Collected this fair beauty today for an upcoming exhibition. 'celebrity' by Sir Joshua Reynolds & we think it's never been on public display before!

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It’s National Dog Day! I hope all of you dog owners pamper your pooch extravagantly 🐶

Here is Hogarth’s dog. Held by the Tate gallery "Hogarth's pug dog, Trump, serves as an emblem of the artist's own pugnacious character."

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RT : From All Things Georgian archives 'Was green fashionable in the 18th century?' https://t.co/lxNaIztDug

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Reflections essays now feature in ECF:
"The Danger of Liaisons," by Jennifer Tsien
https://t.co/6IYpljapS6
ECF 30.4, Summer 2018, read now
See the abstract in the first image here:

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Making Weather: Communication Networks and the Great Storm of 1703
by Sean Silver, ECF 30.4, Summer 2018
https://t.co/aLZiNxkzjG

See the article abstract in the first picture here.

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Over on Drawquest (which I have now joined up) I have made a digital illustration of a Basset Hound in 18th Century clothes - fun!

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On All Things Dido Elizabeth Belle's mother in plus we reveal new information about Dido's siblings.
https://t.co/0uIoE0XCIj

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First - George II and Family in a Park (sketch) and second - ‘Kent’s Temple on a Mount in Richmond Gardens’

A projected conversation piece of the royal family that was never completed, and remained in studio.

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HRH William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as a Boy. (1732)

The youngest and favourite son of George II and Queen Caroline, painted in Hogarth’s nearly successful effort to gain the favour of the royal family 👸🏻🤴🏻

18thcentury

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A Proposed Tax Bill Targets 27-Year-Old Spinsters...And Their Cats! https://t.co/aPQif6Aw1J'
'those women who refused offers of marriage in order to remain independent or to keep control of their own money and property.'

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Happy weekend!
Left: The Rake at Oxford, or A Consultation of Physicians (sketch) which could be an abandoned first thought for the opening scene of A Rake’s Progress.

Right: The official plate 1 of A Rake’s Progress by

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From the blog archives of All Things Georgian - 18th Century 'Flying Machines' https://t.co/WjppfA5mVB

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Born 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, 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

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