neil guthrie (@nguthrie.bsky.social)

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:46 PM

The Louisiana Foundation for sure

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 11:16 AM

Sugar basket by Hester Bateman (or workshop), 1783. With Nelson & Nelson, NYC #c18 #c18th #18thc

Ovoid bowl with c-scroll swing handle; short support and raised foot. Pierced ornament on bowl and foot. Beading. Detachable cobalt glass liner. Fully marked. Very good condition.
Dimensions: H (with handle) 7 1/4 x D 3 7/8 in. Weight (silver only): 5 troy ounces

@doctorow.pluralistic.net Oct 10, 2026, 4:53 PMReposted by @nguthrie.bsky.social

Were public toilet walls the @Twitter of the 18th century? Maximillian Novak on how a little-known book of “latrinalia” offers a unique and fascinating window into Georgian life: publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8301060...

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:09 AM

'Hans Sloane' botanical plate (Chelsea, c1756), George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto. This would be the perfect serving dish for (Canadian) Thanksgiving dinner this weekend #c18 #c18th #18thc

Off-white oval plate with lightly scalloped edge. Painted in green and brown tones - a flowering branch, a large swalow-tailed butterfly, smaller insects. Design based on drawings made by Georg Dionysius Ehret in the Chelsea Physic Garden and published by Philip Miller between 1755 and 1760. Pieces like this are called 'Hans Sloane' dishes after Sir Hans, founder of the Garden.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:23 AM

Vase for a garniture (Vauxhall, c1764-68), MFA, Boston #c18 #c18th #18thc

Vase in Sèvres blue and gilt painted foliage with a white reserve painted with a scene of a girl in a woodland setting. Two rather ear-shaped white handles with gilding. On the blue and gilt lid is a finial of pink flowers and green leaves. H. 13 cm (5 1/8 in.). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jessie and Sigmund Katz Collection. Inv. no. 1988.793a-b.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:36 AM

I think it must be ‘who was that awful woman?’ (Liz Truss)

@lewiswalpolelib.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 10:43 PMReposted by @nguthrie.bsky.social

Applications for the 2027-28 #Fellowship year are now being accepted through November 2.

Apply today apply.interfolio.com/186941
Questions? Email [email protected] info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/...
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@YaleLibrary

Detail from an 18th-century satirical print with 3 people (Louis 16 on Marie Antoinette's shoulders, and she on Edmund Burke's) and the words The Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships & Travel Grants in Eighteenth-Century Studies.

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 7:41 PM

😳

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 3:25 PM

‘No, she’s just Welsh!’

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:48 AM

Hardstone nécessaire with gold mounts (English, c1760), recently sold at Christie’s (not to me!) for €2,048 (incl. premium; est. €2,000-3,000) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Tapering cylindrical formed of grey striated agate, the gold mounts chased with rococo scrolls and flowers, with diamond push-button, the hinged cover revealing a penknife with steel blade, an ear-spoon / toothpick, a pen's mount and a later gilt-metal spoon, apparently unmarked and with later French control mark for 18 K. Height 10.2 cm (4 1/8 in).

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 6:06 PM

Mine now 😁

@jacklynch000.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:12 PMReposted by @nguthrie.bsky.social

READER OF THE DAY, 7 OCTOBER 2026 Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, c. 1770

18th-c painting of a young woman (girl?) in a yellow dress reading a 12mo

@profmurdoch.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 2:24 PMReposted by @nguthrie.bsky.social

Colleagues, for those interested in #Jacobite #Hanoverian and other #18thCentury #History topics,
say Bonjour to
@camillerocher.bsky.social

@funkyplaid.bsky.social @hermiston.bsky.social @nguthrie.bsky.social @murrayp.bsky.social @mcfras15.bsky.social @emmaforsberg.bsky.social
#Jacobites #18thC

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 11:38 AM

There's a Chamberlain's Worcester vase (c1820) with @magdalenoxford.bsky.social on it, anyway. (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Description from Bernard Rackham, Catalogue of the Herbert Allen Collection of English Porcelain (V&A, 1922), page 83, transcribed in the alt text for the second pic.

Plate 65 from the catalogue, with a B&W photograph of a vase with 'inverted bell-shaped body with two scrolled handles, each topped by a gilt head wearing a winged helmet. Square plinth, domed cover with knob in the form of a gilt conventional cauliflower. The view, of which the title 'Oxford' is written in red on the base of the vase, is painted in colours on one side of the body. The reverse is decorated with a formal pattern of festoons, rosettes, and stars in gold on a pale salmon-red ground. The cover and lower part of the body moulded with acanthus foliage.' The cover is marked 'Chamberlain's Worcester' and '155 New Bond Street London' in red. Heihgt 8 3/4 inches. The scene is adapted from plate i of The Copper Plate Magazine 1 (1792).

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 9:57 AM

Inkstand with view of Merton College (Chamberlain’s Worcester, c1816), LACMA. (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc. Could there be one with a view of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social ?!

Pink and white scrolly inkstand with gilding the central panel has a naturalistic view of Merton chapel in brown tones. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. Walter T. Wells, photograph © Museum Associates/LACMA (56.30.13a-d)

@liamsims.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 3:07 PMReposted by @nguthrie.bsky.social

Quite like ‘Sir Dugly* Digges’ as a typo! In the auction catalogue of duplicates from John Moore’s library, sold in Cambridge in 1742 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Cam.d.742.1(2).

*Dudley

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 10:09 AM

Teapot (Wedgwood, c1770), at Bonhams, NYC (est. US$2,00-3,000) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Catalogue description:

Attributed to the Rhodes Workshop, the globular shape perfectly suited for a concentric 'target' pattern painted in chestnut-red and centred on each side with a five-pointed pinwheel floret in black and chestnut, the leaf molded spout and scroll handle mottled in a similar palette, 5 1/2 in. (14cm) high, both cover and base marked with numeral '4' in red

@nguthrie.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:37 PM

Sorry I’ll have to miss this, @funkyplaid.bsky.social and @dparrish0.bsky.social !

@funkyplaid.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 6:42 PMReposted by @nguthrie.bsky.social

Our new JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop Series launches Tue, 13 Oct at 5pm UKT with a discussion about academic publishing with @dparrish0.bsky.social (JST) and @siobhanmup.bsky.social (MUP). Make sure to bring your questions, tips, and anecdotes!

Full programme: jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

@muddyyork.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 11:24 AMReposted by @nguthrie.bsky.social

On this date in 1757, the Toronto shoreline was first detailed on a French map. It identifies the Credit River (Rivière au Credit), the Humber River (R. Toronto), Fort Rouillé on the Exhibition Grounds, and the Scarborough Bluffs (Les Grandes Ecores).