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The Good Samaritan - the second of Hogarth’s canvases for St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
The bearded Samaritan pours healing ointments onto the wounded and robbed Israelite 🙏🏻

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2018-02-12

Portrait of Jane Thornhill who Hogarth met as the daughter of his teacher Sir James Thornhill. He eloped with Jane and married, but did not have any children together.

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2018-02-03

For yr may I recommend an ECF essay or two?
Especially scintillating:
"Georgian Theatre in an Information Age: Media, Performance, Sociability," ed. Daniel O'Quinn and Gillian Russell
https://t.co/R5pHNH9Cys

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2017-11-03

Yr Sunday long read:
Mediating Richardson, an ECF special issue
ed. Louise Curran & Sören Hammerschmidt
https://t.co/4yxuyylnZ6

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2017-09-03

Wonderful engraving of 1783 - showing coal being transported down to keel boats waiting in the River Tyne

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2017-08-18