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@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 12:28 PM

Gilt bronze clock by James Cox, with the pre-1788 arms of Cardinal Prince Henry Benedict (but see the alt text) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #18thc

White enamel clock face mounted on a pedestal featuring dolphins and an enamel plaque of two Pompeiian dancers, flanked by fenme figures and surmounted with a finial with the Cardinal Prince’s arms with lion supporter, unicorn missing). The finial is not original, however, and was probably added to increase the appeal of the piece to its purchaser, the 10th Duke of Hamilton

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 8:58 AM

Anne Seymour Damer, bust of Prince Henry Lubomirski as Bacchus (c1777) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc

White marble bust of a boy with shoulder length wavy locks

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 6:26 AM

Jean-Antoine Watteau, Le Repos gracieux (c1713) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc

In a woodland setting with a cascade behind, a lady in a white silk dress and black cape sits with her lover and a small spaniel. Couldn’t manage to minimise the reflection from the protective glass over this tiny and exquisite picture

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:46 PM

Flora Macdonald by Allan Ramsay (1749) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #18thc

Portrait of the lady who helped Prince Charles Edward escape his pursuers after the battle of Culliden. She wears a blue voice over a white blouse, with a tartan plaid over her shoulders and white and redroses pinned at her breast, another white rose over her right ear. She holds more flowers in her left hand

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 4:47 PM

The Treby toilet service by Paul de Lamerie (1724) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc

Silver boxes, vessels, candlestick, the corner of a large dressing-table mirror in elegant baroque style

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 3:24 PM

Bottle tickets (decanter labels) @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc

Enamel and silver labels for a variety of wines. Marshall gift.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 4:09 PM

Christ Church, Spitalfields (1729), in the characteristically idiosyncratic baroque of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Sadly the interior was not open for viewing #c18 #c18th #18thc

Porch with columns and Palladian arch at the foot of a spire with a Palladian window and pilasters but also a pointed steeple. Dramatic clouds.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 3:10 PM

Spitalfields #c18 #c18th #18thc

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 10:32 AM

St Mary le Strand (1714-24), designed by the Roman Catholic #Jacobite James Gibbs & much influenced by his time in Rome (as well as by Wren). Prince Charles Edward is said to have renounced Rome here in 1750 #c18 #c18th #18thc

Porch with small semi-circular colonnade inspired by Sta Maria della Pace

Interior view: relatively sober baroque classicism with ceiling inspired by Luigi Fontana’s Santi Apostoli (parish church of the exiled Jacobite court)

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 8:01 AM

Clock by Matthew Boulton (1772), a copy (made without permission) of the one designed by Sir William Chambers for King George III. Courtauld Gallery #c18 #c18th #18thc

Neo-classical clock case with gilt brass mounts and a white enamel clock face on a dark blue panel

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 9:13 PM

Tea caddies, sugar box and tea chest by Samuel Courtauld (1750-51) and stirrup cup by Louisa Courtauld (1773-74), Courtauld Gallery #c18 #c18th #18thc

Shagreen box with silver mounts, pair of rococo silver tea caddies and sugar box

Silver stirrup cup in the shape of a fox’s head

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 9:12 PM

GB Tiepolo, oil sketch of the Immaculate Conception (1767), Courtauld Gallery #c18 #c18th #18thc

The Virgin Immaculate in a white robe and flowing pale blue mantle, hands in prayer, serene expression, trampling a small dragon and standing on a globe. Surrounded by clouds and putti, the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove floating above

@achatenetc.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 5:29 PM

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@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 2:13 PM

Thomas Gainsborough, portrait of the artist’s wife, Margaret (c1778), Courtauld Gallery #c18 #c18th #18thc

Portrait of a middle-aged woman with a rather sad expression, with a black mantle that falls from her natural but dressed and great-powdered hair. Gilt wood rococo frame

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 2:13 PM

Richard Wilson, View of River Dee (c1760), Courtauld Gallery #c18 #c18th #18thc

Luminous scene of the river with two figures in the foreground and a large tree in the right. Cloudy sky infused with a large patch of pale yellow. Gilt wood rococo frame

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 10:25 AM

The staircase at Somerset House in the wing that housed the Royal Academy, the Antiquaries and the Royal Society, satirised as the ‘Exhibition Stare Case’ by Thomas Rowlandson #c18 #c18th #18thc

View of the staircase from below with a round window at the top and metalwork balustrades painted blue along the not-quite-circular staircase descending through white plasterwork

Another view, from the side in a landing

Reproduction of Rowlandson ‘Exhibition Stare Case’ (c1811) with Royal Academy visitors toppling down it

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 10:24 AM

At the earlier home of @antiquaries.bsky.social in Somerset House: the old council chamber with the monogram SA in the 1780s plasterwork by Thomas Collins #c18 #c18th #18thc

View of the council chamber with a fine neoclassical plasterwork ceiling

Detail of the ceiling: the monogram SA in white plaster within a wreath with branches against a pink ground, green and white decoration to the left

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 8:49 PM

Albany (1771-76), off Piccadilly, designed by Sir William Chambers as a town house for the 1st Viscount Melbourne but divided into freehold sets for bachelors in 1802. Bachelorhood no longer required & women permitted, but kids verboten. Byron lived here #c18 #c18th #18thc

Up a very short street from Piccadilly in a small courtyard (with some parking), a black Palladian building with a door framed by white columns, two storeys of white framed windows above, all below a pediment framed in white.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Sep 15, 2026, 1:26 PM

Random object in the V&A East Storehouse: Masonic armchair from the mid #c18 #c18th #18thc

Chippendale-ish walnut armchair with lighter wood inlay featuring Masonic emblems (ruler, sextant etc) at the top. Seat cushion covered in white ptotective fabric. From the Middlesex Lodge.