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A fan printed with the names and boxes of subscribers for the 1787 and 1788 seasons at the King's Theatre.
"Renting a box at the opera for a season was a mark of social standing. These fans would have been a practical accessory in a hot theatre and useful for knowing who else might be there."
Victoria & Albert Museum
#fan#fashion#fashion accessory#accessory#accessories#fashion history#history#opera#theatre#1787#1788#1780s#1700s#18th century
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Remember to tak a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne.
#Tait rhymes with hat#Good times#Bliadhna Mhath Ùr 🎊#Happy New Year 🎉#Haud Hogmanay 🥳#Welcome 2024#Auld Lang Syne#Robert Burns#1788
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This story is from about 1788.
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It is a Hard thing for me to Be separated from the friends I love the Best, and to think that our daily Conversations are Reduced to a few letters, the Arrival of Which is ever lengthy and sometimes Uncertain. I Hope, However, My dear friend, you don’t question My Continual and Affectionate Remembrance of the Happy days I Have Past With You. I Hope You often think of me, and of the pleasure I’d Have to Embrace You Again.
The Marquis de La Fayette to Alexander Hamilton, May 24, 1788
“To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Lafayette, 24 May 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0239. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 4, January 1787 – May 1788, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 652–654.] (01/13/2024)
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A book from 1788 that is in the process of being repaired (by me!) I removed some of the damaged covering material (tape is evil!!) and now you can see how the boards were attached to the textblock. The ends of the sewing supports (cords) were laced into holes in the board and glued down. Neat!
#conservation#original content#preservation#library#bookbinding#book conservation#libraries#books#video#book arts#antique books#book#library preservation#old books#1788#18th century
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From the Trial Account of John Rawlins and Benjamin Egars for Conspiracy, 22nd October 1788. (Old Bailey Reference Number: t17881022-85) *
*Although the sentence shared by Brothers Dunnikin, Doorkeeper, Watchtower, and Plasterer comes from the sentence passed on Joyce Hodgkis in 1714 for the murder of her husband.
#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#meme#discworld meme#created by yours truly#the watch#guards! guards!#lupine wonse#the elucidated brethren of the ebon night#ankh morpork#history#18th century#old bailey#18th century writing#long s#1780s#1788#1710s#1714
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14.12.1779 | Der junge Schiller (rechts) begegnet Goethe (ganz links; in der Mitte links stehend Herzog Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) zum ersten Mal, als dieser mit Carl August die Herzogliche Militärakademie in Stuttgart besucht, deren Schüler Schiller ist
Holzstich nach Zeichnung von Woldemar Friedrich, 1890
1788 | Schiller und Goethe begegnen sich zum zweiten Mal im Lengefeld’schen Garten in Rudolstadt, Schiller kann leider (noch) keinen guten Eindruck hinterlassen; im Haus Schillers zukünftige Frau Charlotte und ihre Schwester Caroline von Lengefeld
Holzstich nach Zeichnung von Otto Günther, 1865
ca. 1797-1801 | 1794 hatte es endlich gefunkt: Goethe und Schiller halten Händchen am steinernen Tisch in Schillers Gartenhaus in Jena
Hermann Junker, spätes 19. Jahrhundert
ca. 1794-1805 | Goethe und Schiller in Goethes Arbeitszimmer am Frauenplan in Weimar
Holzstich nach Gemälde von Rudolf Eichstaedt, um 1890
ca. 1802-1805 | Goethe besucht Schiller in seinem Arbeitszimmer im Haus an der Esplanade und wird freudig begrüßt, mit dabei: Charlotte
Woldemar Friedrich, spätes 19. Jahrhundert
ca. 1802-1805 | (später am selben Tag?) Produktives Beisammensein in Schillers Arbeitszimmer
Holzstich nach Zeichnung von Woldemar Friedrich, 1890
1826 | Goethe bei Betrachtung von Schillers (vermeintlichem) Schädel; er hatte sich denselben aus der Bibliothek "geborgt" und etwa ein Jahr lang, auf ein Samtkissen gebettet, in seinem Arbeitszimmer aufbewahrt
A. Toller: "Goethe Schillers Schädel suchend", 1859
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Goethe und Schiller chronologisch in Fanart aus dem 19. Jahrhundert
#friedrich schiller#johann wolfgang von goethe#schoethe#guess what#ein neuer post?!?#on this blog??#das mit alex und bill hab ich jetzt mal rausgelassen#da standen fritz und wolfi nicht so im fokus irgendwie#die große frage scheint zu sein wo die ganzen originale von woldemar sind auf denen die schnitte basieren#insgesamt ist mir das 19. Jahrhundert ziemlich suspekt#aber sie hatten ein ding für goethe und schiller und das respektiere ich#und sie haben so viel fanart produziert dass ich dachte das muss man mal zusammenstellen#Gruß geht raus an woldemar#thank u for ur service#bilder#fanart#1779#1788#1926
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H.M.S. Prince First Rate 110 Guns (with the Stern Balconies, as built before the close sterns were introduced) in Portsmouth Harbour Jury rigged, 1788, by Edward William Cooke 1828
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Lady Altamont, George Romney, 1788
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“ . . . there is not as yet any national Government; but that as soon as there shall be one, the British Court will vouchsafe to treat with it.”
John Adams reports good news on the British Government’s view of the not-yet-ratified Constitution of the U.S., February 15, 1788.
Record Group 360: Records of the Continental and Confederation Congresses and the Constitutional Convention
Series: Papers of the Continental Congress
File Unit: Letters from John Adams
Transcription:
595
Grosvenor Square Feb 15 1788
Dear Sir,
I yesterday received Mr. Romsens Letter of the 15 of December, with the Journals and Gazettes inclosed(sic).
