A Useful Pot To Put Things In

mitresquaremurder:

A General History of the Pyrates, 1724

I really, really want to read what this 18th century account has to say about Mary Read & Anne Bonny…

(via orchidsonfire)

blackpaint20:

“Anleitung zu denen curiösen Wissenschafften” (Guide to the curious sciences) - J.G. Jobs 1717

(via ghosts-in-the-library)

centuriespast:

i12bent:Francisco Goya (Mar 30, 1746 - 1828): The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters - No. 43 from Los Caprichos (The Caprices), 1796-98; published 1799 - Etching and aquatint

artschoolglasses:

A page of 18th Century hairstyles

I will never, ever get tired of looking at the (absurd) hair fashions of the 18th century.

lartdecorative:

Pierre Donzelague, ca. 1711-16

(repainted)

(Source: lartdecoratif)

asplendidaffair:

First editions of Voltaire’s “Candide” from 1759. 

(via ghosts-in-the-library)

labellefilleart:

Self portrait, Rose Adelaide Ducreux

centuriespast:

Charles-Joseph Natoire (Nîmes, 1700-Castel Gandolfo, 1777)

Psyche Welcomed to the Underworld by Pluto and Proserpine

1734-35

Louvre

artemisdreaming:

Three Beauties Representing Snow the Moon and Cherry Blossoms

(Setuzekka-zu, 雪月花図)

Katsukawa Shunshō

Edo period, 1781-1788
hanging scrolls, color on silk
Collection of MOA Museum of Art
Important Cultural Property of Japan

From MOA: “The work superimposes the three hanging scrolls —snow, moon and flower— onto the dynasty’s three talented beauties; Sei-shōnagon, Murasaki-shikibu and Ono-no-komachi. Then it transforms them into contemporary women’s manners. It is said that Sunshō specialized in painting beauties at the request of the nobility and the rich during the Tenmei era (1781-88), and this triptych work is probably also from that period.”

7689j:

One of the Thomas Paine coins from England in the 1790s.

“WE DANCE, PAIN SWINGS”

Source: http://www.newcommonsensebook.com/excerpt_058.php

Lots of other such coins on the same page.

(via damefred)

un-boudoir:

Jean-Baptiste Gautier-Dagoty, Marie-Antoinette jouant de la harpe dans sa Chambre

1777

belaquadros:

René Rambaud

French 1787