The Meteor of August 18, 1783, as seen from the East Angle of the North Terrace, Windsor Castle, Paul Sandby, https://t.co/qY2LpmnXk6 (Palette: 🖌🎨

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Path through the Village of Manen at Ede, 1783

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David Cox (Brtish, 1783-1859)
The cart.
Oil on panel,
9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (24.7 x 35.5 cm)
Private collection.

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A pair of paintings by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg in the Windermere Jetty Museum: “Belle Isle, Windermere, in a Calm” (1786) and same “in a Storm” (1785). De Loutherbourg had visited the Lakes in 1783, but these wild exaggerations were designed to delight a London audience

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in 1783, Master Coachbuilder James Ewer Cutten was born. The Cutten's had a coachbuilding business in St Pancras.
Here are a lovely selection of coachbuilders designs by the Cutten's

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Filled-in writing blank from 1783, commemorating the 'Engagement of the Royal Fleet under the command of Sir George Brydge Rodney'. Rodney was a naval commander in the American Revolutionary War: https://t.co/t8mg7sxEvX

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The American Cincinnatus, 1783、剣を鋤の刃へという国連本部にあるやつ。こっちはローマ起源で国連本部は聖書起源だからちょっと違うけどね。

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George Michael Moser.1706-1783. Hercules and the Hydra.

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María de las Nieves Micaela Fourdinier, esposa del pintor, en el año 1783.
Viste a la moda francesa de los últimos años del reinado de Luis XVI y se representa a través de una ventana, rodeada de flores.
Luis Paret y Álcazar,de padre francés y madre española.

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Reverend John Eagles (1783-1855)
Looking up Nightingale Valley (Bristol)
Watercolour
Bristol Museums.
Eagles wrote: 'Landscape...should be a poetical shelter from the world'.

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今日は モフ
1783年パリで行われた世界初の熱気球飛行実験が成功して熱気球が空を舞った日モフ
考案したのはフランスのモンゴルフィエ兄弟さんで、ある日煙突から煙が上がる様子に発想を得て煙を紙袋に閉じ込めることで浮力を得る可能性を思いついたモフよ
気持ちいいモフ💕

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誕生(1783・太陽暦換算、長州藩士)、#木戸孝允 没(1877、#桂小五郎)、小説 発刊(1897)、#ジョン・ウェイン 誕生(1907、俳優)、#フォード・モデルT 生産終了(1927)、#モンキー・パンチ 誕生(1937、漫画家)、つづく

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Plus historique, Marie Antoinette est représentée par Vigée Le Brun en 1783 portant une simple chemise, à l’époque cela choque tellement que le portrait est remplacé par un autre ou la reine porte une tenue plus « décente » appelé « Marie Antoinette à la rose »

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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

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Caricatures of parachutes and ballooning from Tissandier's Histoire des ballons et des aeronautes celebres 1783-1800 published 1887 https://t.co/I3eodbW6hN

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ジャック=ルイ・ダヴィッド『アンドロマケの悲嘆』1783年 ルーヴル美術館

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Miss Frances Mary Harford (1780-1783) from George Romney on

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February 4, 1783, worst in eight years kills some 50,000 in Calabria, Italy.
https://t.co/SlhQ64oiLp

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Noon: Prison hulks in Portsmouth Harbour
Oil on canvas
Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857)

From Rountree Tryon Galleries https://t.co/7QbmXnYICT

First introduced as a temporary measure in 1776, prison hulks were used throughout the British Empire until 1857!

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