Tag: eighteenth century
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Mary Moser’s tulips
As I was looking for images of “broken” tulips in historic collections the other day, I happened across a series of watercolour studies in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which were the work of Mary Moser. Moser was an interesting eighteenth-century artist, who, because she specialised in botanical subjects, has often been dismissed in the…
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sock of the week no. 6: clocks and socks
an image connecting the histories of eighteenth-century intimate apparel, government taxation, and the democratisation of timekeeping
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