Bronzen beeld van keizer op het marktplein van Barletta, 1778 https://t.co/lUIg1zs94B

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Kennismaking met matrozen van de Speronares schepen afkomstig uit Malta bij Catanië, 1778 https://t.co/tDQSBPOb8o

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Oponthoud bij de Grotte delle Capre aan de grens bij Nemorosa en Fredda, 1778 https://t.co/sXTSGUPjrj

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18 Jul 1778 Andrustown, NY Chief Joseph Brant’s Mohawks attack & burn the settlement – massacring some of the inhabitants.

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View of the Piazza della Rotonda, Rome, with the Pantheon, obelisk. date; 1760-1778 photo; absolute research

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There's a third version that Copley painted four years after the original 1778 pieces. I believe it's in a museum in Detroit (guess I'm heading there next).

And, of course, the fourth and final copy...

Read more about this fascinating painting here: https://t.co/AgSewnrz3p

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Watson, saved from the shark, went on to live a long life (was Lord Mayor of London!) tho absent a leg. Painted in 1778 by John Singleton Copley, whose day is today.

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7/3はパリで悲劇があった日です…

命日(1778)。
実はヴォルフガングのパリ行きは父に急かされたものでした…

が息子 と引き離された日(1793)。
母子は二度と会えず3か月後に母は処刑、子は虐待の限りを尽くされました…

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June 28th, 1778, Battle of Monmouth, and the legend of Molly Pitcher. A sweltering day, more British troops were killed by heat stroke than musket fire as Mary Ludwig (Molly Pitcher) was on the pitch, running pitchers of refreshing water to thirsty Continental troops.

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John Singleton Copley, The Collapse of the Earl of Chatham in the House of Lords, 7 July 1778, 1779 https://t.co/QJ49hSpZrP

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