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Tag Archives: George Stubbs
high on the hog: boastful splendiferous types
…Of what there is no doubt is that this life was wasteful, extravagant, ostentatious- an appalling contrast, as Dr. Samuel Johnson noted, to the human wretchedness of rural or urban slums; yet it was saved both by its humanity and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Earl of Egremont, George Macaulay Trevelyan, George Stubbs, Henry Fielding, James Boswell, Johann Zoffany, John Berger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Madame Pickwick, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth
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he let the dogs out
George W. Bush: painter. Painter of dogs and landscapes. And dogs in landscapes. … If dogs run free, then why not we Across the swooping plain? My ears hear a symphony Of two mules, trains and rain The best is … Continue reading
wedgwood: let it be with the lunarticks
In the 1790’s however, this great group was fast breaking up. The turn of the century saw the death of many. Thomas Day was killed from a fall from his horse in 1789- with characteristic perversity he had refused to … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Desmond Clarke, Erasmus Darwin, George Stubbs, James Watt, Jenny Uglow, Joseph Priestley, Joseph Wright of Derby paintings, Lichfield Group, Lichfield Group Anna Seward poetess, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Boulton, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Robert E. Schofield, Simon Bloor, The Lunar Society, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton, Tom Bloor
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decided and optimistic views
Josiah Wedgwood and his friends were the most brilliant group in England in the eighteenth-century- brilliant if highly eccentric. Most are forgotten today, but collectively they changed the world… Devotion to science and a respect for the arts were not … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Seward, Desmond Clarke, Erasmus Darwin, George Stubbs, James Brindley, James Watt, Jenny Uglow, Jeremy Bentham, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, Lichfield Group, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Matthew Boulton, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Robert E. Schofield, Sir Joseph Banks, The Lunar Society, Thomas Day, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton, William Rosen
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day: doomed in duplicate
Josiah Wedgwood’s friends numbered some brilliant but odd types. Most are forgotten today. Thomas Day made no great mark in the world beyond establishing an undisputed reputation for almost perfect eccentricity… Thomas Day was even stranger than Erasmus Darwin, whom … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, Esther Milnes, George Stubbs, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Bicknell, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Lunar Society, Thomas Day, Thomas Day Sandford and Merton
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friendship circle
Josiah Wedgwood and his friends. They were the most brilliant group in England in the eighteenth-century, and quite possibly the most eccentric.Some are forgotten today. Most actually. But some of them changed the world. it was a kind of parallel … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, George Stubbs, James Brindley, James Watt, Joseph Priestley, Josiah Wedgwood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Susannah Wedgwood, Tom Wedgwood photographer, Wedgwood Etruria works
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picture this
Children should be seen and not heard…. Hard not to learn something when your father, Josiah Wedgwood frequented such illuminaries in the eighteenth century as James Watt,Joseph Priestley, Erasmus Darwin and on the artistic side, George Stubbs and the poetess … Continue reading
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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proud as a peacock: roly-poly dandy
The Prince Regent’s first visit to Brighton, a short one, took place in 1783 at the invitation of his uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, whom the Prine’s father, George III, regarded with such horror that he had forbidden his son … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummell, Duke of Cumberland, George Prince of Wales, George Stubbs, Henry Holland, John Nash, John Russell painting, King George III, King George IV, King George IV coronation, Martha Gunn, Thomas Rowlandson
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cats cradle: fatal feline attraction
Thorstein Veblen, as the previous post indicated, had little love for pets. Pets to him, represented the power of symbolism, the purchasing of things that people can’t use, and are wasteful, yet are endowed with a measure of status. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged attraction to cats, Francisco Goya, George Stubbs, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Fordism, jaroslav flegr, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Pablo Picasso, Thorstein Veblen
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