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canaletto: from venice to the thames
Canaletto’s iconic painting, A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace is a picture perfect postcard, but behind this idyllic view of eighteenth century London was simply too pleasant. Only a tourist could believe it. In fact, much was happening … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Catchpenny prints, Charles Dickens, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Hyde Park floggings, Judith Dufour, London eighteenth-century, London the Spectator, London the Tatler, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Sheridan, Robert Griffier, Samuel Scott painter, Smith's Square London, Tyburn public hangings
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canaletto: sunny afternoon
Canaletto in London…. The picture is so pleasant, as a matter of fact,that only a tourist could believe it. The eighteenth-century was, above all, a time of wrenching contrast between rich and poor; of starvation, riots, soaring death rates; a … Continue reading
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Tagged Canaletto, Canaletto in England, Charles James Fox, Charles James Fox gambling, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Judith Dufour, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Griffier painter, Samuel Scott painter, William Hogarth
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