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@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
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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.socialSep 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.socialSep 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
@elizagiardina.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 10:20 PM

#c18th #asecs #asecs27

@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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.socialSep 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.socialSep 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.
@c18ah.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 2:01 PM

On this day (317 years ago), Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) born this day.

Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00029.shtml

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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.socialSep 17, 2026, 3:10 PM

Spitalfields #c18 #c18th #18thc

@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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

Exterior view with steeplePorch with small semi-circular colonnade inspired by Sta Maria della PaceInterior view: relatively sober baroque classicism with ceiling inspired by Luigi Fontana’s Santi Apostoli (parish church of the exiled Jacobite court)
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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.socialSep 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 boxSilver stirrup cup in the shape of a fox’s head
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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.socialSep 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
@c18ah.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 2:01 PM

Today in eighteenth-century poetry: birth of John Dennis (1658-1734) and Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751).

Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/

#c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

John Dennis (1658-1734) / © National Portrait Gallery, LondonHenry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678-1751) / © National Portrait Gallery, London
@rabarr.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 1:53 PM

It's happening! 'Killjoy Comedy: Willful Women and 1750s Fiction' is coming out with @uvapress.bsky.social in February 2027. @sinsleyh.bsky.social says it is 'a ROMP'. I am *floored* @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thcentury #c18th www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10256/

A dour looking elite woman is sitting side-saddle on a horse, followed by a ridiculous supercilious little dog. The title of the book, in hot pink, is KILLJOY COMEDY.
@nguthrie.bsky.socialSep 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 plasterworkAnother view, from the side in a landingReproduction of Rowlandson ‘Exhibition Stare Case’ (c1811) with Royal Academy visitors toppling down it