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#c18th is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 10 people shared 46 posts with it — around 2 a day. Activity is up 0% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 9 with 3 posts.

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Richard Ansell
@richardjansell.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Green cover of the book 'Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765–1798'. The image shows an 18th-century caricature of a male servant carrying books and wine.
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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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Jesse Locker
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Johan Pasch the Elder, The Hen Picture (Hönstavlan), 1747, Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 88 cm (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm). There is an explanation to this painting, but it's probably better without one. #c18th
A painting of 6 hens with the heads of ladies of the Swedish court and, in the background, an alarmed rooster
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Jesse Locker
@jessemlocker.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
Before Moo Deng, there was Clara, the celebrity rhinoceros who enchanted Europe in the 1740s and 50s 🗃 #c18th
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Clara the Rhinoceros in Paris in 1749, oil on canvas Staatliches Museum Schwerin
An écorché figure, front view, with left arm extended, showing the bones and the fourth order of muscles, with a Clara the rhinoceros in Amsterdam in the background. Line engraving by J. Wandelaar, 1742.
News-sheet reporting on Clara in Vienna with engraving by Elias Baeck (1746)
Pietro Longhi Clara the Rhinoceros in Venice 1751 Oil on canvas, 62 x 50 cm Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
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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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Prof. Elaine Chalus
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
almost 3 years ago
'From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the Huygens Institute and various partners.' 🗃 #earlymodern #c18th
Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records

nltimes.nl

Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records

From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the...
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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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Richard Ansell
@richardjansell.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
Very satisfying to approve the final proofs this morning – my edition of four travel journals by 18th-century servants should be out in November! I hope they will be useful for all kinds of research and teaching on travel, travel writing and social history #skystorians #18thc #c18th #history
Cover of a book called Servants Abroad, with an illustration of a male servant in 18th-century dress, carrying books and wine.
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Richard Ansell
@richardjansell.bsky.social
12 months ago
Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th
No Country for Travellers?

uclpress.co.uk

No Country for Travellers?

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...
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