Showing posts with label 18C. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18C. Show all posts
Friday, May 20, 2022

18C Personification of Spring (with background gardens, of course!) from Robert Sayer London in 1750

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1750 Spring Published by Robert Sayer London Here Spring is once again depicted as a fashionably-dressed young woman with flowers in h...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

18C Personification of Spring in the Garden from Carrington Bowles 1766

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1766 Spring in the Garden... Published by Carrington Bowles After Robert Pyle done by James Watson London Here Spring is a stylish young...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

18C Allegory of Spring - Love & Bird Nests

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1800 Spring by P Stampa published in London This couple is in a garden with flowers in bloom & a cold frame on the right side. The...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

10-Year-Old Nova Scotia Girl Learning about Proper Tea Ettiquite at Finishing School in Early America

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Anna Green Winslow (1759-1779) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Joshua Winslow & his wife Anna Green. In 1770, at the ...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

1749 September

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1749 September - John June (Print made by) D Voisin (Published by) London Most iconography of months evolved from Medieval & early ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Summer - Richard Houston (Irish printmaker, c 1721 - 1775) Summer as a Woman

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Richard Houston (Irish printmaker, c 1721 - 1775) The Seasons - Summer
Sunday, November 1, 2015

The earliest Picnics occured after the Hunt in the 18C

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Food historians tell us picnics evolved from the elaborate traditions of outdoor feasts enjoyed by the wealthy. Medieval hunting feasts ...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Bastille Day 1890 by van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch artist, 1853-1890) is Auvers Town Hall 14 July 1890
Saturday, September 26, 2015

1720s-30s English houses & landscapes by Peter Tillemans (1684–1734)

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Peter Tillemans (Flemish artist, 1684–1734) A View of the Garden and Main Parterre of Winchendon House, Buckinghamshire, from the East, wi...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

1738 Unusual Gardens flanking the courtyard of this hunting-lodge castle

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Charles Leopold van Grevenbroeck (c 1731-1799)  Arrival of King Louis XV (1723–1774) at La Muette Castle in 1738. Detai The castle was ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Families In Gardens & Parks by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788)

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 Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Mr and Mrs Carter, c.1747–8 Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park - Self Portrai...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

1700s Times of Day - Richard Houston (Irish printmaker, c.1721-1775)

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Richard Houston (Irish printmaker, c.1721 - 1775) Times of Day - Morning  Richard Houston (Irish printmaker, c.1721 - 1775) Times ...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

The Five Senses - 1753 John Bowles (British Printer, 1701-1779)

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 1753 John Bowles (British Printer, 1701-1779) The Five Senses - Hear  1753 John Bowles (British Printer, 1701-1779) The Five Sens...