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carolineirwin3.bsky.social
#SundayStonework from St George, Orleton, Herefordshire. C14th/15th churchyard cross with a C18th shaft and a modern wooden cross.
November 1, 2026 at 10:17 AM
jamesbarr.bsky.social
Turn of the C18th Karabagh.
November 1, 2026 at 11:11 AM
aodhbc.bsky.social
This was an extraordinary automated process invented in the 18th century.

Physiognotrace

#c18th #c18
Physiognotrace - Wikipedia
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November 3, 2026 at 2:40 PM
racheldeering.bsky.social
Autumn cat in a garden with chrysanthemum, Byeon Sangbyeok-Gukjeong chumyo, C18th. #Caturday
Painting titled "Gukjeong chumyo" (Korean: 국정추묘), which translates to "Autumn cat in a garden with chrysanthemum". A crouching cat with a mottled coat of black, brown, and white fur. The cat is positioned on a light-colored background, with its eyes looking to the left. To the right of the cat, there are wild chrysanthemum plants with pink flowers and green leaves.
October 31, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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.
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November 1, 2026 at 12:15 PM
househistorian.bsky.social
Just on my way back from a three day research trip in Dorset!! Fun and games reading through C17th and C18th manorial records for a lovely C17th house!! 😀 But now exhausted! 🥱 #beforeandafter #researchtripselfie #HappyFriday #househistories #househistory #househistorian
October 30, 2026 at 5:46 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
rostaylor.bsky.social
And Guyana is also where demerara sugar originally came from. Demerara was the site of a number of slave rebellions in the late C18th.
October 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM
c18ah.bsky.social
The new #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive metres database offers a faceted browser, distribution charts, a network explorer and per-poet and per-form profiles for exploring the metrical form of #c18th verse:

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/resources/me...

#poetry #DigitalHumanities #metre #dataviz
Screenshot of the #ECPA Metres Database corpus overview page
November 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
c18ah.bsky.social
On this date 302 years ago, date of birth of Christopher Anstey (1724-1805).

Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00205.shtml

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
Christopher Anstey (1724-1805) with his daughter / © National Portrait Gallery, London
October 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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
artherstory.bsky.social
Chrysanthemum, from the Flowers of the Twelve Months: November, 1690-1710, by #YunBing (#Qingyu 清於; Haoru 浩如; Chinese, Qianlong era, active late C17th–early C18th). Held by Asian Art Museum, searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/5434... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory
A delicate rectangular, portrait-mode painting against a gold background of several stalks chrysanthemum. Toward the top are three lavender blossoms; below them are two red blossoms; below the red are two white blossoms, with one more to the left; and further to the left are five salmon-colored blossoms. There are two square-shaped red stamps, one over the other, in the bottom left corner of the work.
November 1, 2026 at 12:38 PM
c18ah.bsky.social
In eighteenth-century literary history: birth of Sir James Marriott (1730-1803) and James Boswell (1740-1795).

Poems appear in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
James Boswell (1740-1795) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
October 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Fan-shaped box (Meissen, c1730-35), at Bonhams, Paris (est. €6,000-8,000) #c18 #c18th #18thc
After a Japanese lacquer form, painted in Kakiemon style, the cover with stylised rockwork and flowering plants and a landscape vignette with a a hut flanked by bushes, the short rims painted with flowering plants, the curved rims with flowering plants issuing from rockwork, 10.3cm across, crossed swords mark in blue. Seen here with cover on. The box and cover side by side. The interior of the box is plain white.
November 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM
c18ah.bsky.social
On this day (317 years ago), Sneyd Davies (1709-1769) born this day.

Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00028.shtml

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
Sneyd Davies (1709-1769) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
October 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
cambrian-explorer.bsky.social
Never trust anyone who, when handed a cardboard tube, doesn't either wave it around like a sword/lightsaber or look through it while doing impressions of a C18th sailor.
October 30, 2026 at 4:15 PM
derpjames.bsky.social
It's 950 pages of dense C18th economic theory, so it's heavy going - but so many people hold Smith up as the poster boy of modern economics (and politics) that I wanted to see what he actually says.
November 2, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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
c18ah.bsky.social
On this date 306 years ago, John Hawkesworth (1720-1773)’s birth date.

Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00044.shtml

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
John Hawkesworth (1720-1773) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
October 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
anterotesis.bsky.social
More c18th vols now freely viewable and #PublicDomain via Google Books:

Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, 1766:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=TnT...

The General Gazetteer, Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary, 1786:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=jwt...
November 1, 2026 at 9:20 AM
goldenageofpiracy.bsky.social
Archaic word of the day:

nary - not a one; not at all; not any; no; never a (e.g. nary a man was left ; first recorded in 1740)

#englishlanguage #history #c18th
October 27, 2026 at 1:56 PM
anterotesis.bsky.social
c18th books now freely viewable and #PublicDomain via Google Books:

A New Universal History of the Religious Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs of the Whole World, 1780:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=IjY...

Salmon's Geographical and Astronomical Grammar, 1785:
books.google.co.uk/books?id=vix...
November 1, 2026 at 9:16 AM
derpjames.bsky.social
All in all, worth reading to see what he actually says, and as an interesting insight into late C18th current affairs - but I did have to take frequent breaks to read other things, and found myself regularly glazing over when he got a bit too in depth about the corn laws or whatever!
November 2, 2026 at 10:20 PM
c18ah.bsky.social
On this day, birth of Hester Mulso Chapone (1727-1801) and James Macpherson (1736-1796).

Poems appear in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD
Hester Mulso Chapone (1727-1801) / © National Portrait Gallery, London James Macpherson (1736-1796) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
October 27, 2026 at 2:01 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