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@nicolaparsons.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 9:04 AM

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#c18 #18thc #bookhistory

@bethanyqualls.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 8:27 AM

Anyone know what's going on with the Blake Archive?

Looks like UNC Chapel Hill remapped their website but the Blake Archive itself seems to have been down for at least a day... and I am concerned. #19thC #18thC

www.blakearchive.org

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 10:17 AM

Sir William Beechey, The children of Sir Francis Ford giving a coin to a beggar (1793), Tate Britain #c18 #c18th #18thc

A thin young beggar takes a coin from the rather nervous-looking daughter, dressed in pink and white with a matching bonnet. Her brother , in a red suit with trousers and a large black hat with a black ostrich plume, stands between them with a questioning gaze at the beggar. A spaniel looks up at the poor boy

@c18ah.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 3:05 PM

An unexpected place to find the best work on performance theory and analysis I’ve read in years, but The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre (ed. Swindells & @davidftaylor.bsky.social) is exactly that. An absolutely brilliant volume. 📚🎭

@academic.oup.com #TheatreHistory #18thC #TheatreStudies

@annamthane.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 2:37 PM

Look forward to October!

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 #JaneAusten

A compilation of 21 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 9:41 AM

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

@fancyhistorian.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 6:49 AM

Help! Does anyone, by chance, have either photos or transcriptions of Thomas Parsons's diary? In whole or part? He was a stonecutter in Bath in 1769. It's at the Huntington and all I can find a handful of articles :/
#18thc #skystorians

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 9:32 AM

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

@annamthane.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 6:12 PM

Enjoy reading in September!

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

#Regency #Napoleon #history #18thc #JaneAusten

A compilation of 27 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 9:59 AM

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

@achatenetc.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 6:23 PM

Un nouvel épisode qui s'annonce passionnant #18thc

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 3:01 PM

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

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 2:16 PM

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

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 9:57 AM

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

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 9:57 AM

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

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 8:31 PM

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)

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 5:12 PM

One of John Cheere’s original lead sphinxes (1749), preserved from the elements inside Chiswick House; the garden has stone replicas #c18 #c18th #18thc

@elementaladam.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 3:21 PM

Were giving away 20 copies of TWO MEN OF LETTERS to the first 20 people to book onto our #BHM event:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist...

#18C #18thC @bsecs.bsky.social

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 3:06 PM

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)

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 12:06 PM

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