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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 14h

14 Oct 1633: At St. James' Palace #London, the future King James II & VII of England Scotland Ireland is born #otd (NPG)

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 23h

Ancestral Gallery (1726-31), Residenz, Munich, designed by François Cuvilliés, with Wittelsbach dynastic portraits #c18th #c18 #18thc

Long gallery with floor-ceiling-portraits set into the panelling, surrounded by gilt rococo boiseries

One of history's ironies is that the legitimist line of the Stuarts (who were at pains to emphasise how British they were in comparison with the Hanoverian usurpers) is now represented by the Duke of Bavaria (who has never advanced his claim to the Bristish thrones)

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween costume ideas from Simon Witgeest's 1739 book of magic tricks, Het verbeetert en vermeerdert natuurlyk toverboek, of 't Nieuw speel-tooneel der konsten... archive.org/details/hetv...

An illustration from a Dutch 18th-century manual showing a man demonstrating the use of gag knives, arrows, and swords

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 1d

Capability Brown rendered in southern Germany: the English Garden, Munich #c18th #c18 #18thc (and later)

View of lawns and tress with t rut owners of the city in the distance

View of a stream with a small artificial waterfall

The Monopteros (folly composed of a circle of columns with a green domed roof) on a hillock, seen from a distance, surrounded by trees

The Monopteros (completed 1837) seen up close, from below. In the centre of the circle of columns is a shorter column with laudatory inscriptions.

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 2d

Vive la Deuxième République ! (But if blue states want to return to the Crown and join the socialist monarchy that is Canada, that’s ok too 😉 )

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 2d

Theatine church of St Cajetan and St Adelaide, Munich (façade, 1765-68; interior largely completed by 1688; badly damaged in WWII and restored) #c18th #c18 #18thc

Façade in yellow ochre with twin towers, completed in 1768. Central pediment with arms of Elector Maximilian II and his wife Theresa Kunegonda, daughter of King John III Sobieski of Poland (aunt of Maria Clementina, wife of the Old Pretender)

Frothy white plaster interior with dark wooden baroque pulpit

Detail of a barley-sugar twisted columns in a side chapel with jaunty putti riding on vines encircling the columns (completed 1768)

Quite modest lead sarcophagi of the Wittelsbach dynasty in the crypt. Here, Maximilian II and Theresa Kunegonda in the middle, hers decorated with tacky bouquets of red and white carnations from the Polish consulate

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Austin Glatthorn @glatthorn.bsky.social · 3d

A paper model of the Schwarzenberg #theatre (1766) in Český Krumlov. It’s a nice reminder of my last two summers teaching there. I can’t wait to revisit it again.

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 3d

Fountain (not functioning) on the corner of the Preysing palace (1723-28), Munich #c18th #c18 #18thc

Grey stone sculpture on the corner of a grey stucco building. An urn on a pedestal with a dolphin (heraldic, not naturalistic) at the base

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 4d

Zachari Logan, Wildman Number 15 (2019). Definite influence of the wodewose and the self-portrait by Dürer (which I'll be seeing tomorrow in Munich! travel snaps to follow). Also Liotard's self-portrait with a beard, and Logan certainly knows his Mary Delaney - so more than a bit #c18th #c18 #18thc

Head of a young man in blue pencil on mylar. The man's beard is a mass of delicate foliage and flowers, with a moth perched on it. The head is placed towards the bottom of the transparent mylar sheet; the head fades out towards the top, so we see the man's forehead but not his hair. Most of the sheet is blank

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The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social · 6d

On the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751, a swathe of students and fellows of @ox.ac.uk composed verses of condolence, many in Latin and in English and a smattering in other languages. John Swinton MA of Christ Church showed off by offering two: one in Phoenician and the other in Etruscan.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 5d

With its "medico-electrical apparatus," was Dr. James Graham's "celestial bed" in his "Temple of Health" in 1779 London a prototype for DJT's "med bed"?
There are just too many ways in which the #18thc is a useful guide to the hucksterism of 2025 America.
daily.jstor.org/the-prince-o...

