Born in 1758: Scottish painter (1758-1840)

Portrait of Eleanor and Margaret Ross, 1785-90

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Portrait of Anne-Félicité Grésille, 1785, by (French, 1761-1818), who was born (Sept 6). Held at ; source, https://t.co/vssM0pxHrJ

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His double-portrait of the Gisbornes is a sophisticated essay in greens, an early depiction of a brolly & an authentic image of middle-aged love. Dovedale by Moonlight (1785), Penelope unraveling her Web (1785), the Lady In Melton’s Comus (1785) & Thomas & Mary Gisborne (1786)

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His portraits set out not to flatter but to record. They investigate with a keen eye & give us a sense of the generation who would change the world. Erasmus Darwin (1782-3), Self-Portrait (1782-5), The Corinthian Maid (1782-5) & A Cottage on Fire At Night (1785-93)

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Born in 1753: (1753-1810), Countess of Provence as spouse of the future daughter of of Sardinia

Portrait by (1745-1826), ca. 1785

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❄ Arctic zoology . .
London: Printed by Henry Hughs, 1784-1785.
https://t.co/YQrIk12x02

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I found a pair of PURRates today. ;) 1785

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1785. 소울아크 - 옥정진인

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Engraving of the creation of the planets - surrounded by angels, God points toward a succession of spheres & flames; illustration to the Spanish trans of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle', c.1785-1804 by Fernando Selma & Mariano Salvador Maella
https://t.co/5Vmhhv8B0b

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Westminster school. or - Dr Busby settling accounts with Master-Billy and his playmates (1785)
露骨な風刺画。しかし状況を非常にうまく表現しています。このお仕置きは当時の名門校では頻繁に行われていたようですね。

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Au musée Bernard d’Agesci de Niort
▶️ Alexis Grimou, Le marquis d’Artaguiette en buveur, 1720
▶️ JM Nattier, Madame Adélaïde en Diane, 1745
▶️ CA Coypel, Athalie et Joas, 1747
▶️ Bernard d’Agesci, L’enlèvement d’Europe, vers 1785-1788

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Just finished recording another podcast. One for my fellow Pteridomaniacs - lots of lovely ferns! Illustration from Lindley Library - entitled Polypodium cristatum, , from James Bolton: Filices Britannicae. Leeds/Halifax: 1785-1790.

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From 'The Birds of America' (1840-44) by John James Audubon (1785-1851). American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. Audubon identified 25 new species.

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Lithograph. Original hand coloring
Painting by Charles Bird King (1785-1862)
Published in: "History of the Indian Tribes of North America"
Authors: Thomas Loraine McKenny (1785-1859) and James Hall (1793-1868)
Folio edition
Sheet size 46 x 34 cm

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Died in 1801: English painter (1747-1801)

Portrait of Henry Addington, Later 1st Viscount Sidmouth, 1785-6

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Died in 1801: English painter (1747-1801)

Portrait of The Saithwaite Family, ca. 1785

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Another shameful type of enslavement that blighted the streets of during the Georgian era - A showman tugging at the chained muzzle of a 'dancing' bear, June 25th 1785

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Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785-1847) Faust in the study room, 1829

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