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On this day, birth of Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816) and John Duncombe (1729-1786).

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Henry Harington (1727-1816) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
September 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Henry Wallis, Chatterton (1856). Horace Walpole was (unfairly) vilified in his lifetime over the Chatterton affair; the 19C Chatterton revival didn’t help his reputation. Tate Britain #c18 #c18th #18thc
Melodramatic portrait of the dead poet on a bed in a garret, a casket of papers by his bedside
September 29, 2026 at 9:41 AM
c18ah.bsky.social
This day 291 years ago: William Julius Mickle (1735-1788) born this day.

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William Julius Mickle (1735?-1788) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
September 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
stephanieoffer.bsky.social
Reading his will on there made me realise my mistake. I've got some re-writing to do, but I'd rather find the mistake now while I can correct it.

I really appreciate the sheer amount of work these researchers have put into this database. 🗃 #C18th
September 28, 2026 at 1:11 PM
stephanieoffer.bsky.social
I've stopped catastrophying &done some research into the correct branch of the St Barbe family, which is also interesting.

It really shows the value &importance to research of databases like the British slave traders

This is the wrong St Barbe britishslavetraders.org/individual/p... #C18th 🗃
September 28, 2026 at 1:11 PM
redfells.bsky.social
C18th double wardrobe with primitive carved panels, excellent condition. Would’ve posted photo but 🧿
September 28, 2026 at 10:36 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
William Hogarth, scene from John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera where Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit plead for the release of Macheath, each believing she’s his wife (1735). Mack the knife … Tate Britain #c18 #c18th #18thc
Inside a prison, a group of figures. In the centre, a man dressed in a scarlet coat and black Twickenham. To his right, a kneeling young long wiman in white pleads with the gaoler. The gilt wood frame has a dark wood carved portrait of Hogarth in an oval surrounded by trophies of the arts
September 28, 2026 at 9:32 AM
minthestyx.bsky.social
Give any society of humans the tech, the social structures, and they will eff nature. Around end C18th we just found the way for the biggest effing of all.
September 28, 2026 at 7:35 AM
beesincampanula.bsky.social
Theres a possible C18th source on a contemporary map. Interestingly, researchers exploring woods near Kingshall Street uncovered fragments of old green-yellow and red brick foundations buried in the soil, suggesting that a building once stood in the area- nothing on later maps though.
September 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Room 4 at Tate Britain: #c18 #c18th #18thc pictures hung salon-style. Joseph Highmore’s Mr B Discovering Pamela Writing should be here (or nearby) but is in storage 😥
Pictures hung from the top of the knee-high dark green marble running around the room up the green walls to the white plaster cornice Pictures described here: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/historic-early-modern-british-art/1760-room?utm_source=signage&utm_medium=qr_code&utm_campaign=DIG_Exhibition-Age
September 27, 2026 at 9:59 AM
archaeoali.bsky.social
After spending last week at the Record Office pursuing PhD research, I found reference in an C18th document to a parish boundary stone that I reckoned still had a good chance of being in situ.
Cue a reconnaissance mission with a pleasing conclusion 🙌
September 26, 2026 at 6:34 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Joseph Wright of Derby, Sir Brooke Boothby (1781), Tate Britain #c18 #c18th #18thc
Sir Brooke, dressed in brown with white stockings and a black broad-brimmed hat, reclines languorously in a woodland setting, one arm propped up against a tree trunk. In the other he holds a volume that says ‘Rousseau’ on the spine
September 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Henry Fuseli (Füssli), Titania & Bottom (c1790), Tate Britain #c18 #c18th #18thc
Scene from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream showing the Queen of the Fairies enchanted by the ass-headed Bottom, surrounded by a crowd of fairies
September 26, 2026 at 2:16 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Chinese blue and white ceramics (late 17C to #c18 #c18th #18thc) from the collection of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, on loan to Tate Britain from The Hunterian, Glasgow
Four shelves of blue and white ceramic plates and vessels
September 26, 2026 at 9:57 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Torii Kinoyaga, scenes from Twelve Months in the South (1780s), from the collection of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, on loan to Tate Britain from the British Museum #c18 #c18th #18thc
Two scenes of women, some standing and some seated, in a anterior with a vview of a sailing ship seen through a window
September 26, 2026 at 9:57 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
The temple in the gardens at Chiswick House #c18 #c18th #18thc
Temple with Ionic columns, framed by trees, overlooking a pond with an obelisk in the middle. Note the brown grass left by the summer’s drought)
September 25, 2026 at 8:31 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
One of John Cheere’s original lead sphinxes (1749), preserved from the elements inside Chiswick House; the garden has stone replicas #c18 #c18th #18thc
Front view, with a Roman statue behind Rear view
September 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
grrrbrexit.bsky.social
Well, maybe there was a drunken, oafish toff in the C18th ... But even then it would be close.
September 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Chiswick House: portrait of Alexander Pope (1735) by William Kent above a door (validating Horace Walpole’s observation that Kent was a mediocre painter) #c18 #c18th #18thc
View of a white doorway with gilding and pediment, oval portrait above with supporting gilt merboys (putti with fishtails) Closer view of the portrait
September 25, 2026 at 3:06 PM
speckledjimreborn.bsky.social
Once again - the French Revolution gave us deputies on the left or the right of the chamber. That was C18th politics. As we move forward into the C21st we need to discover how a modern approach to politics can bring people together rather than create divisions.
September 25, 2026 at 3:04 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Chiswick House: interior views (photography strictly verboten!) #c18 #c18th #18thc
The Blue Velvet Room, with rich silk wall hangings and masses of gilding. The photography police were too passively aggressively vigilant to allow me to take snaps of the Red Velvet Room, where the interpretive guides have gone pretty heavily into the ‘Lord Burlington was a crypto-Jacobite’ theory promoted by Jane Clark (which I’m not sure I buy) Doorway in the Blue Velvet Room with gilt pediment and over door portrait flanked by gilt putti Under the central octagonal dome , hung with large paintings over Roman marble bust on gilt brackets Curved white marble fireplace with gilding
September 25, 2026 at 12:06 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
Chiswick House (completed 1729) exterior views #c18 #c18th #18thc
The Earl of Burlington’s Palladian villa in white with a columned portico and dome, yellow stone wing to the right, seen from the gravel forecourt Stone sphinx on a plinth in the garden (replacing John Cheere’s lead original of 1749) View of the main block from an allée lined with cypresses Stone gatepost topped by a (replacement) lead sphinx
September 25, 2026 at 6:18 AM
nguthrie.bsky.social
John Smart, portrait of an unknown gent (c1770). V&A #c18 #c18th #18thc
Oval portrait of a young man in a blue suit with a black silk collar, white shirt, hair powdered. The frame is set with sparkly brilliants
September 24, 2026 at 3:27 PM
c18ah.bsky.social
In eighteenth-century literary history: birth of Horace Walpole (1717-1797) and William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850).

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

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Horace Walpole (1717-1797) / © National Portrait Gallery, London William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
September 24, 2026 at 2:01 PM
nguthrie.bsky.social
James Smart, portrait miniature of Abdul Khaliq Sultan (c1792), eldest legitimate son of the Tipu Sultan of Mysore. V&A #c18 #c18th #18thc
Oval portarit miniature of a young Indian prince with an inquisitive look. White coat, pale red turban. He and his younger brother were taken hostage by the East India Company, which wanted concessions from Tipu Sultan. The portrait was probably intended to show that the prince had not been mistreated
September 24, 2026 at 1:35 PM