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On All Things Dido Elizabeth Belle's mother in plus we reveal new information about Dido's siblings.
https://t.co/0uIoE0XCIj

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2018-06-28

First - George II and Family in a Park (sketch) and second - ‘Kent’s Temple on a Mount in Richmond Gardens’

A projected conversation piece of the royal family that was never completed, and remained in studio.

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2018-06-19

HRH William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, as a Boy. (1732)

The youngest and favourite son of George II and Queen Caroline, painted in Hogarth’s nearly successful effort to gain the favour of the royal family 👸🏻🤴🏻

18thcentury

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2018-06-18

18thc rules for apprentice surgeons: He shall not reveal his master's secrets...diseases of patients...not commit the filthy Crime of Fornication...nor play any games whatsover...nor go to Ale houses...not be guilty of raising any Tumults within the town of Edinburgh

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2018-06-13

A Proposed Tax Bill Targets 27-Year-Old Spinsters...And Their Cats! https://t.co/aPQif6Aw1J'
'those women who refused offers of marriage in order to remain independent or to keep control of their own money and property.'

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2018-06-11

Happy weekend!
Left: The Rake at Oxford, or A Consultation of Physicians (sketch) which could be an abandoned first thought for the opening scene of A Rake’s Progress.

Right: The official plate 1 of A Rake’s Progress by

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2018-06-09

From the blog archives of All Things Georgian - 18th Century 'Flying Machines' https://t.co/WjppfA5mVB

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2018-06-09

Born 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL

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2018-06-07

The Ascension Altarpiece, Triptych for St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol.

These 3 pieces depict the story of the resurrection of Christ after the crucifixion, and his ascension to heaven forty days later 🌤

Each quoting texts from the King James Bible.

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2018-06-06

Another excellent Reflections essay in ECF issue 30.3:
“The Wonders of Medicine in Literary Education”: Teaching Eighteenth-Century Hysteria, by Heather Meek
https://t.co/oB6jYEpgDO

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2018-05-18

Théroigne de Méricourt and Charlotte Vanhove: The Political Activist and the Actress https://t.co/OfOJq2vQ4l

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2018-05-15

Furry Fridays is back! 🐶

This week we feature the furry friend that is the spaniel in ‘Before’ and ‘After’ by

Protecting his owner at all times!

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2018-05-11

Stuck for something to do today?

Here is The Fishing Party - possibly Lady Sunderland and her Son John Sutton 🐟

This version was painted over a more reduced earlier piece and has been reworked many times.

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2018-04-28

Charity in the Cellar painted by (left) and drawn by Richard Livesay after Hogarth (right).

The group vowed not to leave until they had drunk a hogshead of claret. While it seems they are mimicking the sculpted statue on the far right!

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2018-04-23

Illustrations of Ebenezer Sibly, an 18thc physician, astrologer and occultist. Sibly was famed for his prediction of American independence, although he only published this 9 years after the event. Always a good trick to predict something after it has happened (a la

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2018-04-19

There's an 18thC caricature for almost every occasion; we'd love to see some of your favourites/ go to images!
To kick things off, here's one of the Duchess of Devonshire, called "Political Affection"

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2018-04-14

Twenty-first-century recreation of Marie Antoinette's dress from 1778-1789 that is like the one in her 1775 d’Agoty portrait.

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2018-04-14