Portrait of Jane Thornhill who Hogarth met as the daughter of his teacher Sir James Thornhill. He eloped with Jane and married, but did not have any children together.

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Captain Nicholas Brown Seabrook Polly Seabrook (1739-1790), privateer and master of Seabrook Plantation, Hanover County, Virginia, the Payne Limner, 1784 https://t.co/ET6aSVblXI

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Posthumous portrait of Betsy Seabrook (1780-1783) of Seabrook Plantation, Hanover County, Virginia, the Payne Limner, 1784 https://t.co/St5JRPW1EG

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The Marriage - Plate 5 from the depicting Tom Rakewell. Here, he marries an old woman for her fortune in Marylebone church which was well-known then for clandestine weddings. Tom is more interested in the maid than his one-eyed bride!

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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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From 's great show, I love how 18thC Mexican painting is rich with narratives (plural). This is an Andrés López.

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Why is there so much text in 18thC Mexican painting? 's Ilona Katzew on her exhib, one of the shows of the year. https://t.co/vO2fr74A1Y
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From the blog archives of All Things Georgian 'Pretty in Pink' https://t.co/Fw7YniFcdQ

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From the blog archives of All Things Georgian 'Kissing under the mistletoe at the North Pole in 1830' https://t.co/NgMkJJAq9O

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More gambols, this time quoting Milton: ‘Whilst Romp loving Miss is haul’d about/ With gallantry robust’

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& "Interiör med familj på sju personer"/Intérieur avec une famille de sept personnes par Pehr Hörberg (1746-1816)
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