Doorknob (c1720-30) in the municipal historical museum, Bamberg #c18th #c18 #18thc

Why be a bishop if you can be a prince-bishop? Here, the very princely reception hall of the palace of the secular and ecclesiastical rulers of Bamberg up to the end of the Empire (not that far in the future when this room was completed in 1709) #c18th #c18 #18thc

"Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.'

Four heads of putti (c1760), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg #c18th #c18 #18thc

Trompe l’oeil –o trampantojo– de 'Mesa revuelta del Marqués de Astorga, Conde de Altamira', 1787, por Miguel Malmonge, procedente de la colección de dicho aristócrata, adquirido por el estado español en 9000 euros. Incluye un ejemplar del número CXXIX del periódico ilustrado ‘El Censor’ #XVIII #C18

St Notburga with the miraculous sickle which remained suspended in the air to allow her to skive off work in order to feed the poor with the bread she holds in her apron (Munich, c1775-80), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg #c18th #c18 #18thc

Harlequin costume (German, #c18th #c18 #18thc), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

Memento mori (c1720-25) carved by Paul Egell of Mannheim, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg #c18th #c18 #18thc

Typographical decoration, Madrid, c.1732.

Christian Seybold, self-portrait (1759), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg #c18th #c18 #18thc

Died #OnThisDay 1786 Princess Amelia, the last of the children of George II and Queen Caroline. She had a particularly bad relationship with her brother, Frederick, Prince of Wales. Super portrait of her by Hudson at the Yale Center for British Art. #skystorians

The Chinese tower and guesthouse (the latter geschlossen for renos), plus urban surfer dudes, English Garden, Munich (1792) #c18th #c18 #18thc

A circa 1745 Chantilly porcelain wine bottle cooler (seau à bouteille) lobed and decorated with a multi-flower plant on two sides, the twig handles with small encrusted flowers. The painting inspired by Meissen decoration, a short and sweet container for a half bottle of wine.

Porcelain from the Nymphenburg factory in a small museum at the palace #c18th #c18 #18thc

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, immediate best-seller & enduring classic, published #OTD 1726; political satire which introduced words Lilliput, Brobdingnag & Yahoos to English Language; inspired Voltaire, Joyce, Orwell, and political satirists. Aquatint & etching by Gilray 1803, Met Museum

Electoral coach and sleighs, Nymphenburg #c18th #c18 #18thc

From painter Benjamin West’s 1797 commission for eccentric William Beckford‘s gothic revival folly Fonthill Abbey. These apocalyptic scenes were for the planned but unrealised “Revelation Chamber”, where Beckford had wished to place his own tomb.

Pagodenburg, a further pavilion at Nymphenburg #c18th #c18 #18thc

Lot 43. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch Delft blue and white brush back (borstelrug), circa 1730; 15.9 cm long10 cm wide. Price Realised USD 381 (Estimate USD 1,500 - USD 2,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025 www.alaintruong.com/2025/10/dutc...

Badenburg, a bathing pavilion in the grounds of Nymphenburg #c18th #c18 #18thc

I'm back in Toronto, but if you'll indulge me the travel snaps will continue! Here, Amalienburg, a pavilion in the grounds of the Nymphenburg palace #c18th #c18 #18thc

Nymphenburg Palace, Munich #c18th #c18 #18thc

@f18cal.bsky.social , Bill Runacre, and myself are glad to have signed a new contract with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! The book should be entitled: "The Apex of Jacobitism: Challenges, Cultures, and Legacies of the 1715 rising" More to come!

Papal medal (1733) depicting the front of the basilica of St John Lateran, Münzsammlung, Munich #c18th #c18 #18thc

Faciliter la recherche dans @gallicabnf.bsky.social, offrir un instrument de recherche pour les étudiants et chercheurs en histoire des sciences : tels sont les objectifs du nouveau corpus, les Fondamentaux des sciences et des techniques, qui vient d’être mis en ligne gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/fr/h...

#Vendredilecture Mise en ligne des actes du colloque "L’opéra de cour en France (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) : goût, espaces, pratiques" par le CRCV ; avec l'aide financière du CMBV et de l'UMR 5317 - IHRIM ➡️ journals.openedition.org/crcv/34857

Today's historic event in the Vatican seems a reasonable moment to look again at the last (British) royal to have stood an outside chance of becoming Pope... historyofparliament.com/2025/03/06/h...

François Boucher, portrait of Madame de Pompadour (1756), maîtresse en titre (the main one) of Louis XV, Alte Pinakothek #c18th #c18 #18thc

A basket collected by Captain Cook once thought to be from the South Seas but now believed to be from Pacific Northwest Indigenous nations, made in the mid-18th century. This is at Glasgow and I'm looking forward to connecting and teaching with this and lots of other belongings in the archives.

Join us for the online launch of The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England, a collection of biographical essays about lesser-known figures from 18C book history! The event is free to attend but booking is essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... #18thC #18c #18thCentury #BookHistory

François Boucher, portrait of Marie-Louise O'Murphy aka de Morphy (1752), one of the petites maîtresses (minor mistresses) of Louis XV, Alte Pinakothek #c18th #c18 #18thc @museumbums.bsky.social

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Girl with a lapdog (c1770-75), Alte Pinakothek #c18th #c18 #18thc

Jean-Etienne Liotard, The Breakfast (c1754), Alte Pinakothek #c18th #c18 #18thc

At the Courtauld.

Talking pish. Final words on this topic ... On no account must "Pish" be sung! Another SONG from Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge Melancholy, 4th ed. (1712), p. 240 #English #language #archaic #music #lyrics

”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

Maurice Quentin de la Tour, portrait of Elisabeth Ferrand meditating on Newton (c1752), Alte Pinakothek #c18th #c18 #18thc

Rosalba Carriera, The Fate Clotho (never looking prettier) with her thread (c1730-40), Alte Pinakothek, Munich #c18th #c18 #18thc

Court theatre of the Residenz (1751-55), designed by François Cuvilliés #c18th #c18 #18thc

One of the weirder pieces in the Schatzkammer in the Residenz at Munich: a greenstone mask with bulging onyx eyes and hands (Olmec, c1-300 CE), set in a baroque niche of gold with gilt silver and bronze (c1720), possibly made by Guillielmus de Groff in Munich #c18th #c18 #18thc

In the Residenz, Munich #c18th #c18 #18thc

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.