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Eighteenth-century bathing machines https://t.co/Qa2OWFOUX7 via @sarahmurden #history #Georgian #bathing #18thCentury
Our textile team @TheBowesMuseum have been lucky enough to win a huge commercial job from @TullieHouse for their new #fashion gallery #2020opening The studio is #18thcentury heaven, we have a court mantua, a polonaise and an a l’anglaise. Watch progress over the year #staytuned
Thanks to Anne Haworth for her @TheArtsSociety_ lecture where we discovered the secret of immortality, peento peaches. Shame they only ripen every 3000 years!
#peaches #immortality #chinese #art #history #mythology #18thcentury #painting
Xi Wangmu’s Peaches of Immortality. Yū Hi.
From All Things Georgian archives, 'Pretty in Pink' https://t.co/Fw7YniFcdQ #18thcentury
For #NationalPoetryMonth. #history #18thcentury #poetry Excerpts from poetry written by the daughter of #MarieAntoinette 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
"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.
#arthistory #18thcentury #Rococo
The Reichenbach Case – Industrial Espionage at Boulton & Watt: https://t.co/Z7C56FwcM7
#18thcentury
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 #LibraryBlog #18thC #18thcentury
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
#readecf #18thcentury
Life at Sea in the Royal Navy of the 18th Century https://t.co/0SZuSEnbxn via @BBC #History #18thcentury #RoyalNavy
Watercolor created in 1790 by George Moutard Woodward that is titled "Preperations for a New Comedy" or "A Green Room in Town." @V_and_A #18thcentury #arthistory #watercolor
Born #OnThisDay 1717 David Garrick, actor & impresario, a key figure in reviving interest in the plays of #Shakespeare
#twitterstorians
#18thcentury
The ECF archive is stuffed with fascinating #MondayMemories
A curated special issue takes the guess-work out of searching.
The virtual issue on Propaganda is a sure thing:
https://t.co/fgP7Jr2pOj
#readecf #18thcentury
Today is Family Day in Ontario, so the ECF office is closed.
RT @joannemajor3: On All Things #Georgian we take a look at the Isherwoods, an #18thcentury brewing family from #Windsor.
https://t.co/mLJI9nYkea
11 Facts About Marie Antoinette You May Not Know https://t.co/fE3NlyOi56 #marieantoinette #wwwblogs #18thcentury
“Thank you... I thought it might be too much...?”
Was there such a thing as ‘too much’ for the eighteenth century gentleman when it came to choosing an impressive outfit?
Find out at our next lecture Tue 19th Feb @TheArtsSociety_ #18thcentury #georgian #fashionhistory #arts
While #18thcentury authors didn't describe a low mood as "the blues," they did write about melancholy:
At Seventeen: Adolescence in Sense and Sensibility
by Shawn Lisa Maurer
https://t.co/ABi6u4BUhQ
ECF 25.4 (2013)
#mondayblues
#readecf #austen #janeausten
On All Things #Georgian we take a look at the Isherwoods, an #18thcentury brewing family from #Windsor.
https://t.co/SxcwFbKTfW
Getting another #traveltuesday post in under the wire:
"The Vehicle of the Soul: Motion and Emotion in Vehicular It-Narratives"
by Sara Landreth
https://t.co/8p5OOreH3c
ECF 26.1, 2013
#readecf #18thcentury