At the last Conferences at Whitehall which were last Thursday, Lord Carmarthen thought proper to express a wish that this Country had some sort of Treaty of Commerce with the United States of America, that it might be no longer necessary to take new measures from time to time, which looked hard. This observation his Lordship made alluding to Mr Grenvilles Motion in the House of Commons for making the Regulation of the Intercourse between America and the West Indian Islands perpetual. His Lordship then, immediately said "I presume Mr Adams that the states will all immediately adopt the new Constitution. I have read it with pleasure. it is very well drawn up." All this oracular utterance, was to signify to me what has all along been intimated, that there is not as yet any national Government; but that as soon as there shall be one, the British Court will
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vouchsafe to treat with it._ You will See, by the Morning Chronicle of the 12 of Feb inclosed(sic) that Mr Grenville's Speech is in the same strain: So that we may conclude it to be the concerted Language of the Cabinet. it is unnecessary for me to make any reflections upon it. The argument that arises out of it, in favor of the new Constitution and a prompt acceptance of it is but one among many._ France and Holland furnish as many Reasons as England. Mr Jefferson must soon follow my example and return to America, if that Constitution is not accepted by all the states: and what will be the Consequence of the Clamours(sic) of all the officers in France, who are creditors; of all the Notable who may be pleased to cast reflections, ; and of all our Creditors in Holland; for want of payment of interest and principal as they become due, must be left to every American Citizent Seriously to consider.
In preparing for my departure I have been personally treated with the same uniform Tenour(sic) of dry Decency and cold Civility which appears to have been their premeditated plan from the
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beginning: and Opposition as well as Administration appear to have adopted the same spirit. Mr Fox and Mr Burke, Lord Gambelin and the Duke of Richmond, Lord Hawksbury and Lord North and Lord Hortmont, have all behaved alike. If this country can make such arrangements that the King of Prussia may make a Diversion of the French Forces by Land, and the native Indians or discontented subjects, another of those of Spain in South America, you may easily believe that England will be eager for War. Let not our Countrymen flatter themselves that they shall be able to maintain Peace. Lord Carmarthen indeed said to me that he did not see a possibility of a misunderstanding in Europe, and that he even hoped that peace would be made between Russia and the Porte. His Lordship is in profound ignorance of it, I presume, if there is really any Probability of an alliance of France with the Emperor or Empress. Mr Jefferson has informed you of his conjectures, as well as his intelligence on that Point.
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The Marquis de la Luzerne is now Ambassador at this Court from France, and has already met with with humiliations not easily borne by Ambassadors. Monsieur De Calonne appears at the levee and drawing room, and even at the Table of the Marquis of Carmarthen, on the Queens Birth Day with the French Ambassador. The Chevalier De Ternant was presented by the French Ambassador to the King and Queen, and treated with the most marked Disgust by both. These things are hard to bear. I have had some conversations with th[word runs off page] Minister, with whom I made a voyage in 1779 from L'Orient to Boston in the Sensible, and could wish to have resided longer with him, for he will certainly be attentive and able; But my embarkation is fixed to the month of March, and I hope to be in Boston in May. With great esteem and regard I have the Honour to be, dear Sir your most obedient and most humble Servant
John Adams
His Excellence John Jay
Secretary of State Etc Etc
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#1937#1788#algernon talmage#26 January#sydney cove#26 January 1788#oil sketch#arthur phillip#captain arthur phillip#jack#union jack#union flag#australia#australia day
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Red Striped Taffeta Dress, 1780-1789, French.
Musée des Arts Décoratifs Paris.
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But When I took the penn to write to You, I Was so Painfully struck With the difference Between this, and our former Hourly Correspondence, that it Has damped My Spirits, and Better fitted me for tender Effusions than political Accounts. I Must However Speack to You of the Revolution Now Going on in this Country.
The Marquis de La Fayette to Alexander Hamilton, May 24, 1788
“To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Lafayette, 24 May 1788,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-04-02-0239. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 4, January 1787 – May 1788, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 652–654.] (10/30/2023)
#quotes#letter#marquis de lafayette#la fayette#american history#french history#french revolution#alexander hamilton#1788#founders online#history
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Prince Poniatowski in the battle of Šabac (1788)
On the occasion of 235th anniversary of Austrians taking the Turkish fortress Šabac (now a place in Serbia) let me tell you more about Józef Poniatowski’s participation in it.
Austrian soldiers carry the wounded Prince Józef from the battlefield of Šabac (engraving)
That time Józef Poniatowski was a colonel in the Austrian Army, that Austro-Turkish war was his first military campaign. As the historian Szymon Askenazy wrote prince Józef volunteered already for the first assault; participated in taking the outskirts of the stronghold, which was being defended by a janissary named Mehmed-aga Fočić.
The conquered fortress of Šabac on April 24, 1788, Austrian engraving
Then, in the morning of the 24th of April colonel Poniatowski personally leading with extraordinary bravado a column storming the castle itself and having barely made it through the ditch with a few men to the very parapet of the fortress was hit there by enemy fire.
An illustration by Zbigniew Łoskot
The bullet struck prince Józef in the thigh, and from the battlefield he was saved by a Croatian private named Karol Kerner whom the prince later generously rewarded and who then stayed a in Poniatowski’s service for many times.
Poniatowski himself was then transferred to the lazaret in Semlin, and the diligent medical care saved him from imminent disability.
The taking of Šabac on April 24th, 1788, Austrian engraving
And yes, it was during the earlier stages of that battle when prince Józef saved a man himself, and this man was Karl, prince von Schwarzenberg, Poniatowski’s pal of that time (and future adversary during the battle of Leipzig).
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