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French #MasqueradeBall Costumes in the 1700 and 1800s - There are many descriptions of what people wore in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in France. Some of these descriptions were ... https://t.co/BMptlETQEz #18thcentury #19thcentury #costumes
Eye Candy for Today: Fragonard's La Bascule (the See-saw). For more info & ink to larger image, see my Lines and Colors post: https://t.co/BaydUvO3nJ #art #painting #frenchpainting #fragonard #18thcenturyart #18thcenturypainting #rococo
I’d like to dedicate my very first master study painting to @ContraPoints because: ✨Rococo Aesthetics ✨
#painting #digitalpainting #Photoshop #18thcentury
Visiting 2015 essays for today's ECF tweets:
"Pox on Both Your Houses: The Battle of the Romeos"
by Leslie Ritchie
https://t.co/WAbFljPz6b ECF 27.3-4 (2015)
#readecf #18thcentury #theaterhistory
In the course of the #18thcentury consumption of #sugar in England increased by an astonishing 2,500%
#SaturdayThoughts #twitterstorians
Many thanks to the 41 scholars who submitted essays so far in 2021. The ECF editors currently have 12 submissions under consideration, at various stages of the review process.
We're here! Please do send us your work:
https://t.co/XPG4qFgLaS
#AcWri #WhatWeDo #18thCentury
The Ways of the World https://t.co/zMNyD18cbe “Susie! That’s powerful wicked! God could strike you dead for speaking so!” < #London #Gloucester #18thCentury #BerkeleySeries
Decided to make Annaleigh a redhead instead of a blonde.
Fun fact, Scotland has the world's largest population of redheads; around 13 percent of the world!
#art #drawing #ArtistOnTwitter
#digitalart #digitaldrawing #photoshopart #historical #18thcentury #redhead #artshare
Born #OnThisDay 12Aug1762 future King #GeorgeIV at St. James's Palace. He married his cousin Princess Caroline of Brunswick but it was unhappy as he had secretly contracted a marriage w/Maria Fitzherbert that was invalid because his father never consented. #18thcentury
Cashmere Shawls in the 1700 and 1800s - Cashmere shawls were first introduced in Europe around the late 1700s. Joan Hart, a textile expert of today, wrote: “The artist Elizabeth Vigee ... https://t.co/ljsIUizKF0 #shawls #18thcentury #19thcentury
A French privateer, originally built as a polacca, was to serve under the flags of four nations in just 8 years. She fought her most remarkable action as the #RoyalNavy brig-of-war HMS Transfer in 1799. Click: https://t.co/1GIwnPpAOw #NavalHistory #Napoleonic #18thCentury
Anecdotes about the Woman Known as Madame de Staël - There are many anecdotes about the woman known as #MadamedeStaël. Born Anne Louise Germaine Necker in Paris, France, but of Swiss origin, ... https://t.co/imgxT2TxTs #FrHist #18thcentury
Peter Williamson aka “Indian Peter” of the #18thCentury - Peter Williamson, also known as “#IndianPeter,” was a Scottish memoirist who was part showman, part entrepreneur and inventor. He ... https://t.co/r17bG9aD6J #SundayBlogShare
Peter Williamson aka “Indian Peter” of the #18thCentury - Peter Williamson, also known as “Indian Peter,” was a Scottish memoirist who was part showman, part entrepreneur and inventor. He was ... https://t.co/6X1UeCTLfH #IndianPeter #wwwblogs
#OnThisDay 19Jun1767 the Beast of Gévaudan is killed by Jean Chastel. #beastofgevauden #18thcentury #folklore https://t.co/ewcWgMArwu
Hyde Park: Interesting Incidents in the 1700s - #HydePark was established by Henry VIII in 1536 and opened to the public in 1637 where it quickly became popular. Major improvements to the park ... https://t.co/vuNLtznk50 #18thcentury #SundayBlogShares
Hyde Park: Interesting Incidents in the 1700s - #HydePark was established by Henry VIII in 1536 and opened to the public in 1637 where it quickly became popular. Major improvements to the park ... https://t.co/nytHMsyNsD #18thcentury #UKHist
I had a lot of fun with this one, it's so deliciously colourful 😍 I put a historical twist on it since that's my niche 😏
#artist #art #artwork #drawing #painting #illustration #digitalart #draw #18thcentury #history
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Master of Miniatures, Pastels, and Oils - Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was the youngest of eight children. She was born in 1749 in Paris to a bourgeois haberdasher. As an adolescent ... https://t.co/zWbiRiKhRU #MondayBlogs #18thcentury
Happy #InternationalTeaDay! Introduced to England in the 1650s, tea sales of the British East India Company at the end of the #18thCentury — at 20m lbs. — were 400 times as much as at the beginning of the century.
From our BOTANY OF EMPIRE exhibit: https://t.co/368tP9v1Jz