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#C18 is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 14 people shared 65 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is up 8% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 9 with 5 posts.

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neil guthrie
@nguthrie.bsky.social
5 days ago
Also recently acquired by the Wadsworth Atheneum, a snuffbox with sea monsters and fish (Meissen, c1760) #c18 #c18th #18thc
Hard-paste porcelain, original gold mounts. H. 4.6 cm, W. 9.3 cm, D. 7.3 cm
From the French Porcelain Society newsletter: 'The ... snuffbox is, to our knowledge, unique. Its decoration combines carefully observed fish with fantastical sea monsters, juxtaposing the empirical study of nature with the imaginative world of myth. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, richly illustrated natural history books and engraved zoological series circulated widely throughout Europe, providing artists with a rich repertory of marine imagery. These publications frequently intermingled carefully observed fish with legendary sea monsters, reflecting an era in which empirical observation and inherited tradition coexisted. The decoration of the box draws upon this visual culture, combining motifs from printed sources into a remarkably inventive composition. The exceptionally refined miniature painting demonstrates the technical and artistic sophistication achieved by Meissen's porcelain painters in the mid-eighteenth century.'
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Emily Brand
@emilybrand.bsky.social
over 2 years ago
FULLY IN LOVE with this suitably dishevelled self-portrait of the future Lady Caroline Lamb walking her dogs in Cavendish Square – just weeks before her wedding in 1805 THAT HAIR! THAT PUG! #c18 #c19
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Association for Scottish Literature
@asls.org.uk
5 months ago
In 1787, Robert Burns acquired a diamond-tipped pen which he used to inscribe poems on windows & chimney-pieces across Scotland. “I Murder Hate” is Burns’s version of “make love, not war” #graffiti, & was etched into a window at the Globe Tavern, Dumfries #WyrdWednesday #C18 #poem #poetry
I Murder Hate
Robert Burns

I murder hate by flood or field,
Tho’ glory’s name may screen us;
In wars at home I’ll spend my blood—
Life-giving wars of Venus.
The deities that I adore
Are social Peace and Plenty;
I’m better pleas’d to make one more,
Than be the death of twenty.

I would not die like Socrates,
For all the fuss of Plato;
Nor would I with Leonidas,
Nor yet would I with Cato:
The zealots of the Church and State
Shall ne’er my mortal foes be;
But let me have bold Zimri’s fate,
Within the arms of Cozbi!
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neil guthrie
@nguthrie.bsky.social
6 days ago
Recently acquired by the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn., a snuffbox depicting the card game Comète and a comet-viewing party (Meissen, c1750-60) #c18 #c18th #18thc
Hard-paste porcelain, original copper-gilt mounts
H. 4 cm, W. 7.5 cm, D. 5.7 cm. 
From the French Porcelain Society newsletter: 'The ... box celebrates the fashionable French card game Comète. Originally known as Manille, the trick-taking game adopted its new name after the spectacular appearance of Halley's Comet in 1682, reflecting the widespread fascination with the celestial phenomenon. Interest in the game was renewed after the comet's predicted return in 1758, first observed by the farmer and amateur astronomer Johann Georg Palitzsch just outside Dresden, confirming Edmond Halley's celebrated calculations. Meissen's painter linked this enthusiasm for astronomy with courtly leisure: the lid depicts an elegant company playing Comète, while the interior shows fashionable figures observing the blazing comet through telescopes. A particularly revealing detail is the inclusion of the Nine of Diamonds, known as la comète, within the comet itself, demonstrating the painter's precise knowledge of the game's rules. Only five examples of this subject are currently known, and the Wadsworth's appears to be the most elaborate and finely painted.'
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neil guthrie
@nguthrie.bsky.social
3 days ago
Watercolour of the eruption of Vesuvius by Pater Fabris for Sir William Hamilton’s Campi phlegræi: Observations on the Volcanos of the Two Sicilies (1776) from the collection of @antiquaries.bsky.social #c18 #c18th #18thc
Over the course of three Society meetings from January 26th, 1775, the diplomat, archaeologist, volcanologist and antiquarian Sir William Hamilton FSA communicated an account of the recent discoveries at Pompeii. His papers were illustrated with a series of gouache paintings by Pietro Fabris, a painter of English and Italian descent. Fabris had accompanied Hamilton on his travels to volcanic sites at Mount Etna, Mount Vesuvius and Lipari. Engravings of these drawings were made by the Society’s engraver, James Basire, and published in ‘Archaeologia’ along with Hamilton’s text. They appear drab and grim in comparison with the vibrant plates shown here, bathed in bright Italian light.

Hamilton’s work on the volcanoes was published in Naples in 1776: Campi phlegræi. Observations on the volcanoes of the Two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society by Sir William Hamilton …. This magnificent folio included 54 dramatic scenes of eruptions, sweeping landscapes, and plates of volcanic rock specimens. Fabris’ attempts at illustrating geological specimens are inexpert, but many of the landscapes have a compositional flair reminiscent of the art of Claude Lorraine and Salavator Rosa, underscored by the new aesthetic of the Sublime in the spectacle of observed volcanic eruptions.

There were several subsequent editions of Campi phlegræi, but the very scarce first edition has always been the most admired and highly-prised. The supplementary volume, illustrating an eruption of Vesuvius in 1779, is so rare that only four other libraries in the world are known to possess a copy.

The Society’s set of Campi phlegræi was donated by Hamilton (who had been elected a Fellow of the Society in 1772); the supplementary volume was added in 1782. The books remain in their original 18th-century paper boards and leather backings, and together constitute one of the most sumptuous publications in the Society’s printed collection.
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dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him)
@hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social
6 months ago
I’ve graduated with a PhD in Classics and History! 👨‍🎓 #c18 #classicsbluesky ‘Agents of Empire: Cultural Imperialism, White British Identity, and the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour’ is available to download and read using the following link: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/….
A photograph of me standing in my graduation robes
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neil guthrie
@nguthrie.bsky.social
8 months ago
Small lidded tureen in the form of a cabbage (Meissen, c1774-1814), with Earle D Vandekar of Knightsbridge #c18th #c18 #18thc
Pale green leaves and bright red/purple  veining. Marcolini period Meissen. Dimensions: 9.5 cm (3.75 in) high, 12.7 cm (5 in) wide, 10.16 cm (4 in) deep. The finial on the lid is formed by a curved cabbage leaf
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Emily Brand
@emilybrand.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
Just a time-honoured way for a Frenchman to sign off his personal correspondence 🥰 #c18
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Emily Brand
@emilybrand.bsky.social
over 2 years ago
Just because sometimes it is good to dwell on the nice things, here is bluestocking Frances Boscawen being thoroughly in love with her husband in 1756 💕 #c18
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