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happy chinese new year fellow chinamen, devonshire creedy carver crispy aromatic duck with egg fried rice, kimchi, pancake roll & stir fried vegetables

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2023-01-23

In Devonshire carrying a potato in your pocket was considered a reliable cure for toothache.

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2022-11-09

In our latest blog post Collections Curator Tessa Kilgarriff reflects on one of Chiswick’s most famous inhabitants.
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, by Thomas Gainsborough,1783. NGA

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2022-09-07

22.Exeterคุณเอ็กเซกเตอร์เมืองเล็กๆDevonshireอยู่ทางใต้เป็นคนที่ใจดีเป็นกันเองทักทุกอย่างที่เดินผ่านเถียงก่ะCornwallเรื่องการกินสโคน ดูเป็นคนสมถะที่จริงๆก็รํ่ารวยให้บรรยากาศคุณตา(?)วันเกษียณที่อยู่ชนบทแก่มากกอยู่มาตั้งแต่สมัยโรมัน

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2022-09-03

’Dressed like a Duchess’
A little mouse seems to have found herself a miniature portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Gainsborough (the original hangs at ) and has decided to fashion herself an outfit like the Duchess’ 🐭🎩🪶

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2022-08-25

'Atlantic Packet - The Devonshire, 1859' by Montague Dawson.

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2022-08-10

"HMS Devonshire" ,Ink illustration ✍️
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2022-08-02

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On May 6, 1876, Thomas Gainsborough’s painting, Duchess of Devonshire, causes a stir when it goes up for auction at Christie's in London. It sells to a London art dealer, William Agnew, for $51,540, the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction.

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2022-05-06

Day 31.

For our FINAL(!) day, here is Maria Cosway’s (1760-1838) The Duchess of Devonshire as Cynthia from Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, . When Cosway exhibited this piece in 1782, it caused a SENSATION, as it /

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2022-04-01

From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire - her final days' https://t.co/fG24wVHqJm

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2022-03-25

When I plot a novel, I feel like one of Macbeth’s witches stirring a bubbling cauldron as I determine my characters’ fates. I’m plotting today, so my is Gardner’s 1775 “The Three Witches” featuring the D of Devonshire, Lady Melbourne, & Anne Damer.

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2022-03-22

In the mid-1950s, two holly trees were cut down in a Devonshire parish, leading to violent protests from the locals, who feared that this would produce havoc from poltergeists. New trees were promptly replanted by the council and no hauntings were ever reported.

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2022-03-16

Gainsborough’s 18thc portraits of Georgiana Cavendish, “Gee”, the Duchess of Devonshire reveal her beauty, wit, & charm. At 17, she married one of the highest ranked nobleman in the peerage. But he was a cold philanderer. Her life was sad, but her legacy as a polymath endures 🖋

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2021-12-01