18th Centuryists

Portrait plaquette of Sir Isaac Newton (Wedgwood, c1775) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Off-white, unglazed oval portrait plaquette of Newton wearing an open-necked shirt and mantle draped over his shoulders, hair short and natural. Behind him, a tiny falling star or comet with a burning tail

The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions

@wisdompedlars.bsky.social

Some of the antiquarian books we have for auction this week. Auctions end Sunday, from 8pm (UK time) #antiquarian #bibliophile #history #BookTwitter #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern #18thcentury #rarebooks #bookcollecting #bookauctions ebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...

Cronologia

@cronologia.bsky.social

Goethe studied law in Leipzig and Strasbourg before the fame, but poetry kept pulling at him. In 1775, a young duke called him to Weimar—not to write, but to help run a duchy. He said yes and became a privy councillor overseeing mines, roads, and finances. #Goethe #WeimarHistory #18thCentury

The London Stage Database

@londonstagedb.bsky.social

📣New on the blog: MIT historian Jeffrey Ravel reveals how LSDB data is helping power a new global research collaboration that will change how we understand #theatrehistory across languages + cultures: blogs.uoregon.edu/londons…. #digitalhumanities #18thc #18c #history #dataviz

Red banner reading "London Stage Data in a Transnational Context" layered over a bubble graph with circles labeled London, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, Saint-Domingue, and Copenhagen.

Anna M. Thane

@annamthane.bsky.social

3 days ago

Look forward to September! Here is a list of new #non_fiction #books about the #18thcentury scheduled for next month: regency-explorer.net/new-releases/ #Regency #Napoleon #history #18thc #JaneAusten

A compilation of 24 covers of books about the 18th century. You find the whole list by following the link in the skeet

neil guthrie

@nguthrie.bsky.social

3 days ago

Small silver boxes for gaming counters or cosmetic patches (English, c1710) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Closer view (and better photograph) of the QA box

Deidre Lynch

@drbibliomane.bsky.social

3 days ago

#18thc pals, let's feel smug: WE know, though the Guardian evidently doesn't, that the genre of the secret history actually launches in 1709, w/ Delarivier Manley's Secret Memoirs and Manners . .. from the New Atalantis (which I'm teaching the week after next!) www.theguardian.com/books….

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The rise of ‘biogossip’: Rachel Cusk’s Natalie Portman novel is the latest in a delicious literary lineage

The much-discussed Life of M is the latest in a lineage of celebrity satire that spans from Virginia Woolf to The Devil Wears Prada

Birdie's Bindings

@birdiesbindings.bsky.social

Another pamphlet which will be available to purchase at the Cambridge Living History Fair in October. This time some figure dances from 1711, complete with wonderful notation! #bookbinding #livinghistory #18thcentury #historicaldance #dance #reenactment

Alexander Huber

@c18ah.bsky.social

In eighteenth-century literary history: birth of Judith Cowper Madan (1702-1781) and Henry Carey (1687-1743). Poetry available in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: www.eighteenthcenturypoet… #c18th #poetry #DH #OTD

Henry Carey (1687-1743) / © National Portrait Gallery, London

Association for Scottish Literature

@asls.org.uk

Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d, And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d; But now unroof’d their Palace stands, Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands… #OTD, 26 Aug 1787, Robert Burns engraved this #poem on a window in Stirling #C18 burnsmuseum.wordpress.com….

Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787
Robert Burns

Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d,
And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d;
But now unroof’d their Palace stands,
Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands;
Fall’n indeed, and to the Earth
Whence grovelling reptiles take their birth.
The injur’d STEWART-line are gone,
A Race outlandish fills their throne:
An idiot race, to honour lost—
Who know them best despise them most.

