Another interesting event, this time on the other side of the pond. The Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University currently is currently showing an exhibition called
Lady Hamilton Dancing. Blurb as follows:
In 1794 the dancing and Attitudes, or expressive postures, performed by Emma Hamilton (1761?-1815) were rendered in twelve neoclassical images
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I keep meaning to ask: when I finally get round to scanning in all the Young Persons' resources I cadged from the Royal Dockyards, would you like copies?
There's a very difficult Nelson wordsearch in there.
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I can't say I particularly like Gillray but there's no denying his work is iconic.
when I finally get round to scanning in all the Young Persons' resources I cadged from the Royal Dockyards, would you like copies?
Ooh yes that would be great! Thank you very much :) I'm PM you my e-mail address.
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And he seems to be preoccupied with scatology.
Interesting to see the details of clothing and furniture though.
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You know, that's exactly what I think every time I see Gillray's work, Cruikshank's too. Unsurprisingly he came to a particularly unhappy end (alcoholism, attempted suicide and insanity). Very occasionally a spark of humanity seems to show through. There's something almost poignant about The Whore's Last Shift.
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