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@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

@sarahmurden.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 2:30 PM

From the archives of All Thing Georgian, find out more about the infamous William Habberfield aka ‘Slender Billy’ of Pimlico - wp.me/p3JTNy-66R #18c #c18

@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

@ivoteliberal.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:54 PM

Les libéraux ont donné 600 M$ aux médias qui les couvrent. Puis ils demandent pourquoi les Canadiens doutent des nouvelles. #polcan #C18

@ivoteliberal.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:53 PM

Les libéraux ont donné 600 M$ aux médias qui les couvrent. Puis ils demandent pourquoi les Canadiens doutent des nouvelles. #polcan #C18

@ivoteliberal.bsky.social Sep 16, 2026, 8:53 PM

The Liberals gave $600M to the media that covers them. Then ask why Canadians don't trust the news. #cdnpoli #C18

@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.