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OTD (273 years ago): Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753), the first authorized collected edition of Gray's poetry, published by Robert Dodsley. Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive: www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib... #c18th #poetry #DH #ThomasGray #OnThisDay #OTD

Alexander Huber 1d ago

OTD (273 years ago): Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray (1753), the first authorized collected edition of Gray's poetry, published by Robert Dodsley.

Find out more in the #ThomasGrayArchive:
https://www.thomasgray.org/texts/diglib/primary/1753b

#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #ThomasGray #Designs #OnThisDay #OTD

Alexander Huber 3d ago

Halfway there! 🎉 The #HarrissListDigitalArchive project has reached its midpoint: 9 of the 18 surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies are now available for data exploration (tabular analysis, mapping, and network visualisation): harrisslist.prisms.digital #c18th #HarrissList

Alexander Huber 3d ago

The #HarrissListDigitalArchive project has reached the halfway point 🎉

9 of the 18 surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies are now available for data exploration, enabling research through tabular analysis, mapping, and network visualisation.

Excited to see how scholars and the public engage with this remarkable eighteenth-century source as the archive continues to grow. More editions, data, and discoveries coming soon.

https://harrisslist.prisms.digital/

#c18th #18thC #18thCentury

Tania Lévy Mar 23

Ai-je perdu les L3 en leur disant : "Hubert Robert représente le passé du futur qui est en fait le présent à travers cette toile" (ou une formulation équivalente) ? Vous n'avez aucune preuve

https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010065359

#HistoireDelArt #Histoire #Enseignement #ESR #Université #Peinture #HubertRobert #Louvre #ruines #XVIIIeSiecle #c18th #Musée

Alexander Huber Mar 22

OTD: William Pulteney, Earl of Bath (1684-1764), John Ellis (1698-1791), and Edward Moore (1712-1757) born this day.

Featured in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive:
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/

#c18th #poetry #DH #18thCentury #OnThisDay #OTD

Assoc for Scottish Literature Mar 20

A’ bheinn luiseanach fhailleanach
Mheallanach lìontach,
Gun choimeas dh’ a fallaing
Air thalamh na Crìosdachd…

—“Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain”, by Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir (Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 1724–1812), one of the greatest #Gaelic poets of the #C18th – born #OTD, 20 March

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#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #18thcentury