Black and white image showing a nubile woman, in deshabille, reclining on the Celestial Bed, a kind of couch with a canopy over it. Statue of Mercury in a niche behind her.

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 5d

Haha!

neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 5d

Tell that to my cousin Henry Victor William Blundell-Hollinshead-Blundell (one of the people I am able remind that they are more Guthrie than Habsburg!)

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 5d

'Neil in the Yellow Room' (who could that be?) by © Kris Knight (2025)

Portrait of a middle-aged white man seen from the chest up, head tilted to his right. He wears glasses with (from Rapp Optical on College Street in Toronto) and a pale blue shirt (Lord Willy's, NYC), open at the neck, with orange buttons. In the background, glimpses of a drawing (of a young man by Florent Manelli), a light blue and white ceramic plate (repro Hungarian 17C) hung on the yellow wall behind him and a white folding door to a 1950s galley kitchen in midtown Toronto. He's having a good hair day.

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 6d

If I ever get a tattoo it would be this (maybe with the opening words) - but I won't because my (keloid/cheloid) skin turns bumpy when it scars

The flourish Corporal Trim makes in the air with his stick, graphically represented on the page with a repeatedly curling squiggle in IX.4 of Laurence Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 7d

On eBay now, a portrait of Sir Henry Raeburn on blue glass by William or Thomas Tassie #c18th #c18 #18thc

When held to the light, the blue colour of the glass is apparent.

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Richard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 8d

A circa 1730-35 du Paquier tureen and stand decorated with Chinese-inspired scenes within fan-shape cartouches, now in the Frick Museum. You have to love those fish handles. (see ALT)

Tureen and Stand

Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory (Austrian, 1718−1744)
DATE ca. 1730–35
MEDIUM Hard-paste porcelain
DIMENSIONS Tureen: 7 × 12 1/2 in. (17.8 × 31.8 cm) Stand: 16 5/8 × 10 3/8 in. (42.2 × 26.4 cm)
CREDIT LINE Gift from the Melinda and Paul Sullivan Collection, 2016
ACCESSION NUMBER 2016.9.07

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 8d

Good morning!

[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]

A screaming head modeled in wax, surrounded by demons and stylized flames

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 8d

Thomas Patch, The Golden Asses (1761), Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Conn. #c18th #c18 #18thc

Large conversation piece of grand tourists (the asses of the title) in a ballroom hung with green silk wallpaper and portraits. Chequeboard marble floor in brown, white and black. Patch has depicted himself at the right, brandishing his palette and brush, astride a life-sized sculpture of a golden ass. In the foreground, a dog plays on the edge of collection of silver and silver gilt vessels placed on the marble floor. The picture is in the reading room at the Lewis Walpole.

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 9d

New exhibition at the Lewis Walpole library: Caricaturas, Campagna and Connoisseurs: Thomas Patch and the British Grand Tour in Eighteenth-Century Italy (to 15 December) #c18th #c18 #18thc walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/exh...

Exhibitions | Lewis Walpole Library

walpole.library.yale.edu

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AHMUF @ahmuf.bsky.social · 10d

📖 Parution : Bernard Michon (dir.), "Le café en France
(XVIIe-XIXe siècles). Production, commercialisation et consommation
d’une marchandise exotique", La Geste/Presses universitaires de Nouvelle-Aquitaine, septembre 2025.

🖱️ Lien éditeur ➡️ www.gesteditions.com/puna/le-cafe...

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 10d

Nice!

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 10d

Set of three grisaille paintings on leather depicting theatrical figures, possibly from the Commedia dell'arte (French, early #c18th #c18 #18thc), with Matthew Holder, London

The figures have heightened expressions and animated gestrures: one sings from an open songbook, another brandishes a jester's staff and the third plays the bagpipes. Painted in greys heightened with white

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 10d

Sublime dreams: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist, architect & archaeologist, whose views of Rome & imaginary prisons influenced Neoclassicism & Romanticism; born #OTD 1720.
Colosseum, Vedute di Roma, etching 1757 | Plate III Carceri d’Invenzione,etching 1761
Princeton University Art Museum

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 11d

I’m hoping to find it under the Christmas tree :)

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