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Some of the great Kate Greenaway’s (1846-1901) calendars for February. Her work was immensely popular in her day, & she loved revisiting the C18th in her influential style 🍃

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2023-02-02

Discovery in - Late C18th Double Fusee Bracket by George Cowle of London - Fine Objects, Pictures & Books Now in Preparation 01244 680055

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2023-01-06

It's here's your featuring the fantastic, the phenomenal, the incredible !!

Find here books here - https://t.co/pLUs8ItkDo

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2022-12-18

Want to impress your friends next time you’re at an art museum? Follow the hashtag for 24 days featuring the long Greatest Of All Time artists (GOATest, as my kids say) & how to recognize them!

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2022-11-29

C18th sentimentalism forever changed the public grieving of a child’s death. The intellectual Sir Brooke Boothby, lost his child Penelope (age 6). On her sad tomb it read: ‘The unfortunate parents ventured their all on this frail bark and the wreck was total.’

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2022-11-12

Fruit Still Life, C18th, attr to (nee Troost; Dutch, c. 1680/90-1749), who died (Sept 20). Private collection?; source, https://t.co/oGyKG3Y12F

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2022-09-20

Kept a close eye on the dress depicted in this late C18th-early C19th French artists collection. Have details if anyone would like.

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2022-08-06

& the term Macaroni was used mid C18th to refer to rich men who wore elaborate dress seen in Europe.
Probably from the Macaroni Club, a fashionable dining society specialising in foreign foods & maybe connected to the Italian 'maccherone' meaning fool https://t.co/1eTddTyqui

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2022-08-04

A raging stream with a bridge and a view of a valley, C18th, by (German, 1747-94), who was born (July 22). After Allaert va Everdingen; held by , https://t.co/g0aKagtQBs

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2022-07-22

Sir John Everett Millais (a Pre-Raphaelite) links the “fancy paintings” of Mercier, Reynolds & Gainsborough & the nostalgic sentimentalism of the Victorians with “My First Sermon” & “My Second Sermon”. Do you see how these later inspired Norman Rockwell?

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2022-06-24

I can’t have a series on naughtiness in gardens without mentioning Fragonard’s “The Swing” c1767. This one is so good I’ll make it a 🧵. (1/4)

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2022-02-24

Art history teaches us that C18th gardens ran amuck with virile young men & with Cupids. This elderly hubs should’ve remembered that before determining to nap in the middle of an al fresco smooch session with his pretty young wife. Tsk, tsk.
Jean-Frederic Schall

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2022-02-22

David Garrick and George Anne Bellamy as Romeo and Juliet. This was Theo Cibber’s version which followed Otway’s revision (Caius Marius) of 1680 in having Juliet wake up in the tomb before Romeo dies. C18th audiences preferred this plot twist to the original. 🎃 👻

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2021-10-31

I thought I told you not to undertake demon summoning with a scented candle!

Early C18th British satire.

British Museum: 1868,0808.13206

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2021-10-20

Recognise this ever popular street in C18th How did 17th 18th & 19th century shopkeepers shape the city? What's the story of the fabulous Lewis's building, now home to Primark? Join & 15 Sept 1-2pm to find out! https://t.co/GoivYWu0lM

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2021-09-11

It is unlucky to kill a blue dragonfly. A little awkward because it will bring you luck if you place the wings of a blue dragonfly between the pages of a religious book. (Evans, 1845. Shaw, C18th)

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2021-06-26

A trip out to deepest Warwickshire - Lady Katherine Leveson’s Hospital at Temple Balsall (C18th work by Smith of Warwick) and National School at Nuthurst

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2021-05-06

Children of Marie Antoinette: A Brief History of Each - The children of included two girls and two boys, the girls being the oldest and youngest. All four children were born in France, ... https://t.co/KEWe2Kr5pG

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2021-04-24