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Bedford Coffee House: A Popular Spot Edit - Located in the north-west corner, under the Piazza in Covent Garden, Bedford Coffee House was supposedly modeled on Button’s Coffee House. Bedford’s was ... https://t.co/UvfF0bMTbr #Bedfordcoffee #18thcentury #18thc
Thomas Lawrence painted this portrait of Irish poet Catherine Grey in the guise of #Juno, hence the peacock (1794, @ClevelandArt). However, she rejected it & it never sold when he exhibited it at the Royal Academy later that year.
#HECAA #arthistory #18thcentury #portraiture
ECF Spring 2020 (32.2) drops in April, and I cannot stop thinking abt the great articles in that issue:
"Plebeianizing the Female Soldier: Radical Liberty and The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies"
by Fraser Easton
#18thcentury #readecf https://t.co/bzNRfGLQUP
While Spring 2020 is not due until April, I cannot stop thinking about the great articles that will run in that issue, including:
"Robinson Crusoe and the Earthy Ground"
by James Robert Wood
#18thcentury #readecf https://t.co/bzNRfGLQUP
Though we weren't lucky enough to find a #FourLeafClover 🍀in our collections for #StPatricksDay, here are lovely watercolor leaves in our French herbarium manuscript, possibly #18thCentury. Explore this & 100+ other digitized #RareBooks: https://t.co/RQDOj5jPQ0.
#MuseumFromHome
Madame Récamier’s Bedroom: A Masterpiece - Everyone wanted to see Madame Récamier’s #bedroom at her house located in the Chaussée d’Antin that had once belonged to Jacques Necker, minister to Louis XVI. The ... https://t.co/x4A4t2NiQm #19thc #18thc
Madame Récamier’s Bedroom: A Masterpiece - Everyone wanted to see #MadameRécamier’s bedroom at her house located in the Chaussée d’Antin that had once belonged to Jacques Necker, minister to Louis XVI. The ... https://t.co/wsGDPTUUf2 #18thcentury #19thcentury
Portrait of the notorious #18thcentury highwayman James McLaine, bust-length, standing and looking to left, wearing hat, short wig, open jacket, waistcoat, and neckerchief tied in a bow; in an oval. #highwaymen #robbers
Doctoring the Ladies: Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world https://t.co/y4JqdYR7vx via @HistoryToday #history #HERstory #18thcentury #education
Detail, Linen Market, Agostino Brunias, late 18th century #vastearlyamerica #agostinobrunias #drums #music #parasol #dominica #caribbean #caribbeanart #antilles #lesserantilles #westindies #ilessouslevent #colonialamerica #18thcentury #painting #arthisto… https://t.co/d9UBRAnbfv
Died #OnThisDay 26Feb1789 Famous #racehorse Eclipse. He was unbeaten, won 18 races, and had amazing proportions. Eclipse was also termed a “thick-winded horse, and puffed and roared so as to be heard at a considerable distance.” https://t.co/4EAeAof0K0 #18thcentury
i want to draw some boobies.
@NK_asperako #ineffable18thcentury #GoodOmensFanArt
Jean-Baptiste Vanloo's painting shows an elegant hunting party of the type enjoyed by Louis XV and his court. This oil sketch is a study for a picture painted in 1737 for Louis XV's dining room at the Château de Fontainebleau. #vanloo #louisxv #18thcentury
Absolutely loved the Georgians: #PrideandPrejudice exhibition @worcestermuseum with @becky_wilks today. Our favourite things all in one place 😍
#janeausten #18thcentury #costume
“If it does, then we might employ your grandfather’s plan to remove mine from these shores. Transportation to the Americas, was it not?”
“What a capital notion!” https://t.co/w27F9yBBSv #historical #18thCentury
The Bottle Conjuror of 1749 - On 16 January 1749, at the New Theater in Haymarket, an anonymous person known as the “#BottleConjuror” or “Bottle Conjurer” was set to perform a variety of amazing feats at six-thirty ... https://t.co/1JzWJWwETD #18thcentury
Women, art and science have always worked together. 18thC Mary Somerset drew beautiful succulents she brought to Britain for first time. The one in your sitting room originated here. See at pioneering #BritishBaroque exhibitn @Tate Britain opening tmrw #WomenInSTEM #WomenInCircus
Pirate copies of work is nothing new. Find out how it was dealt with in the #18thCentury at our Annual Lecture taking place this month.
Book your #free place now!
https://t.co/9rX9AmYhA1
#LecturesLondon #Publication
"He cast off a certain damsel of the Court there and then. If Mary was Perdita, he was to be Florizel. But, of late, I fancy there’s a change in the wind. Mrs Robinson takes her position a shade too seriously..." https://t.co/odeDJUSCCN #18thcentury #London
The Phrygian Cap or the Cap of Liberty: The phrygian cap — a soft, conical, brimless cap from antiquity — came to be associated with freedom and was adopted as the “Cap of Liberty” during the #FrenchRevolution. It was first used ... #capofliberty #18thcentury