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Banyans: Garments that #18thCentury Gentlemen Loved - #Banyans were garments that became popular with gentlemen in the 18th century. They were oriental in style being influenced by Persian and Asian clothing ... https://t.co/C4BOg3Pja0 #fashhist
#OnThisDay 19Jun1767 the Beast of Gévaudan, a monstrous creature who was killing French people, was killed by Jean Chastel. https://t.co/e8BhheHnQ8 #beastofgevauden #18thcentury #folklorethursday
Many fascinating topics in the most recent ECF special issue:
"Transformations of Gender and Race in Maria Riddell's Transatlantic Biopolitics," by Melissa Bailes
ECF 32.1, 2019
https://t.co/3fb2qLhoob
#18thcentury #readecf
Another from the most recent ECF special issue:
"Crusoe's Animals, Annotated: Cats, Dogs, and Disease in the Naval Chronicle Edition of Robinson Crusoe, 1815" by Lucinda Cole
ECF 32.1, 2019
https://t.co/9Pp2TI8mxY
#18thcentury #readecf
The courtship ritual of giving a young woman a bird in a cage symbolized that she held his heart. In the background, a Temple of Vesta has connotations of #feminine #virtue and #eroticism. 2/
#HECAA #18thcentury #arthistory #Boucher #Frenchart #rococo #neoclassicism #tapestry
RT @GeorgianGent: My blog is about women drivers - or rather, the fashion for 18thC harlots to drive their own phaetons. See https://t.co/tpt67MMJP9
Chateau de Saint-Cloud in the 1700s and 1800s - The #ChateaudeSaintCloud was built on a woody hill that overlooked the left bank of the Seine River about three miles west of Paris. It had been ... https://t.co/l1fYxEF1Tl #18thcentury #19thcentury
RT @GeorgianGent: My blog concerns the first 'high flyers' - the most fashionable of phaetons - and the determination of #18thC courtesans to be seen, whip in hand, driving their own vehicles. https://t.co/tpt67MMJP9
Chateau de Saint-Cloud in the 1700s and 1800s - The #ChateaudeSaintCloud was built on a woody hill that overlooked the left bank of the Seine River about three miles west of Paris. It had been ... https://t.co/begIGPkHo2 #18thcentury #19thcentury #FrHist
Born #OnThisDay 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, #DuchessofDevonshire was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL #18thcentury
18thc drawing of a couple drawing the interior view of the East End of Netley Abbey.
Ruined interiors must count as #InterestingInteriors, @YorkshireMuseum?
https://t.co/hxT435aecN
#BotanicMonday Tulipa javana Rumph "Juan de Cuéllar's expedition to the Philippines" (1786-1794); botanical determination: Crinum amabile. #Botany #18thcentury #Archives #ScientificIllustration #SciArt #NatHist #Museums @RJBOTANICO
William Hogarth painted this portrait of actor David Garrick as #Shakespeare’s Richard III in 1745 (@walkergallery). It is the first great British theatrical portrait, but #Hogarth presents the scene as a history painting.
#HECAA #arthistory #18thcentury #portraiture
Elizabeth Farren (actress) married Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby and became the Countess of Derby. Learn more: https://t.co/eGZbFXX4Ws #elizabethfarren #actresses #18thcentury
Whilst ‘faggot’ has been used as a derogatory term for homosexuals since around 1914, it was originally used to describe a bundle of sticks (a faggot) which were used as firewood and in the burning heretics throughout 12th-mid 18thC Europe.
Socialite #MadameRécamier: Interesting Facts About Her - Madame Récamier, also known as Juliette Récamier, was a native of Lyon, France born on 3 December 1777. She was the only child of Jean Bernard, a ... https://t.co/opjyIauIXu #18thcentury #19thcentury
My spin on The Progress of Love series by #Fragonard 💕 #rococo #18thcenturyart #illustration
A rhyme of rival courtesans? In The Beggar’s Opera (1728) 'Lucy Lockit' loses her (rich)man to Polly. In reality 18thc courtesans Kitty Fisher & Maria Gunning were rivals; Maria wed wealthy Lord Coventry but Kitty had an affair with him thus 'picking her pocket' #FolkloreThursday