Le cauchemar de Füssli , 1790/1791

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''Lady Hamilton as Ariadne'' by Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1790).

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FUSELI'S PUCK (c.1790) has bat wings rather than butterfly wings; his enchantments are far from innocent. The other fairies flee in this image where he is full of movement. He boasts he can 'put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes' (MSND)

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An Alp is a supernatural being in German folklore. It is sometimes likened to a vampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. The word Alp is the German form of the word that comes into English as 'elf'.
'The Nightmare', by Henry Fuseli, between 1790-1791

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今日は仏さんのお誕生日です
Bon anniversaire!!
イラストは「ブログのような竹林2号機」様仏記念日イラストよりお借りしました:https://t.co/p0kJ6Q0v0T

※Fête de la Fédération(1790年7月14日連盟祭)と仏国民祭について:https://t.co/FQJW8ozc9s

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I’m having a very slow day today - how about you?

Common garden snails from George Shaw’s ‘Naturalists miscellany’ with by Frederick Polydore Nodder (1790)

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Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger.1715-1790. Academic Study of Two Men.1774.

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“Lady with her Pets,” probably Molly Wales Fobes (1772-1801) of Raynham, Massachusetts, painted by Rufus Hathaway in 1790 https://t.co/ooiXYcuvVH

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➡️Artiste peignant le portrait d'une musicienne, vers 1790
➡️Marguerite Gérard, F. Dumont
1793, miniature sur ivoire
➡️La Lecture, vers 1795.
Marguerite Gérard (1761-1837), artiste peintre frçse
1775: apprentissage chez sa sœur et son beau-frère le peintre Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

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Александр
Блинков
«Сражение
у
острова
Тендра 28-29
августа 1790
года»
アレクサンドル・ブリンコフ【テンドラ島の会戦】(1955)

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The Provost's House and Trinity College, by Thomas Malton c.1790

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Margaret Meen (1755-1824) was an English watercolour artist and teacher.⠀
In 1790 she published “Exotic plants from the Royal Gardens at Kew” in 1790. https://t.co/jp7ibDvQJj

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Look at this! So good! He’s not at all afraid to get right in there, and the robes and faces, so characteristic of Utamaro! Both shunga here are by Utamaro and are polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Date unsure, but probably around 1790

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Happy birdday Twitter!

IJsvogels / Kingfishers
by Stephanus Hendrik Willem van Trigt (1790-1840)

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Александр
Блинков
«Сражение
у
острова
Тендра 28-29
августа 1790
года»
アレクサンドル・ブリンコフ【テンドラ島の会戦】(1955)

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Sarah Stone (1760-1844) produced all 65 of the beautiful plates in "Journal of a voyage to New South Wales" (John White, 1790), many depicting new species. https://t.co/LSX91UEqev via &

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Watercolor created in 1790 by George Moutard Woodward that is titled "Preperations for a New Comedy" or "A Green Room in Town."

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A Disabled Black Flower-Seller Carts his Wares Through Town
England (c. 1790)
Hand-coloured stipple engraving on paper
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
https://t.co/fFxDOnJIbV

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