engraving of General Stanwix’s daughter who was lost at sea in 1766. Ryland was later found guilty of forging bills of exchange and was the last person to be hung at Tyburn in August 1783
And now I give ye: A Stuart Prince: Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766). Known to some of us as King James III & VIII. He is Prince of Wales from July 1688 until the invasion of William III when the family is forced into exile.
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#KeepitStuart
#OldEnglish #WOTD: regn-scūr, m.n: a shower of rain, a shower. (RAYN-shoor) Image: Croesus in John Lydgate’s trans. of Boccaccio’s Fall of Princes; England (probably Suffolk), c. 1450-60; @BLMedieval MS Harley 1766, f. 133r.
#Poems by Catherine Rebecca Grey, Lady Manners (1766? - 1852) added to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive #ECPA #c18 #poetry #dh #c18dh https://t.co/Mmi5sms4KY
The vicar receives his tithes (1792) by Henry Singleton (England, 1766–1839). #GeorgianArt #Christianity #Tithing
The Ale-House Door (c.1790) by Henry Singleton (England, 1766–1839). Not much has changed in 225 years. [‘There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.’ - Samuel Johnson] #Pub
The vicar receives his tithes (1792) by Henry Singleton (England, 1766–1839). #Art #GeorgianEra
The Ale-House Door (c.1790) by Henry Singleton (England, 1766–1839). Not much has changed in 225 years. #Pub #PublicHouse #Georgian
François-Xavier Fabre.1766-1837. Oedipus and the Sphinx.1806-1808. Dahesh Museum of Art. NYC.
This 1792 painting by JMW Turner is an evocative and highly romanticised depiction of the Avon Gorge. The building atop the gorge is the 1766 built Clifton Observatory. At this time it was a former windmill which was damaged in a storm. #Bristol
Many works classified as 'books' in the main Explore catalogue @britishlibrary are unique, like this 1766 album of prints, drawings and letters relating to France compiled by the antiquary Walter Bowman https://t.co/hbjpaDZPel
18C French botanist Jeanne Baret was first woman to circumnavigate the globe, posing as a man on Bougainville’s expedition (1766-69), by enlisting as a valet/assistant to the ship’s naturalist Philibert Commerçon, with whom she had a previous long-term relationship
Heatwave, you say? #HotCulture
British Library Harley MS 1766, f. 133r
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