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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

antolldubh: Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782.

antolldubh:

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782.

cultured-f**k: Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Sir Banastre Tarleton (Colonel Tarleton), (1782)

cultured-f**k:

Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Sir Banastre Tarleton (Colonel Tarleton), (1782)

books0977: Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782). Marie Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Rococo, 1755-1842). “Le Brun, the model and the painter of beauty, A modern Rosalba, but more brilliant than she, Unites the voice of Favart with the smile of Venus.” (La Harpe). He turned towards the object of his praise, and the audience, including the Duchesse de Chartres and the King of Sweden, rose to their feet, and, turning in her direction, applauded her with enthusiasm, so that she was ” almost overcome with confusion.”

books0977:

Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat (1782). Marie Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, Rococo, 1755-1842).

“Le Brun, the model and the painter of beauty, A modern Rosalba, but more brilliant than she, Unites the voice of Favart with the smile of Venus.” (La Harpe).

He turned towards the object of his praise, and the audience, including the Duchesse de Chartres and the King of Sweden, rose to their feet, and, turning in her direction, applauded her with enthusiasm, so that she was ” almost overcome with confusion.”

robertwash:

Happy Birthday Sir Joshua Reynolds!
July 16, 1723 (Plympton, England)

“The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.”

Top: Selina, Lady Skipwith, 1787. The Frick Collection (New York)
Bottom: Colonel George K. H. Coussmaker, 1782. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)