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🐞 Piscium, serpentum, insectorum, aliorumque nonnullorum animalum nec non plantarum quarundam imagines:
[Germany]: Georgii Wolfgangi Knorrii, 1777 (
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Baptised #OnThisDay in 1727: English painter #ThomasGainsborough (1727-88)
Portrait of The Hon. Frances Duncombe, ca. 1777
#Gainsborough #BritishArt #Georgian
To celebrate #MuseumWeek, our staff are recreating art from our collections. To kick us off, here’s our dedicated Development Assistant, Alicia, channelling her inner John Crome. #CultureInQuarantineMW
'Portrait of John Crome (1768-1821)' by Michael William Sharp (1777=1840)
Born #OnThisDay in 1735: English painter #NathanielDanceHolland (1735-1811)
Portrait of Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), 1777
#DanceHolland #BritishArt #Georgian
"I bet you walked by a dandelion today... Dandelions are global citizens and global teachers." That taproot moves deep into the earth, bringing nutrients to the surface, into its leaves, flowers, and seeds. [Ill.: Flora Londinensis, vol. 1, 1777, via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries]
April 30, 1777, birthday of the German geophysicists German Carl Friedrich Gauß. Apart from his contributions to the field of mathematics, he studied also earth's geomagnetism 🧲 https://t.co/Prxgyl15KN
In the Defence of the French Princess, or the Painting of Hector and Andromache, 1792 by Richard Newton (1777-1798)
Hand-coloured etching
This is the first print to suggest that Britain might be about to go to war with Revolutionary France.
#MuseumFromHome #cartoonmuseum
Born #OnThisDay in 1776: #PrincessMary of the United Kingdom, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, daughter of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait with her sisters Sophia (1777-1848) & Amelia (1783-1810) by #JohnSingletonCopley (1738-1815), 1785
#Hanover #ChildrenInArt #Georgian
@LRuaEFXn9G1TL3E @Alcyone_viola Natale Schiavone (April 25, 1777 – April 15, 1858) was an Italian painter.
Thomas Gainsborough’s “Portrait of Anne, Countess of Chesterfield” (1777-78) @GettyMuseum #art #twitart @Folie_XVIIIeme
Born #OnThisDay in 1737: Scottish painter and engraver #DavidMartin (1737-97)
Portrait of Lord Chief Justice William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705-93), 1777
#ScottishArt #BritishArt #Georgian
26 mars 1783: mort d'Anna Rosina de Gasc, peintre allemande. Soeur d'Anna Dorothea Therbusch.
➡️Autoportrait d'Anna Rosina de Gasc.
➡️Autoportrait avec monocle, 1777, par Anna Dorothea Therbusch, née Liszewska (1721-1782), peintre allemande.
Gale, Johann Georg Wille, 1777 https://t.co/oLlUOB2jJ9 #johanngeorgwille #harvardartmuseums
1/4 President Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) and I are related. It’s true. Really. The 13th US President’s great-grandfather, Captain John Fillmore II (1701-1777), who lived in this house in Norwich, Connecticut, is also my great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather.