#1789

[skf-fineart]

Guillotine earrings commemorating the execution of Louis XVI during France’s Reign of Terror, c. 1793

[nemfrog]

"The Pulmonic Medusa." The naturalist's miscellany. 1789. Rhizostoma pulmo.

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[purecommemasolitude]

People who post non-English musicals with English subtitles online are God’s most important soldiers and I genuinely owe them my entire life

[zegalba]

Antonio Canova: Psyche Revived by the Kiss of Love (1789)

[cowperviolet]

I am currently absolutely fascinated by this primary source find - one of the ‘grievance lists’ (cahiers de doléances) written in 1789. This one was created by a widow from Normandy. And… if half of these lines had been given to a period drama character, the screenwriters would have been raked over the coals for being hamfisted and anachronistic.

[treasuresfromthearchives]

Comtesse de la Châtre (Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, 1762–1848)

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun French

1789

"Emulating the taste of the court both in fashion and choice of artist was a key factor in the production of portraits. Queen Marie Antoinette, who regularly sat for Vigée Le Brun, popularized the kind of simple, white muslin dress so beautifully painted in this portrait of the comtesse de la Châtre, daughter of a high-ranking member of Louis XV’s immediate court. Vigée Le Brun combined it with an innovative pose that was probably inspired by the casual, calculated elegance of British portraits, notably those of Emma Hamilton by George Romney. Like many of Vigée Le Brun’s sitters and the artist herself, the comtesse de la Châtre was a royalist close to the crown who fled France during the French Revolution."

[blondebrainpowered]

Optician's sign, Sweden, late 1800's or early 1900's

The business the sign belonged to was Nordlöws Ur & Optik (Nordlöw's Clocks and Optics). Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date for this shop sign, other than that it's from somewhere around the turn of the century 1800-1900. The building itself was originally built in 1789 in the city of Härnösand and used throughout the 1800's and early 1900's. The building is today located in the open-air museum Murberget in Härnösand, Sweden.

Photographer and description: iwanttohibernate

[xaoca]

Witches Sabbath, Francisco Goya 1798