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Over-mantel mirror (c1760), at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (est. £1,500-2,500) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Printed label & inscription (‘propriety is the ground of all comfort’) of one Joshua Hotchkis. Possibly the student of St John’s Cambridge in the 1720s, later a Canon of St Paul’s & Master of the Charterhouse School. In a volume of 1650s religious pamphlets @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (E.12.65).

Large famille rose punchbowl for the export market (China, c1785), at Christie's, Hong Kong, (est. HK$30,000-50,000)

This very large life-size stirrup cup sold today at Bonhams NYC for an equally large sum, $14.300. Really beautifully-decorated and quite amazing, only two other examples like this are known to exist. Those eyes!

'Lucy of Leinster' (watercolour on ivory, 1794), at Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (est. £500-700) #c18 #c18th #18thc

The large armorial engraved bookplate of the antiquary John le Neve (1679-1741). In a manuscript volume of obituary notices for eminent persons dying between 1600 and 1677, begun by Le Neve in October 1717. Now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social MS Add. 97.

François Boucher, The Immaculate Conception, at Christie's, Paris (est. €300,000-500,000) #c18 #c18th #18thc

I like it when shiny things arrive in the post. Here, the Anne/James medal I posted about recently #Jacobite #c18 #c18th #18thc

Hell upon Earth: or the Town in an Uproar. Occasion'd by the late horrible Scenes of Forgery, Perjury, Street-Robbery, Murder, Sodomy, and other shocking Impieties. £2,500 www.abebooks.co.uk/first-editio...

The #Jacobite engraving on the back of my front door is of Princess Louise Marie, James II and VII's daughter, who died in 1712, a few weeks before her 20th birthday #c18 #c18th #18thc

Extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Davies, Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick (1780), Folger Shakespeare Library, shelfmark W.b.473-476 #c18 #c18th #18thc

A woodcut from 'War with the Devil' (a sentiment many no doubt sympathise with) printed in 1737

This is quite cool: Treasury order for the repayment of a £50 loan by George Bubb Dodington to the government for the suppression of the #Jacobite rebellion. At Boone Shares auctions, Antwerp (est. €200-400) #c18 #c18th #18thc

All 18 known surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies are now available in the #HarrissListDigitalArchive (IIIF and full-text), with over 2,600 entries, an interactive map, network analysis, and visualizations: harrisslist.prisms.digital #c18th #HarrissList #DigitalHumanities

If you’re in Toronto on the 22nd #c18 #c18th #18thc vic.utoronto.ca/about-victor...

”Falsehood flies & truth comes limping after it.” Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin, author of A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, died #OTD 1745; champion of liberty, whose Saeva Indignatio inspired Voltaire, Yeats, Joyce, Orwell. Trinity College Dublin

It was only a matter of time before I had to use the (only remaining) blank space offered by the inside of my front door for more #c18 #c18th #18thc engravings (one of them #Jacobite)

A fine porcelain covered soup bowl with stand made at Sèvres circa 1781. Decked out in pearls along the rims and around the flower bouquets. In the Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA.

Very rare covered punchbowl from the Limehouse factory (London, c1746-48), part of the Rosalie Sharp gift to the George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto #c18 #c18th #18thc

Deux nouvelles pièces du service de la laiterie de Rambouillet refont surface www.latribunedelart.com/deux-nouvell...

Pair of French royalist candlesticks (late #c18 #c18th #18thc or early 19th) which cast a shadow of Queen Marie-Antoinette (executed 16 October 1793) in profile. With Antiques de Laval, Tréguier (Côtes d'Armor-Bretagne) #OTD

On this date 329 years ago, date of birth of Nicholas Amhurst (1697-1742). Poems are included in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00153.shtml #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

Rosalie Sharp gallery of English blue & white, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, mostly 17C and #c18 #c18th #18thc

Snuffbox made from Japanese lacquer panels, mounted in gold by François-Thomas Germain (Paris, 1755). At Christie's, Geneva (est. CHF 80,000-120,000) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Pair of diamond earrings said to have belonged to Marie Antoinette, from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (naturalhistory.si.ed...), once owned by heiress Marjorie Post (she who built Mar-a-Lago), here on display at her home, Hillwood, also in Washington

The yellow background could not possibly be brighter it seems, a backdrop to white and gold floral motifs accented with a cloud of white and metallic lace trimmings. Robe à la francaise #1760s #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Clavicules de Salomon, #c18 #c18th #18thc transcription of a cabalistic MS, collection of @antiquaries.bsky.social

This Japanese porcelain bowl that I photographed in the Kyushu Ceramic Museum is remarkable. Circa 1690-1710, the colors are amazing. Chrysanthemums!

This looks fun! URL in alt text. #c18 #c18th #18thc

Snuffbox made in China for the European market (c.1750-60), with Earle D Vandekar of Knightsbridge #c18 #c18th #18thc

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

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...

'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

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

Applications for the 2027-28 #Fellowship year are now being accepted through November 2. Apply today apply.interfolio.com/186941 Questions? Email walpole@yale.edu info: walpole.library.yale.edu/fellowships/... #Long18thCentury #BritishStudies #CommunityofScholars #LewisWalpoleLibrary @YaleLibrary

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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).

Wish I could get to this! URL in the alt #c18 #c18th #18thc

Jewel cabinet (Sèvres, 1825-26) given by King Charles X of France to King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Cooper Hewitt, NYC. (Long) #c18 #c18th #18thc