@bookswain.bsky.social

My copy of a book published in 1791 that contains the first English translation of France's first written constitution, the Constitution of 1791. It begins with the Declaration of the Rights of Man, & of the Citizens, which was adopted by the Assemblée Nationale Constituante #OTD in 1789. 📚💙 🇫🇷

A page from an old 18th century book: “FRENCH CONSTITUTION,
Sc, Eơc. Cc.
Declaration of the Rights of Man, and of the Citizens.
THE Reprefentatives of the French people, formed into a National Affembly, confider-ing that ignorance, forgetfulnefs, or contempt of the Rights of Men, are the fole caules of public grievances, and of the corruption of government, have refolved to exhibit, in a folemn Declaration, the natural, unalienable, and facred Rights of Man, in order that this Declaration, ever prefent to all the Members of the SociaL Body, may inceffantly remind them of their rights and of their duties; to the end that the acts of the legiflative power, and thofe of the executive power, being able to be every moment compared with the end of all political inftitutions, may acquire the more refpect; in order allo that the remontrances of the citizens, founded henceforward on fimple and inconteffible..”

#history #booksky 🗃️ #18thc #c18th

Page from an old 18th century book: Principles, may ever tend to maintain the Confi-tution, and to promote the general good.
For this reafon, the National Affembly recog nizes, and declares in the prefence, and under the aufpices of the Supreme Being, the following Rights of Men and of Citizens:
ARTICLE FIRST.
ALL men are born, and remain, free and equal in rights; focial diftinctions cannot be founded but on common utility.
II. The end of all political affociations is the prefervation of the natural and imprefcriptible rights of man: thefe rights are liberty, property, fecurity, and refiftance againit oppreffion.
III. The principle of fovereigny refides effenti-ally in the nation: no body of men, no individual, can exercile an authority that does not emanate exprefsly from that fource.
IV. Liberty confifts in the power of doing every thing except that which is hurtful to another: hence, the exercife of the natural rights of every man, has no other bounds than thofe that are neceffary to enfure to the other members of fociety the enjoyment of the fame rights: thole bounds to be determined by the law only.
V. The law has a right to forbid thofe actions alone, that are hurtful to fociety. Whatever is not forbidden by the law, cannot be hindered; and no perfon can be confrained to do that which the law ordaineth not.
VI.”

#france 🇫🇷 #frenchhistory #historyoffrance

The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱

@theunhurriedreader.bsky.social

Years ago, now, #StephanieHoward-Smith was on the Queen Mary, London team on University Challenge and said that she was studying for a PhD on on the cultural history of lapdogs in the eighteenth century. I've wanted to it ever since—much of it is academically paywalled, of course. #c18 #c18th #18thc

neil guthrie

@nguthrie.bsky.social

Painting of an Asian emerald dove perched on the branch of a citrus tree by an unidentified Indian 'Company School' artist for the British market (Lucknow or Calcutta, c1775-85), at Christie's by private sale (price on request) #c18 #c18th #18thc

Translucent and opaque pigments with gum arabic, pencil and pen on paper, Persian inscription in black ink and numbered '505' below, Latin identificatory inscription in pencil in the upper left corner, verso plain with '8' written in pencil near the upper edge, mounted, framed and glazed. Dimensions 18¹/₂ x 11³/₈ in. (47.1 x 29cm.)

Bienengeschichte

@bienengeschichte.bsky.social

Kennt ihr das? Ihr findet eine Zeitungsdebatte über spezielle Imkereitechniken aus den 1770ern und müsst jetzt den Stein des Anstoßes in einer englischen Zeitung der 1760er finden? 🕳 #Imkerei #18thCentury #FrüheNeuzeit #Bienen #Zeitung

neil guthrie

@nguthrie.bsky.social

Seal (English, c1800) #c18 #c18th #18thc. Mood 😳

Tiny seal (about the size of the nail on my little finger) made of a pale, clear stone set in a gold fob. The stone is engraved (in reverse, for sealing) with an image of a moth approaching a burning candle, the inscription DELUSION above.

Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa

@drgsespinosa.bsky.social

Estantería de la Villa Monserrate en Sintra, en la que residió a finales del XVIII el escritor prerromántico y orientalista William Beckford, autor de ‘Vathek’ #C18

Matthew L Reznicek

@drreznicek.bsky.social

#romanticism #c18

Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social

Lecturer in British Romantic Literature University of Glasgow Full time permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...

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John O'Brien

@johnobrien.bsky.social