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The loved to rib the Prince Regent as often and as cheekily as possible! “A view of the R-g-t's bomb" by Charles Williams, 1816, is more concerned with the Prince’s was enormous bum than the mortar he received from the Spanish after the Peninsula War.

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2020-06-21

Supreme tragedienne Sarah Siddons, queen of the late-Georgian English stage, was part of the great Kemble dynasty of actors:

https://t.co/rz3k2x5C4k


Gainsborough, 1785

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2020-06-20

She’s got a lot of front, as my gran would’ve said. Dollalolla, by Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, via the Tate. Dance-Holland produced a number of comical sketches after his retirement, and this is one of them.

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2020-06-19

“I don’t wear wigs, this is my hair.” In La brillante toillete de la Déesse du Gout, c.1775, a fashionable lady models a towering wig for her adoring macaroni as her maid prepares another! via the British Museum.

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2020-06-18

The Bum-Bailiff is outwitted by a canny lady who abandons her scaffolded frock to make good her escape! of 1786 via the British Museum.

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2020-06-17

For the lady who has everything, how about a personal puppet dandy? Cruikshank’s The English Ladies Dandy Toy, via the British Museum. gloriousgeorgians

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2020-06-16

A fashionable mama breastfeeds her baby in Friedrich Tischbein's Portrait of a Family, c.1795-1800, via Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel.

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2020-06-16

Born in 1692: English painter (1692-1780)

Portrait of Mrs. Sharpe and Her Child , 1731

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2020-06-13

Born in 1692: English painter (1692-1780)

Portrait of the Artist’s Wife Susanna, Son Anthony & Daughter Susanna , ca. 1728

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2020-06-13

Born in 1692: English painter (1692-1780)

Portrait of Henry Stebbing (1687-1763), 1757

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2020-06-13

Born in 1692: English painter (1692-1780)

Portrait of Mrs. Freeman Flower, 1747

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2020-06-13

Kurtan (DOS, 1989), a Soviet Sokoban-inspired game developed in the Georgian Republic by a "Soviet-American" (?) company Tbilisoft.
Features: Built-in puzzle solving in exchange for score, interconnected maps, protagonist has a hunger meter.

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2020-06-12

Harriet Martineau, sociologist, was born in 1802. She became "a great Lion in London, much patronized by Ld. Brougham who has set her to write stories on the poor Laws”.

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2020-06-12

When Lady Coventry (l) called Kitty Fisher (r) impertinent for carrying on with her husband, Lord Coventry, Kitty said she would "accept this insult because Maria was socially superior, but she was going to marry a Lord herself just to be able to answer back."

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2020-06-09

Born in 1757: (1757-1806), Duchess of Devonshire

Portrait as Diana by (1760-1838), ca. 1781-2

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2020-06-07

Born in 1757: (1757-1806), Duchess of Devonshire

Portrait by Thomas (1727-88), 1783

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2020-06-07

Born in 1757: (1757-1806), Duchess of Devonshire

Portrait with siblings Henrietta & George by (1741-1807), 1774

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2020-06-07

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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2020-06-07

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'False Rumps!' https://t.co/7yLkY09PPu

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2020-06-07

RT : New on All Things Georgian, 'Nathaniel Bentley, better known as ‘ Dirty Dick’' https://t.co/6PiW3268RH

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2020-06-06