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wedgwood and company: men for all seasons
They were the most brilliant group in England, and quite possibly the most eccentric. Some are forgotten today, but some of them changed the world…. Eighteenth century England. Gifted, intelligent, and odd, it was a curious mixture of brilliance and … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Samuel Johnson, George Stubbs, James Brindley, James Keir, James Watt, John Baskerville, John Flaxman, Josiah Wedgwood, Lichfield Group, Lunar Society, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Bentley, William Hackwood, William Withering
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pottery shots and shards: wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood, portrayed below in a medallion of his own jasper ware by William Hackwood, became the foremost potter of eighteenth century England. What made Wedgwood famous was the development of such desirable new wares as green glaze, Queen’s Ware, … Continue reading
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Tagged David Whitehouse Corning, Industrial Revolution England, John Flaxman, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Portland Vase, Wedgewood jasper, Wedgwood pottery, Wedgwood Queen's Ware, William Hackwood
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wedgewood : sunshine on the village green
Wedgewood and his friends. The were the most brilliant group in England, and quite possibly the most eccentric. Some are forgotten today- but some of them changed the world. Josiah Wedgewood was born in the Staffordshire village called Burslem in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, James Watt, John Flaxman, Joseph Priestly, Josiah Wedgewood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Bolton, Portland Vase Wedgewood, Ray Davies, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, The Kinks, Thomas Day
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petworth: painter’s paradise
He was the perfect patron. Lord Egremont’s whims included art and artists, and Turner painted luminous works at Petworth for him. Egremont befriended and encouraged the artist for more than thirty years, from 1809 until Egremont’s death in 1837. Inside … Continue reading
duchess of alba: seven year fling
At about the time that Goya began work on the “Caprichos” , he also began his famous but always somewhat ambiguous affair with the Duchess of Alba, probably the most vivid figure that her society produced. In 1795 she visited … Continue reading
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Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, George Romney, John Flaxman, Joshua Reynolds, Kenneth Clark, Liz Hager, Robert Hughes, Rose-Marie Hagen, Sarah Symmons, The Duchess of Alba, Thomas Gainsborough
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comic history : royal bedding of madcap laughs
The Victorians seemed to have an avaricious relationship with history. They simultaneously were involved in the creation of it and when taking a respite from this burden of civilizing humanity they were reading it; endlessly and for the authors quite … Continue reading
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Tagged British caricature, British Cartoon, Charles Dickens, George Cruickshank, James Gillray, John Flaxman, John Leech, John Leech caricature, John Leech engravings, John Tenniel, Robert Cruickshank, Thackeray, Thomas a Beckett, Thomas Rowlandson, William Makepiece Thackeray
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PASSION FOR POMPEII: “RANDY FOR ANTIQUE”
It was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D. Pompeii. When the ruins came to light, beginning in 1747, they caused a revolution in taste- stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure , and leaving a deposit of … Continue reading
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Tagged Archibald Alison, Benjamin West, Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Greville, Christopher C. Parslow, Claude Lorrain, Dr. Salvatore Ciro Nappo, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eleanor Coade, Emma Hamilton, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Goethe, Goethe Italy, Horace Walpole, Jean Racine, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, John Flaxman, Joseph Addison, Josiah Wedgewood, Josiah Wedgwood, Judith Harris, Karl Weber Pompeii, Lord Nelson, Matthew Boulton, Nicolas Poussin, Queen Maria Carolina of Naples, Richard West, Robert Adam Architect, Robert Fulford, Sir William Hamilton, The Grand Tour, Thomas Gray, William S. Anderson
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AVOIDING THOSE PERIPHERAL REGIONS OF ROMANCE
Call it a poetic faith whose satisfying sense of wonder compelled them to stop short of that marvellous and enticing flame of Promethean enchantment. Heros zigzagging with tolerable chance. “…in the preface to Tom Jones , Fielding formally asserted his belief … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian McCrea, Byron, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, Coleridge, Fanny Burney, G.M. Godden, Henry Fielding, Henry Fuseli, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Flaxman, John Trusler, Larry Laban, Manfred Weidhorn, Martin C. Battestin, Matthew Wickham, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Peter Jan de Voogd, Rev. John Trusler, Richard Hurd, Richard Nordquist, Robin Bates, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Sarah Fielding, Shakespeare, Simon Stein, Simon Varey, Sir Walter Scott, Thackeray, Thomas R. Cleary, Tobias Smollet, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, William Makepiece Thackeray
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REAL REAL GONE: ITS A MAD MAD UNDERWORLD
The main claim is that the Romantics turned the agenda of the Enlightenment on its head with a vengeance; it was crisis in an age of reason, the somewhat logical and not unexpected reaction to a scientific age. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Sturgis, Carl Friedrich Lessing, Dante Alighieri, Edward Young, Ernst Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Isaac Newton, Jim Lane, John Flaxman, John Keats, John Locke, Joseph Wright, Joyce Plesters, Kieron Devlin, Lynne Gibson, Marco Lanzagorta, Mario Praz, Martin Myrone, Michael Cohen, Milton, Peggy Hadden, Peter Swaab, Rembrandt, Richard Cosway, Robert Miles, Romantic Age, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sigmund Freud, Tim Blanning, William Blake, William Hazlitt, Wordsworth
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