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Dr. Samuel Phillips Eady, a quack specialist in sexual health, certainly seems to get on well with his glamorous patients! "The Commercial Dandy and his sleeping partners", by George Cruikshank, 1821. #GloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection.
The Exquisite, Alias Dandy in Distress, is so buttoned up and laced in that he can't pick up his fallen kerchief! This image illustrates a letter from a correspondent (beneath the image) who has concerns about modern fashions... #gloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library.
Born #OnThisDay in 1735: English painter #NathanielDanceHolland (1735-1811)
Portrait of #Mari Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736-1807), ca. 1766-9
#DanceHolland #BritishArt #Georgian
Here’s something to try during #lockdown. “A lady - but a rakish one, Her lover’s breeches putting on!” #GloriousGeorgians via the Lewis Walpole Library.
Three friends of mine have revived the Hugh Walpole Society. There is a website with membership & conference details. The 'Review' is an attractive publication. & who could resist a conference in Keswick?
Today's British print @britishmuseum from a large volume of Thomas Gray's poems with amazingly inventive illustrations designed by Robert Bentley, etched by Johann Sebastian Muller. This is "Ode on the Death of [Horace Walpole's] Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes".
Happy news is always welcome, especially at times like these. We are delighted to announce the recipients of Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants at the Lewis Walpole Library for 2020-2021. https://t.co/udC65HC1he
Died #OnThisDay 18Mar1745 Sir Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain and although exact dates are debated, the period of 1721–42 is often used. He holds record as longest-serving Prime Minister in Britain. #primeminister #18thcentury
Between 1714 and 1721 there were 5 chancellors of the exchequer. In spring 1721 the role, combined with the office of 1st lord of the treasury, returned to Robert Walpole (who had held them before 1715-17).
He kept them for the next 21 years
#HistParl #Budget2020 #PrimeMinister
Horace Walpole–died #OTD 1797–"served his country, not by drudgery in the Exchequer & Customs, which paid him, but by transmitting to posterity an incomparable vision of England as it was in his day… the machinations of politicians & the turmoil of elections." Plus ça change.
Have you seen the latest blog post from 'All Things Georgian' by @sarahmurden? A compelling and insightful look at the 'Ladies of the Bon Ton', including sculptor Anne Seymour Damer, contemporary & friend of Horace Walpole.
Click to read here: https://t.co/bdwa9RmpnD
#shortread
Have you seen the latest blog post from 'All Things Georgian' by @sarahmurden? A compelling and insightful look at the 'Ladies of the Bon Ton', including sculptor Anne Seymour Damer, contemporary & friend of Horace Walpole.
Click to read here: https://t.co/bdwa9RmpnD
#shortread
Hey hey Chimeraheads!
Join us tonight for SteamSpell episode 21: The Spire of the First King as the Star-Touched take in the forces of Duke Osyrus Gedraan and see first hand the heresy going on within the spire.
Live on twitch at 7pm EST
ART: “knight” by Tyler Walpole
@Cambridge_Uni Horace Walpole was encouraged by the new parliamentary intake:
"The rising generation does give one some hopes... The young William Pitt has again displayed paternal oratory. The other day, on the commission of accounts, he answered Lord North & tore him limb from limb"
#HistParl
North had every reason to resent the success of the younger Pitt. In summer 1781 H Walpole had noted:
"The young William Pitt has again displayed paternal oratory. The other day... he answered Lord North & tore him limb from limb"
#HistParl #twitterstorians
"when the #Parliament does meet, I doubt, nay hope, it will make less sensation than usual"
Horace Walpole to the earl of Strafford, #November 1783
#HistParl
Alexander Pope commissioned this portrait of Henrietta, she was 35 when it was painted. It was later given to Horace Walpole, who displayed it at Strawberry Hill.
Find out more about Henrietta's fascinating life
https://t.co/Zo2dYqmWdF
Born #OnThisDay 1676 Robert Walpole, ?first #PrimeMinister of Great Britain. Over the years he acquired various epithets among them 'Leviathan' & 'Colossus'. On his fall from power he was made earl of Orford
https://t.co/pqoeFVVVJ0
#HistParl #twitterstorians
Grinling Gibbons died #onthisday in 1721. Walpole wrote of this master wood carver, "[Only Gibbons] gave wood the loose and airy lightness of flowers, and chained together the various productions of the elements with the free disorder natural to each species.” #gloriousGeorgians