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#18thC #EarlyModern
October 31, 2026 at 8:22 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
New from the Getty, a monograph on Anne Vallayer-Coster shop.getty.edu/products/ann... #c18 #c18th #18thc
Anne Vallayer-Coster
The first English-language monograph on Vallayer-Coster in two decades offers a renewed feminist lens on one of eighteenth-century France's most celebrated painters.
shop.getty.edu
November 1, 2026 at 12:15 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Another (somewhat fence-sitting) #Jacobite peer condemned to death in 1746: the wily Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (by Hogarth, from my front hall) #c18 #c18th #18thc
Engraved portrait of Lord Lovat ‘drawn from the life’ and engraved by Hogarth in the eve of his execution in this best-selling print
November 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
chartresfi.bsky.social
It's often used in the 18thC on gravestones and memorials and I've always assumed it represents resurrection and eternity in that setting.
October 31, 2026 at 2:42 PM
abigailswingen.bsky.social
We're approaching the Nov. 2 deadline for fellowships and travel grants to conduct research at the Lewis Walpole Library! Please share and consider applying. #18thc 🗃️
abigailswingen.bsky.social Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social · Sep 21
Working on a book, article, or dissertation on #18thc British world? The Lewis Walpole Library offers 4-week visiting fellowships and 2-week travel grants for scholars. The deadline for applications is November 2. 🗃️ More info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants | Lewis Walpole Library
walpole.library.yale.edu
October 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
simonparistours.bsky.social
#31DaysofGraves
Day 29: Fruit & Vegetables
pinecone or pineapple… The first a symbol of rebirth the second of hospitality. This grave is the supposed resting place of Rosalie Duthé a grand courtesan of the 18thC and definitely very hospitable “A companion of kings and nobility”
October 29, 2026 at 9:52 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
At Art Toronto yesterday, Zachari Logan’s drawings in blue pencil on mylar (& a small acrylic on canvas) - he knows his Mary Delany cut-outs #c18 #c18th #18thc
Delicate drawing of flowering weeds More of the same Small painting of green weeds against a black backdrop Weeds scattered across the mylar sheet. There’s also a large nude self-portrait of the artist feeding wild birds but it’s NSFW
October 31, 2026 at 11:06 AM
drbibliomane.bsky.social
I have been saying this to the students in my #18thc class all semester. You will learn more about the formal possibilities of fiction from a curriculum of these books--Clarissa especially-- than (I'll go out on a limb here) you will from a class on Middlemarch.

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
Philippa Gregory: ‘I read 100 of the best 18th century novels – the perfect author’s apprenticeship’
The British novelist on discovering Molly Keane, coming to Dickens late, and the books that taught her the importance of writing about history
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2026 at 12:01 PM
drbibliomane.bsky.social
Martin Engelbrecht's 1730 Book Lady.
Living the dream!
#18thc
Woman whose 18th century clothing and head dress are made of books and who is also carrying two very large books, one in each hand.
October 26, 2026 at 12:05 AM
bsecs.bsky.social
#CFP The Georgian Revival in Interwar Britain: Conservation, Campaigning, and Collections
12 May 2027
Please email proposals to anya@georgiangroup.org.uk with a
250 words abstract + brief bio by 7 December 2026 using subject line ‘Georgian Revival CFP’.
#18thC #skystorians 🗃️
October 28, 2026 at 8:53 AM
drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
My review of Eleanor Johnson's MONSTROUS BITCH: A History of Terrifying Women (Princeton University Press, 2026) is out in @draftingthepast.bsky.social!

💙📚🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histmed #politics #gender
An Incomplete Guide to the Female Monster
A new but limited history of the women who have always terrified men
www.draftingthepast.com
October 27, 2026 at 11:10 AM
amyalexca.bsky.social
Wow! See this report on a Black linguistics prof who recorded Creoles speaking their unique language during the ‘30s: “The language they spoke traces its roots to 18thC New Orleans, when the city was a French-Spanish colony on the fringes of the early US republic.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/u...
Oldest Recording of Louisiana’s Vanishing Creole Language Is Published (Gift Article)
The rediscovery of a forgotten recording from 1935 sheds light on a language rooted in the state’s history of slavery and French colonialism.
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
ahistoryinart.bsky.social
Tate has announced it has acquired 50 artworks from 18thC and 19thC India, gifted by the art historian Charles Greig. A highlight is Johan Zoffany’s 1784 portrait of Prince Jawan Bakht, one of three portraits of Indian sitters by Zoffany in UK public collections
October 26, 2026 at 10:13 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Over-mantel mirror (c1760), at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (est. £1,500-2,500) #c18 #c18th #18thc
Mirror (modern glass?) in carved and gilt wood frame with birds, rocaille and scrolls 99cm high, 135cm wide
October 27, 2026 at 10:00 AM
sarahmurden.bsky.social
From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'Fashionable Blues of the 18th century' - wp.me/p3JTNy-2h0 #18thc
October 25, 2026 at 7:47 AM
caz067.bsky.social
I’m writing a book about 18thC Australian immigrants. The stench is certainly a factor even for folk used to a stinky world.
October 30, 2026 at 8:35 PM
annamthane.bsky.social
Look forward to November!

Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month:
regency-explorer.net/new-releases/

#Regency #Napoleon #history #18thc
A compilation of 24 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet
October 27, 2026 at 7:17 PM
breerob-kirk.bsky.social
Well, I just figured out who James Sutherland is/was... And he is not who everyone claimed him to be. Writing about the Corris = fun detective work. #18thc #skystorians
October 31, 2026 at 3:05 PM
acarpen.bsky.social
See also www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... “The enduring authority of Female cheesemakers in the 18thC” - shouldn’t this be in the history curriculum given the popularity of the product? 🙂
November 2, 2026 at 12:36 PM
pbgameshistory.bsky.social
Rabbit-hole French word of the day is 'sifflement' in the context of the whistling / hissing sound of projectiles on the early 18thC battlefield.
October 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM
londonstagedb.bsky.social
📣New on the blog: LSDB live! We'll be at the April 2027 American Society for 18th Century Studies ( #ASECS ) conference in Portland, City of Roses -- with multiple(!) presentations bloghttps://blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/2026/10/29/keep-the-lsdb-weird/
#digitalhumanities #18thcentury #18thc #18c
Three textboxes superimposed onto a silhouetted map of the state of Oregon. The textboxes read, respectively, London Stage Database; LSDB + ASECS in PDX; American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Arrows connect them to where Portland is marked by a heart on the map.
October 29, 2026 at 6:56 PM
corblimeygvnr.bsky.social
Submit an underrated screen ghost
B/w image of a teen girl hugging a young boy, in 18thC dress, in a dim room with an open fire and life-size cut out figure of a boy against the wall
October 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
embrajeff.bsky.social
It’s excellent, she writes well, focusing the narrative from the perspective(s) of many of the women involved, similar to her presentation of the Whitechapel victims.
FWIW I’d also recommend her book on the lives of the Covent Garden sex workers in late 18thC.👇
October 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
George Engleheart, portrait of Hester Drummond, at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (est. £1,000-1,500) #c18 #c18th #18thc
From the catalogue Oval miniature portrait, watercolour and body colour on ivory, the sitter with curled powdered hair tied with a blue ribbon, wearing a frilled fichu trimmed with further blue ribbons, in a gilt metal locket frame with suspension loop, the reverse [not shown] with a hair knot. 5cm x 4cm Hester Cholmondeley was born in 1766, the daughter of Thomas Cholmondeley and Dorothy Cowper. She married John Drummond, a senior partner at Drummond's Bank, in 1789, and the marriage produced three children, a son and two daughters. She died at the age of 36 in 1802, and is buried at Great Stanmore, Middlesex.
October 29, 2026 at 10:07 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Broadside with the three #Jacobite peers (Cromartie, Kilmarnock & Balmerino) condemned to death in 1746, at Forum Auctions (est. £600-800) #c18 #c18th #18thc
Catalogue description: 'The Procession, Stature, Dress, and Likeness of the three Rebel Lords', broadside with woodcut vignette and three columns of letterpress text, on laid paper affixed to board support, sheet 460 x 358 mm (18 1/4 x 14 1/8 in), some small perforations and losses within the sheet, marginal nicks and losses, particularly to the upper right corner, damp-stains, toning and surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1746] ... Scarce, possibly unrecorded; variants of the vignette are held in the National Library of Scotland, and the British Museum. A satire on the Jacobite rebels showing three condemned Scottish lords (George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie; William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock; Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino) standing in an open space, possibly at the Tower of London. In the background on the left is an execution scene on a platform with a man holding up a severed head.
October 28, 2026 at 9:30 AM