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Tag Archives: Isaac Cruikshank
mad for a mansion
Ahh. The woes of Britain’s greatest hero, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. And all he wanted was a little place in the country, do a little hunting, and stretch out. Yet eight years and a procession of at least … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged battle of waterloo, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Duke of Wellington The Iron Duke, Galbraith Lowry Cole, Isaac Cruikshank, John Churchill, John Soane, Lord Gage the Garden of England, Luton Hoo Lady Salisbury, Robert Seymour, Robert Smirke, Sir Henry Wellesley, The Duke of Wellington
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search for a palace
A humble abode? Having house-hunting difficulties? Looking for a vacation retreat? Just consider the woes of Britain’s greatest hero. All he wanted was just a little place in the country… At the end of the war that began in 1914 … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Battle of Salamanca, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Calrke Jervoise Hampshire estate, Hugh Laurie, Isaac Cruikshank, John Churchill, John Soane, Kitty Pakenham, Lord Egremont Busbridge, Lord Essex, Lord Fitzwilliam, Robert Smirke, Sir George Bowyer, Somerhill Kent
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300 POUNDS OF JOY: THE SKINNY ON THE FLABBY
Fat flabby annie was incredibly big She weighed just about sixteen stone And then a fake dietician went and put her on a diet Now she looks like skin and bone. Do the meditation and yoga And she’s thrown away … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Andre Ferre, Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant Ferre, Belushi and Ackroyd, Belushi and Aykroyd, Biblical Nephilim, Bruce Snowdon, Cary Grant, Diane Arbus Jewish Giant, Dionysis, Fit Light Yogurt, Harold Huge, Ibrahim and Sugar Cube, Ibrahim the Mad, Isaac Cruikshank, L.C. Geerts, Mae West, Marc Hartzman, Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy, Obesity, Ray Davies, Renaissance Art, Richard Wagner, Ron English, Shakespeare Falstaff, The Kinks, The Pete Lewis Band, Titian, Valkyrie Brunhilde, Ward Hall, William Heath, William Shakespeare, Zeuss
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MONSTERS FROM THE DREAM OF REASON
After his release from prison in November, 1703, for his satiric and incendiary pamphlet, ” The Shortest Way With the Dissenters”, Danel Defoe became a government spy, the tool of the people who had him freed, mistrusted and hated where … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Bernardino Parenzano, Daniel Defoe, George Cruikshank, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe, Thomas Rowlandson, Tory Minister Harley, William Heath, William Hogarth, www.visionofbritain.org.uk
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MINESTRONIES AND MACARONIES
“Why did yankee doodle stick a feather in his hat and call it macaroni? Back in Pre-Revolutionary America when the song ‘Yankee Doodle’ was first popular, the singer was not referring to the pasta ‘macaroni’ in the line that reads … Continue reading
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Tagged British pictorial satire, British pictorial satire and cartoon, Carrington Bowles, Dorothy Boyle, George Townshend, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Mark Bryant, Mary Darly, Robert Dighton, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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SELF RESTRAINT TO SELF INDULGENCE
”If Horace Walpole was right—that the world is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel—the English were the most thoughtful people in the world. They were polite and considerate, not pushy or boastful; the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummel, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Duke of Rutland, Emma Hamilton, Fanny Burney, George Cruikshank, Horace Walpole, Isaac Cruickshank, Isaac Cruikshank, Lady Emma Hamilton, Lady Huntingdon, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Dartmouth, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Shellabager, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Gainsborough, Tony Mayer
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