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Tag Archives: Tobias George Smollet
Canaletto: not quite picture perfect
Canaletto in London in 1746. He painted A View of the Thames from Lambeth Palace; the best of cities on a sparkling summer day. But what was really happening behind those walls and in those narrow streets on that sunny … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Pope, Canaletto A View of the Thames, Canaletto in England, Charles de Brosses, David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, James Gibbs, Mrs. Cibber, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Owen McSwiney, Peg Woffington, Ranelagh gardens London, Robert Griffier painter, the Adam brothers design, Tobias George Smollet, Wedgewood pottery
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COSTUME, CUSTOM and CONDUCT
Since Roman times, Bath’s hot mineral springs have pumped a quarter of a million gallons of spring water a day at a steady temperature of 49°c. In 1708, Thomas Harrison built the Bath Assembly House, for which the public paid … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Ann Ford, Beau Nash Bath, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Linley, Gainsborough, Giardini violinist, Humphrey Clinker Smollett, James Gillray, Jane Austen Northanger Abbey, John Wood bath, Mrs. Siddons, Ralph Allen Bath, Richard Sheridan, Theodore Dalrymple, Thomas Beckford, Thomas Harrison, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Rowlandson, Tobias George Smollet, Tony Mayer, William Beckford, William Connor Sydney, William Hogarth
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