So rich and detailed my friend, beautifully taken AnnaLois ☺️👌🏼
Shady Figure and a Wistful Gaze
for #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Background
and #LightFlare by #SensoryArt
#EastCoastKin #photography #ECK #artwork #oilpainting #C17th #C18th #KiplinHall #Yorkshire #history
Photograph taken of a huge oil painting on the wall in the amazing library at Kiplin Hall, Yorkshire. It's likely to be by the C17/C18 artist Nicolas de Largillière. The Painting: The painting shows a beautiful woman dressed in a luxurious silver robe, with glimpses of a rich green dress with gold detail and a low neckline underneath. She has decadent red pointed slippers on and five blooms in her silver-blonde hair which is pinned up on top of her head exquisitely. She is leaning on a red velvet cushion atop a wooden balcony with railings looking down wistfully at whatever is happening below. At her feet, partially hidden by her robe, is a small brown and white dog with curly fur. Behind her in the darkness is a gentleman in the shadows with a pointed nose watching the lady intensely. He is a little unnerving. Could he be her patron perhaps? Her leaning on the balcony suggests despite her wealthy appearance, she is trapped between the railings preventing her fall and the figure behind. #Background The photograph shows two types of 'background'. The first, the interior decor of beautiful built-in, wraparound bookshelves and panelling with a deep green colour and sizeable cornice. The second, the shadowy figure behind the lady in the painting and the dog at her feet behind the balcony rails. #LightFlare Another of my best efforts to capture an historical painting but being tiny, even withy phone camera held above my head and on tiptoes, there's always a shaft of light that hits! Kiplin Hall: Kiplin Hall has a tremendous variety of artworks, including one of my heroes of the art world, Angelica Kauffman. She was one of two female artists who were founding members of The Royal Academy of Art in London, in 1768. Her contemporary was Mary Moser. I'll stop now before I get on my soapbox about why she deserves a bigger place in history!
Shady Figure and a Wistful Gaze
for #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Background
and #LightFlare by #SensoryArt
#EastCoastKin #photography #ECK #artwork #oilpainting #C17th #C18th #KiplinHall #Yorkshire #history
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Great new blog post from HHRN committee member, Dr Suzi Richer!
Learn more about Elizabeth Birkett of Townend, Cumbria and the herbal remedies in her commonplace book (1699)
#herbalhistory #histherb #herbalmedicine #C17th #bookhistory #recipes #cumbria #Townend
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Author Michael Durrant provides an enlightening account of his journey to reconstruct the life and work of Henry Hills in a new article on the MUP blog, manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/03...
#EarlyModernLiterature #Culture #C17th @srsrensoc.bsky.social
#C17th #C17th #materialculture #earlymodern
Call for Papers | Art Manufactories in the 17th and 18th Centuries enfilade18thc.com/2026/02/05/c...
Proposals due by 26 March 2026
Exhibition | Savonnerie Carpets of Louis XIV enfilade18thc.com/2026/01/18/e...
#C17th #materialculture #earlymodern
I'm presenting a paper on royal investigative commissions operating across the Atlantic World and Asia in the #c17th and #c18th at #AHA26 on Sunday. Part of the session "What Makes an Empire? Integrating Denmark’s Overseas Expansion into Global History." If you're attending, do join us!
Wow, The Seventeenth Century is the most efficient journal ever. I submitted a book review on Thursday and received the proofs for checking this morning. #C17th #skystorians #journals www.tandfonline.com/journals/rse...
Look at this gorgeous sexy thing. Look at these gorgeous sexy books! Summertime is reading-time - dive in and indulge! #fiskardoswar #C17th #thewantonroad
Look what Historic Royal Palaces posted today JUST FOR ME!!! (and you!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSk...
#17thC #C17th #historicalFashion #historicalClothing #1660s
Screenshot of a 1658 recipe for making 'Paste of Pippins', or boiled apple candy in the shape of plums. Follow the link for a text version on the orchardnotes.com website.
Anyone for 'Paste of Pippins'? Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (allegedly) tells us how to make boiled apple candies in the shape of plums, complete leaves, stems and stones, in this #C17th #recipe:
orchardnotes.com/2025/03/15/s...
