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Head of Collections Helen loves cream teas and recommends Dutton's on the fortified seafront at overlooking the site of this rather dramatic event from 1796, captured here by Nicholas Pocock in 1811

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2020-06-25

Pierre Narcisse Guérin
(French painter 1774-1833).

Morpheus and Iris 1811

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2020-06-14

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author and abolitionist, born June 14, 1811.

"In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's."

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2020-06-14

5/9. The final line, the termaktub, with the date and place of writing, was often calligraphically impressive: examples here from letters to Raffles from Johor, Siak, Palembang and Aceh in 1811 https://t.co/Qu4j6Mu9MM ATG

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2020-06-12

Writing my upcoming thesis chapter will be interesting in the current context. The two contests between Tom Cribb and Tom Molineaux in 1810 and 1811, were racially loaded encounters, with the laurels of the championship, and racial pride at stake.

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2020-06-11

Flatford Mill from a Lock on the Stour, 1811

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2020-06-07

Morning in the Sudeten Mountains, 1811

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2020-05-26

This acquisition adds to our Gainsborough family portraits including two magical double portraits of Margaret & Mary (NG3812 & NG1811). There's another portrait of the sisters from late 1750s (pic 3) 2/

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2020-05-21

Peter Francis Lewis Bourgeois (November 1753 – 8 January 1811) was a British painter

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2020-05-19

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), 1777

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2020-05-09

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti, 1759-60

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2020-05-08

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Tobias Smollet (1721-71), ca. 1764

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2020-05-08

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Portrait of Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736-1807), ca. 1766-9

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2020-05-08

Born in 1735: English painter (1735-1811)

Self-portrait, ca. 1773

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2020-05-08

A Lesson in Politeness, May 6th 1811 -Old git placed in a tricky situation: "I am sorry to intrude in this abrupt manner, but do you know Sir you are in bed with my Wife?"
Lover: "I beg ten thousand pardons... she shall be at your service in the course of half an hour!"

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2020-05-06

Flatford Mill from a Lock on the Stour, 1811

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2020-05-04

From Yarmouth to Wales
A satire that the Prince Regent tried to suppress after news that his sprained ankle from 'dancing' at Oatlands in autumn 1811 was in fact the result of a spat with Lord Yarmouth, who reportedly booted him right up the arse for trying it on with his missus.

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2020-05-03

Throwing my best Regency "hats" in the ring for themed today. Here's some outrageous headgear in the shape of dragons, ships, ostrich feathers and lightning bolts: 'Lumps of Pudding', a cartoon from 1811 by William Heath after HW Bunbury

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2020-05-01