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A Proposed Tax Bill Targets 27-Year-Old Spinsters...And Their Cats! https://t.co/aPQif6Aw1J'
'those women who refused offers of marriage in order to remain independent or to keep control of their own money and property.'

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2018-06-11

Happy weekend!
Left: The Rake at Oxford, or A Consultation of Physicians (sketch) which could be an abandoned first thought for the opening scene of A Rake’s Progress.

Right: The official plate 1 of A Rake’s Progress by

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2018-06-09

From the blog archives of All Things Georgian - 18th Century 'Flying Machines' https://t.co/WjppfA5mVB

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2018-06-09

Born 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL

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2018-06-07

The Ascension Altarpiece, Triptych for St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol.

These 3 pieces depict the story of the resurrection of Christ after the crucifixion, and his ascension to heaven forty days later 🌤

Each quoting texts from the King James Bible.

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2018-06-06

Another excellent Reflections essay in ECF issue 30.3:
“The Wonders of Medicine in Literary Education”: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Hysteria, by Heather Meek
https://t.co/oB6jYEpgDO

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2018-05-18

Théroigne de Méricourt and Charlotte Vanhove: The Political Activist and the Actress https://t.co/OfOJq2vQ4l

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2018-05-15

Furry Fridays is back! 🐶

This week we feature the furry friend that is the spaniel in ‘Before’ and ‘After’ by

Protecting his owner at all times!

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2018-05-11

Stuck for something to do today?

Here is The Fishing Party - possibly Lady Sunderland and her Son John Sutton 🐟

This version was painted over a more reduced earlier piece and has been reworked many times.

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2018-04-28

Charity in the Cellar painted by (left) and drawn by Richard Livesay after Hogarth (right).

The group vowed not to leave until they had drunk a hogshead of claret. While it seems they are mimicking the sculpted statue on the far right!

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2018-04-23

Twenty-first-century recreation of Marie Antoinette's dress from 1778-1789 that is like the one in her 1775 d’Agoty portrait.

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2018-04-14

In the new ECF issue, 30.3:
Dryden's Georgic Fictionality, by Katarina O'Briain, Johns Hopkins U.
https://t.co/LMcShHNa27
See abstract in the picture:

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2018-04-12

The Pool of Bethesda which forms part of the staircase decoration of Bartholomew Hospital. It sits alongside The Good Samaritan, reflecting the hospital's caring for the sick.

The people seen at the Pool are said to be modelled on real patients!

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2018-04-04

Francis Grose (1731–91) published the most extensive series of illustrations of ancient monuments.
1000 plates with accompanying descriptions appeared in the 10 volumes of The Antiquities of England and Wales https://t.co/glePhkGwCf

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2018-03-25

It’s National Puppy Day! Hogarth loved to paint dogs in his paintings, including pugs. Here are some cute pups by

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2018-03-23

The Mackinen Children - William and Elizabeth.

The sunflower is a symbol of loyalty - it always faces toward the sun, the anomaly here - the other flowers behind are turning away from the main one.

Symbols of honouring both political sides?

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2018-03-12

The chatelaine attached to Mary Edwards’ waist has a couple of interpretations:

1. Carries keys and tools necessary for a woman managing her own household.

2. The watch may be a ‘memento mori’ recognising her approaching death!

Thoughts?

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2018-03-01