The Intimate Type

I missed the opportunity to post about a remarkable, ground-breaking exhibition that was recently held at the British Museum. As readers who check in on Georgian Image Bookmarking already know, I’m fascinated with Georgian and Regency era painting and drawing, especially portraiture, and this exhibit focused on a particularly interesting type of portrait, the personal likenesses [...]

Life Aboard

Nelson’s Flagships 1807 Nicholas Pocock

“What I hope to bring together here is a comprehensive source for the era: weapons and armaments, personages, single ship and minor fleet actions, and way of life aboard a man o’war during the Age of Sail.”
I’m so thrilled that the author of Age of Sail and his fascinating website [...]

Machine Breaking and the Plight of the Luddites

During the period 1812-22, it could be said that England suffered more economically, socially and politically, than during the height of the Napoleonic Wars. The population of England and Wales had risen to 10.2 million by 1811, the rapid development of factories had seen villages become insanitary and dependent factory towns, and the system of [...]

Impropriety by the Seaside III

Weymouth

“Very lucky–marrying as they did, upon an acquaintance formed only in a public place!–They only knew each other, I think, a few weeks in Bath! Peculiarly lucky!– for as to any real knowledge of a person’s disposition that Bath, or any public place, can give–it is all nothing; there can be no knowledge.”
What [...]

Impropriety at Weymouth

Weymouth Bay: Bowleaze Cove and Jordan Hill
1816-17
John Constable
National Gallery, London
Ah, Weymouth. Doesn’t it just make you think of Frank Churchill & Jane Fairfax? And Impropriety by the Seaside?

Inside the Painter’s Studio

A Painter’s Studio
c. 1800
Louis-Léopold Boilly
National Gallery of Art Washington DC

Even though I could blog (verb? Totally) possibly endlessly about strictly Austen topics, once a week, possibly more often but at least this one is in a specific format, I’m going to go down the culturally significant road and post an [...]