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@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:12 PM

Strawberry Hill: views of the exterior #c18 #c18th #18thc

Four views of the white cricketer and crenallated exterior of Horace Walpole’s sham gothic villa
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:11 PM

OK, Nirvana (Nerdvana?): views of the interior of Strawberry Hill #c18 #c18th #18thc

@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 7:09 PM

Francesco Guardi, View of the vaulted arcade of the Doge’s palace. Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

Small oval painting framed in gilt wood. Vaulted arcade with figures, Santa Maria della Salute in the distance
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:28 PM

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Les heureux hasards de l’escarpolette, Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

Dazzling painting of a lady in a pink dress in a rich garden landscape. As she swings, one of her sippers flies off. A gentleman crouched below looks up in astonishment and delight. To their left, a statue of a putto with his finger to his lips. The pink of her dress is like enamel, in contrast to the hazy greens of the landscape. A tour de force (and the height of frivolity)View of the painting hanging against red silk brocade wall hangings above a marquetry cabinet with. Dark green marble top on which there is a gilt bronze clock flanked by two blue sewers with gilt bronze mountsDetail of the gent who is looking up into the skirts of the lady. Note that ladies did not wear underpants in the 18CDetail: a lapdog also looks up from a bed of brightly painted flowers
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:27 PM

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Gilles and his family, Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

Gilles the melancholy clown in his white suit plays a guitar, flanked by pairs of figures. They stand before a classical archway through which there is a view of a landscape
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 5:39 PM

Poster advertising the sale of furniture and ‘effets’ of the late Queen Marie-Antoinette from the Petit Trianon (1793), Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc 😢

Vente de meubles et effets de la ci-devant reine, provenant du Petit Trianon …
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 5:37 PM

Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher (1759), Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

Portrait of la Pompadour, elegantly dressed and standing in a garden, a statue behind her. The picture has a gilt wood rococo frame and hangs above a table with a jasper urn (c1770-75) with elaborate gilt bronze mounts including two putti who perch on each side of the urn
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 2:51 PM

Almanach perpetuel made for Louis XV (1741-42), Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

Pair of white enamel panels in gilt bronze mounts with the French royal arms in ble and gold enamel at the top. These two panels list the saints’ days and other religious dates for January to March and April to June. Two further panels: July to September and October to December
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 2:39 PM

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Le Souvenir (c1776-78), Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

A young woman dressed in pink carves the initial S (hers? her lover’s?) on the turn of a tree. Her spaniel looks up from a bench.
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 1:45 PM

Sèvres overdose at the Wallace Collection #c18 #c18th #18thc

@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 10:19 AM

The Monument (1671-77), commemorating the Great Fire (and originally blaming it on a convenient minority, Roman Catholics, which prompted Pope’s lines, quoted in the alt text) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Tall fluted Doric column with a gilt finial, surrounded by ugly modern buildingsIn the aftermath of the so-called Popish plot, the words ‘Sed Furor Papisticus Qui Tamdiu Patravit Nondum Restingvitur’ (but Popish frenzy, which wrought such horrors, is not yet quenched’) were added and not removed until 1830. Anither inscription in the east’s side also blamed Catholics. Pope wrote in the Moral Essays: ‘Where London's column, pointing at the skies, / Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.’
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:39 AM

Nicholas Hawksmoor’s gothic/baroque towers at All Souls, Oxford #c18 #c18th #18thc

Quirky twin towers seen through the gate facing Radcliffe Square
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:37 AM

James Gibbs’s Radcliffe Camera (1737-49), having an Instagram moment (as ever) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Circular baroque reading room with rusticated first level, central but with columns and done. Moody clouds above
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:52 AM

Worcester porcelain from the Marshall collection #c18 #c18th #18thc @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

There are five of these floor-to ceiling vitrines of Worcester porcelain, mostly NOT the characteristic blue and white wares made by the factory
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:52 AM

Head of a laughing child (Chelsea, c1750) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc

Naturalistic polychrome porcelain head of a laughing child
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:43 AM

Glass plate with a scene of Venice (Murano, 1741) #c18 #c18th #18thc @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

White glass plate with a view of SS Giovanni e Paolo, gondolas in the foreground
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:41 AM

Wineglass with an enamel portrait of Prince Charles Edward #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #[email protected]

Clear glass with air-twist stem and multicoloured painted portrait of the prince in tartan suit and Garter sash, white rose in his blue bonnet
@defoesociety.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 6:29 AM

New Publication Alert

Farr, Jason S.. The Deaf Resonances of Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Stanford University Press, 2027.

#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #defoesociety

@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 3:34 PM

Joseph Claus, bust of Pope Benedict XIV (1757) #c18 #c18th #18thc @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

White marble bust of every 18C Englishman’s favourite pontiff with red silk brocade wall covering behind
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 3:33 PM

Terracotta model of Jean Roubilliac’s Westminster Abbey monument to Handel @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc

Terracotta model (or later representation) of the monument showing the composer leaning on a pile of musical instruments and scores, pointing upwards to an angel sitting on a cloud and playing a harp