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The Leicester Square panorama opened in London on May 25, 1793. Panoramas were a popular form of entertainment in the late 18th and early 19th centuries https://t.co/ov9Qc16ozc

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2019-05-26

Puce: a colour favored by Marie Antoinette & popular in the late 18thc/ early 19thc. Puce is French for flea; the colour is described as resembling congealed blood or a flea after it’s been crushed on white linen— a familiar shade in its heyday.

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2019-05-24

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

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

Octopus: a very small exhibit// 1. Mosaic, Isthmia, Greece 2. BANC MS UCB 085 (14th c) 3.Ulisse Aldrovandi, Animali, watercolor (16th c) 4. Ito Jakuchu (Japan, 18thc) 🎨 🖌️ ✏️ 🖊️

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2019-05-03

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

For Excerpts from poetry written by the daughter of and Louis XVI while she was imprisoned during the French Revolution:
"I was your king's daughter
separated from all my family..." https://t.co/O5NBvsWFuB

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2019-04-08

"The Swing" is a painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard and one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era. It depicts a young woman on a swing and a smiling young man watches her from a vantage point that allows him to see up into her dress.

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2019-04-02

The Cat’s Repast
by Gilles Antoine Demarteau (the Younger)
1778 or 1779
Maintained by the Art Institute of Chicago, but not on display

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2019-03-31

The second installment of The World of Thomas Turner, extracts from a rural 18thC diary, is up on in which our hero gets into a spot of bother after drinking at the Dorset Arms in Lewes.

Illustrations by the amazing

https://t.co/nx0mDWINY5

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2019-03-27

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

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2019-03-21

Spotlight on - Elizabeth Blackwell was a talented 18thc botanical artist who had a difficult life and an even more difficult husband, who she supported from debtors prison to accusations of high treason. Discover more: https://t.co/DegLmnANpf

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2019-03-08

Eccentric London dentist Martin Van Butchell rode his purple painted pony in Hyde Park on Sundays and displayed his embalmed wife in his surgery. Find out why at https://t.co/viU76fsKxo

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2019-03-01

A great curse and a great article title:
"Pox on Both Your Houses: The Battle of the Romeos"
by Leslie Ritchie (ECF 27.3-4 (2015)
https://t.co/WAbFljPz6b

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2019-02-28