# stuartssaturday babylossawarenessweek 17thcentury 17thcenturymasterpiece otd navy

Mouse-skin eyebrows!
I know big brows are fashionable and often need a bit of help. But😱
Please don't bring these back! On squeak is not on fleek
(Here's a BBC recreation of the mouse-brow https://t.co/S2dXWnFHQO)
(ter Borch, Detroit Inst of Arts)

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2023-03-11

I quite like this detail from a 1623 print. Fawkes's accomplice is a spotty demon/duck/dog/frog creature (with a cardinal hat?) whilst the guards are brought to the plotter by an angel with no anthropomorphic elements. Classic!

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2022-11-05

It is Organisations like & can help, but, for some (like me), history can provide some solace. For let us remember the Stuart-era families who also suffered these tragic losses.

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2022-10-16

A devoted and loving relationship was that of Oliver and Elizabeth Cromwell, married in 1620 and resulting in 9 children. The couple's few surviving letters are very tender, part of a close-knit family... Portaits in our collection 1/2

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2022-02-12

For the 14th of January, our is 'Two Ladies of the Lake Family', c.1660, by Sir Peter Lely. Tate.

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2022-01-14

William Berkeley, George Digby, Lord Willoughby, Leonard Calvert and James Hind.
Montrose and Henry Vane, too, but I'm pretty sure they'd decline the invite.

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2021-12-11

Charles I didn't call his English parliament in the 1630s but his Irish parliament met in 1634. Nice bit of an aul' procession to & .

The creator of this print had an eye to Wentworth's demise...


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2021-11-21

Pocahontas and John Rolfe. Tragic, fascinating, the subject of endless debate and controversy, but indubitably one of the most important of the era.

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2021-10-31

Hear ye! 'Tis time for
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, son of James II (VII) & Arabella Churchill, was decapitated by a cannonball 12 June 1734.
This week's theme:
💀😱😖Grisly Stuart Ends😖😱💀

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2021-06-12

Sir John Cotton Showing his Mantuan Horses to Charles II at Newmarket (unknown artist, c1670, National Horse Racing Museum).
Charles loved horse racing; he restored the palace and stables at Newmarket and founded race meetings there

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2021-04-24

There's an exciting project to reconstruct the Lenox, a 70-gun third rater built in 1678 in Deptford. Can you imagine sailing in a full-size replica Restoration ship of the line?

Pic: Lenox and two other Navy ships fight a Spanish 70-gunner, 1740

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2021-04-10

Fubbs the yacht was scrapped in 1781, of course; Madam Carwell wasn't scrapped by Charles II, but remained in high favour until his death.
She returned to France and died in Paris on 14 November 1734, aged 85.

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2021-04-10

I always love Charles II's yacht Fubbs, named for the plumptastic Louise de Kerouaille. Designed by Phineas Pett and built in 1682 at Greenwich, Fubbs was ketch-rigged and underwent several rebuilds. She was scrapped in 1781

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2021-04-10

Charles II and his brother loved sailing. The King named one of his yachts Fubbs ('chubby'), his nickname for Louise de Kerouaille. Despite its name it was fast😏
Here are Fubbs the ketch-rigged yacht (with the Katherine) and Fubbs the mistress

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2021-02-07

Masques! Charles I and Henrietta Maria continued the tradition, when circumstances allowed, and appeared in some (not to universal approval). The Banqueting House was the ideal setting; somewhat ironically, with hindsight

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2021-01-31