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C.E. Truesdale Upstate New York, Adirondacks Funeral Director Likes: Playing the bagpipes, military and medical history, Star Wars, the 18th century, redcoats, reading, caffeine, cats, travel, The Decemberists Dislikes: Mornings, sunshine, ketchup, Math, amphibians

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Jacques Aved (1702-1766):

The Marquise de Sainte-Maure d'Origny as a Sultana. 1743.

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Splendid antique gold English Georgian ring dating to the late 18th Century, featuring a frigate ship sepia on thin wafer accented with gold highlights outlining the British flag, stern and gunwales.

via Boylerpf Antique & Vintage Jewelry

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Louvre, Medieval knight’s tomb by Jonathan Grant

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An Officer of the 53rd Foot, Allan Ramsay (attributed to), c. 1757. The Shropshire Regimental Museum.

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Jacques Aved (1702-1766):

Portrait of Count Carl Gustaf Tessin (1695-1770). c. 1740. (detail)

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Small Sword

Dated: circa 1750–60

Culture: German

Medium: gold, steel

Measurements: overall length 36 3/8 inches (92.5 cm); blade length 30 ¾ inches (78.2 cm)

The spirally channelled surfaces and elegant foliage finials on the guards typify the flamboyant Rococo style. The small proportions suggest the sword was made for a young man. Although not hallmarked, this exquisitely detailed gold hilt is probably of either German or Dutch manufacture.

Source: Copyright © 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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I.S. Müller. The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, c. 1760.

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Double barrel English flintlock naval pistol with snap bayonet, 18th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

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Martin Drolling (French:1752-1817) Portrait of a Boy or His Favourite Pet

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Detail from The Cathedral at Havana by Dominic Serre.

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Albertus Seba. Illustration from Locupletissimi Rerum Naturalium Thesauri Accurata Descriptio. 1734. 

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Photo courtesy of Doris Fitzpatrick Photography https://www.facebook.com/DFdorisfitzpatrick/

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IMG_9426-2 by keegan.adriance on Flickr.

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J.B. Du Halde, Louis Le Compte. The Chinese Traveller. 1775.

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Edward Francisco Burney (1760-1848) Portrait of his younger brother Charles Rousseau Burney, late 1770s.

Both men were cousins of the famous novelist and diarist Frances d'Arblay (‘Fanny Burney’), of whom Edward also completed a portrait, and hence nephews to Fanny’s musicologist father Dr Charles Burney.

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Louise Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755 - 1842): Portrait of Marie Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse (1784) (via Wikimedia Commons)

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1795 Anton Graff - Portrait of Sophie Gabain