THOMAS BLOOD CONTENT!!!!
By one of my favorite YouTube channels.
No fiction I could make up about the Restoration period would be as zany as this true story.
#17thC #C17th #Stuart
youtu.be/G0Qkzz51-Ng?...
Hey look at this video by @katrina-marchant.bsky.social talking about the arrival of tea in Britain which I rambled about just a few days ago!
#17thC #c17th #EarlyModern #tea #history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_80...
A screenshot of a ebook website. The search is for Charles the First and the ebook website has suggested the topic first aid and safety may be relevant
I think it might be a bit late for first aid in King Charles I's case, but nice thought perlego #Skystorians #C17th #CofEPeeps 🗃
As we near Burns night, time to share our blog on #Scottish healing and herbs by Dr Charlotte Holmes @_CCHolmes_
#C17th #C18th #herbalhistory
www.herbalhistory.org/home/domesti...
Screenshot of the recipe for John Murrell's 1630 recipe for 'A Quince or Warden Pie'.
Anyone for a nice, spicy quince or warden pie?
In John Murrell's version from 1630 the fruit is poached in wine with sugar & musk grains before being baked in a pastry case with cinnamon & cloves.
Just the thing for a chilly evening.
orchardnotes.com/2025/01/15/j...
#orchard #recipe #C17th
Women in seventeenth century costume standing in a herb garden
Tonight's talk may involve Mistress Agnes fighting through ice and snow in order to impart her herbal lore #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #C17th
Cold. However, this 17th century church has seen a lot of weather in its time.
#wicklow #ireland #photography #church #c17th #history
1658 Recipe for 'Apple Cream'
Anyone for 'Apple Cream'? This #C17th #recipe, accredited to Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne, is actually for wine-poached #apples in a sweetened herb-infused cream.
Sounds delicious to me. What do you reckon?
orchardnotes.com/2025/01/04/s...
#fruitrecipe
Sweeping the floor in seventeenth century costume
Looking forward to chatting all things C17th housewifery tonight - I will be virtually in Yorkshire #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory #Geneaogy #C17th
Intricate hilt of 17th century rapier, featuring multiple faces on the pommel, knuckle bow, and swept hilt. Image credit: A. Lynn Evenson
When you want to stab someone, but with style.
Hilt of mid-17th century rapier, likely of Dutch origin. Located at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
📜 🗃️
#rapier #sword #fencing #c17th #17thcentury #skystorians
Frontispiece of the pamphlet The Witches of Northampton-shire from 1612 featuring a black-and-white woodcut of three alleged witches riding on a giant pig. The women are dressed in contemporary attire and the woman in front holds a staff in one hand and a lantern to light the way in the other.
Please move on, there is nothing to see here - just three witches riding a giant pig...
#C17th #earlymodern
That does sound lovely.
But my favorite touristy thing in Bath is going down to the basement of this little #c17th shop and buying a Sally Lunn in a fancy box.
A herb garden
Tonight Mistress Agnes is saddling up the horse to talk about the uses of her #C17th herb garden. #SocialHistory #Gardening
Anyone for "Pippen Composte"?
NOT a dish of garden-composted apples (don't use those, that would be very bad), but Giles Rose's #C17th #recipe for boiled #apples in apple jelly.
Sounds pretty good to me 😋
orchardnotes.com/2024/09/28/g...
#orchard
I've been looking for a something useful to do with a few dozen drastically under-ripe #figs. William Rabisha's #C17th #pickling recipe sounds do-able, but I'm not entirely convinced it'll deal with the latex sap issue.
Any thoughts? 🤔
orchardnotes.com/2024/09/13/w...
Gervase Markham's 1623 recipe for "a pruen tart" (actually a batch of tartlets), using "the fairest damaske pruens you can get" - a.k.a. #damsons - sounds absolutely delicious to me.
orchardnotes.com/2024/08/29/g...
#c17th #orchard #recipe
The Indian Ocean World Centre Speaker Series kicks off for Fall 2024 with @hannah-historian.bsky.social, PhD candidate in History here at #mcgill, who will speak on "Volcanic Cluster, Archival Absence: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Batavia" at 3pm on Aug 28. #envhist #c17th
#c17th 😁
