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Plates from William Smellie's 'Theory and Practice of Midwifery' (1752). Smellie, a Lanarkshire-born 'man-midwife' was known for pioneering a scientific approach to midwifery and developing safer obstetrical forceps

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2019-05-05

Octopus: a very small exhibit// 1. Mosaic, Isthmia, Greece 2. BANC MS UCB 085 (14th c) 3.Ulisse Aldrovandi, Animali, watercolor (16th c) 4. Ito Jakuchu (Japan, 18thc) 🎨 🖌️ ✏️ 🖊️

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2019-05-03

Marie Antoinette and a Boar Hunt: Hunting was a popular sport in the 1700s, and there is at least one record of Marie Antoinette... https://t.co/xXLWelyzMa

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2019-04-30

The Earl of Coventry's Celebrated Courtesan - Kitty Fisher https://t.co/fmH4Sn810d via

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2019-04-30

Journée d’étude du GRHAM : « Le marché de l’art dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle : Expertises, négociations et controverses », , 5 juin 2019. Cf. https://t.co/UmYkFW0QGn

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2019-04-29

Our textile team have been lucky enough to win a huge commercial job from for their new gallery The studio is heaven, we have a court mantua, a polonaise and an a l’anglaise. Watch progress over the year

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2019-04-24

Wedding season is coming up - a throwback to the 18thc. w/Rebecca Tailer (silk design by 1747 worn in 19thc alters. but condition is excellent ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁦⁩

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2019-04-20

Thanks to Anne Haworth for her lecture where we discovered the secret of immortality, peento peaches. Shame they only ripen every 3000 years!

Xi Wangmu’s Peaches of Immortality. Yū Hi.

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2019-04-17

Yes, of course I had to have a present for me from my purchases. A pair of 18thC French steel scissors designed as legs.

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2019-04-16

From All Things Georgian archives, 'Pretty in Pink' https://t.co/Fw7YniFcdQ

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2019-04-15

For Excerpts from poetry written by the daughter of and Louis XVI while she was imprisoned during the French Revolution:
"I was your king's daughter
separated from all my family..." https://t.co/O5NBvsWFuB

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2019-04-08

Elizabeth Catlett's (1963) sculpture honouring the 18thc first published African-American female poet, Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) who was enslaved at the age of 7 after being kidnapped and brought to the US from West Africa

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2019-04-06

"The Swing" is a painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard and one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era. It depicts a young woman on a swing and a smiling young man watches her from a vantage point that allows him to see up into her dress.

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2019-04-02

The Cat’s Repast
by Gilles Antoine Demarteau (the Younger)
1778 or 1779
Maintained by the Art Institute of Chicago, but not on display

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2019-03-31

The second installment of The World of Thomas Turner, extracts from a rural 18thC diary, is up on in which our hero gets into a spot of bother after drinking at the Dorset Arms in Lewes.

Illustrations by the amazing

https://t.co/nx0mDWINY5

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2019-03-27

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

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2019-03-21

Spotlight on - Elizabeth Blackwell was a talented 18thc botanical artist who had a difficult life and an even more difficult husband, who she supported from debtors prison to accusations of high treason. Discover more: https://t.co/DegLmnANpf

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2019-03-08