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Posing For Posterity: Pompeo Batoni and The Grand Tour https://t.co/QaWaYzhLCN < #18thCentury #Georgian #art #GrandTour #travel #Italy
You can find ECF on Project MUSE:
Plebeianizing the Female Soldier: Radical Liberty and /The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies/, by Fraser Easton https://t.co/6qpzzvOzqb
#ReadECF #18thCentury
Women’s Accessories in the 1700s - Women’s #accessories were the fashion item that completed their look, and in the eighteenth century, there were plenty of accessories for a woman to use or wear ... https://t.co/yjrI5cXte9 #SundayBlogShare #18thcentury
Because it's Tuesday: reposting the Material Fictions articles, this one from Part 2.
#ReadECF #18thCentury
Soft Materiality: Dress and Material Fiction in T.S. Surr's /A Winter in London/
by Timothy Campbell https://t.co/FoYsLm5dgy
Shaping The Past https://t.co/WgY9q73m5u 'The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.' Anthony Beevor #historical #authors #amwriting #18thCentury #19thCentury #biographical #histfic
tw: clowns/blood
clowning around right now¿? 🤡 [rts are very pog!]
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#artph #art #ArtistonTwitter #digitalart #digitalillustration #clowns #18thcentury
This beautiful sheet shows the metamorphosis of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) that a century later would become an #invasivespecies. It was made by the Dutch naturalist Johannes le Francq van Berkhey. #Butterflies #Archives #VanBerkhey collection #SciArt #18thCentury #NatHist
Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an #18thcentury #politician in 6 movements
#HistParl #twitterstorians
RT @AntoineVanner: Captain Arthur Gardiner felt dishonoured by association with disgraced Admiral Byng. In 1758, commanding HMS Monmouth he cleared his name in battle with one of the most powerful French ships afloat. https://t.co/ahVzPcQroB #NavalHistory #18thCentury
Captain Arthur Gardiner felt dishonoured by association with disgraced Admiral Byng. In 1758, commanding HMS Monmouth he cleared his name in battle with one of the most powerful French ships afloat. Click: https://t.co/cx1W5f35Hr #NavalHistory #18thCentury #MaritimeHistory
After execution of Admiral Byng in 1757 his flag-captain, Arthur Gardiner, felt dishonoured. Commanding HMS Monmouth in 1758 he cleared his name in battle with one of France's most powerful French ships. Click: https://t.co/cx1W5f35Hr #NavalHistory #18thCentury #MaritimeHistory
@poob2016 Definitely caricatured, but satirists in the #18thcentury often depicted postilions wearing enormous boots.
@historymatt may have more insights.
"that some of our ministers can neither dance nor sing, would not be a reproach to them, if they had but somebody with them that could": #18thcentury guidance on #diplomacy suggesting all political negotiations should conclude with a dance-off?
#HistParl #tuesdaymotivations
#18thcentury diplomats were human: in 1727 Lord Waldegrave wrote from Paris to his contact back in #London hoping that his last dispatch "did not show the influence of #champagne"
#thursdayvibes #twitterstorians #HistParl
Happy #MarbledMonday! This placard patterned paper is from our 1774 edition of the The Seasons, written by James Thomson.
#MarbledPaper #18thcentury #poetry #RareBooks #SpecialCollections https://t.co/O19KDVTxJv
Playing around with a traditional illustration style.
#digitalart #digitalillustration #digitaldrawing #illustration #drawing #cartoon #2dart #adobephotoshop #wacom #wacomart #wolf #books #reading #minuteman #muskets #colonialamerica #18thcentury #wild #wildlife
My study of Labille-Guiards work.
#digitalart #digitalillustration #digitaldrawing #illustration #drawing #digitalportraiture #AdélaïdeLabilleGuiard #18thcenturyart #digitaloilpainting #frenchart