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Ring, c. 1760-1800
From the Victoria & Albert Museum
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Ring, c. 1760-1800
From the Victoria & Albert Museum
Robe à la française with matching stomacher and petticoat ca. 1755 - 1760
Philadelphia Museum of Art
~ The House-Keeper’s Pocket-Book, And Compleat Family Cook: Containing Above Twelve Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Preserving, Candying, Pastry, Pickling, Collaring, &c., by Mrs. Sarah Harrison, 1760
For an Ague (a fever with chills and sweating), by Dr. Mead
Take a Spider alive, cover it with new soft crumby Bread without bruising it; let the Patient swallow it fasting. This is an effectual Cure, but many people are set against it. It has been frequently given to People, who did not know the Contents, and has the desired Effect.
Moral: only take bread from people you trust in case it has a live spider in it
Gold box with agate cameo lid, decorated with diamonds, c. 1760.
Woman's dress with attached Stomacher
c.1760-1770
Maker unknown, French
• Dress.
Date: 1730-1760
Bill from Le Bigdil
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Luke Sullivan (Irish, 1705-1771) A View of Wilton in Wiltshire the Seta of the Rt Hon Earl of Pembrooke, 1760
