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Died 1788 Thomas Gainsborough, unmistakable artist of the He is supposed to have painted this portrait of William Wollaston c.1759; a decade later Wollaston became MP for Read more about him below: https://t.co/c3nbkv7eon

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2019-08-02

Gloucester's birth, just months after the 'Glorious Revolution' had represented the stability of the new regime but he suffered from a number of maladies & his brief life was nicely summed up in the ode composed by Purcell in 1695

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2019-07-30

Why Historians Are Reexamining the Case of the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real https://t.co/9Cn28YiykP

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2019-07-30

Sometimes get into our This critter lives in an book published in Paris, likely copied from art: https://t.co/tcwRMBid4F. We're over the insect's summer style—perfectly matches its pink & green plant!

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2019-07-28

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Bums, Tums and Downy Calves' https://t.co/j4Shdgz2sf

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2019-07-22

Sir Joshua Reynolds, portrait artist was born 1723, at Plympton His portraits could command up to a massive 200 guineas.

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2019-07-16

From the archives of All Things Georgian, '18th Century Stomachers' https://t.co/sXfzQx6OlG

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2019-07-13

It's This lovely bouquet pattern is found inside our 1707 edition of "The beaux stratagem: a comedy." Published in London, it was written by George Farquhar, an Irish dramatist.
https://t.co/Vg9BIN5dRN

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2019-06-17

Married 16May1770, the future Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in the Royal Chapel of Versailles. She had been married by proxy to Louis at the Augustinian Church in Vienna on 19 April.

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2019-05-16

Happy ! This bright pattern is from "The Poetical Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift", published in London in 1787.
https://t.co/YZ9q34ApAy

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2019-05-07

Plates from William Smellie's 'Theory and Practice of Midwifery' (1752). Smellie, a Lanarkshire-born 'man-midwife' was known for pioneering a scientific approach to midwifery and developing safer obstetrical forceps

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2019-05-05

Marie Antoinette and a Boar Hunt: Hunting was a popular sport in the 1700s, and there is at least one record of Marie Antoinette... https://t.co/xXLWelyzMa

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2019-04-30

Journée d’étude du GRHAM : « Le marché de l’art dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle : Expertises, négociations et controverses », , 5 juin 2019. Cf. https://t.co/UmYkFW0QGn

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2019-04-29

Thanks to Anne Haworth for her lecture where we discovered the secret of immortality, peento peaches. Shame they only ripen every 3000 years!

Xi Wangmu’s Peaches of Immortality. Yū Hi.

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2019-04-17

From All Things Georgian archives, 'Pretty in Pink' https://t.co/Fw7YniFcdQ

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2019-04-15