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Sunday, 5 January 2014

Benjamin West. The Death of General Wolfe. 1771

Filed under: 18th Century,English,Fine Art,Historical,Human Study,Military,Patriotic — 01varvara @ 00.00
Tags: Battle of Quebec, Benjamin West, Britain, Canada, England, Great Britain, History, James Wolfe, Painting, Plains of Abraham, Québec, Seven Years' War, war

The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West

1771

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Monday, 30 December 2013

Michael Taylor. Sir John Tavener. 2001

Filed under: Contemporary,English,Fine Art,Human Study,Portrait — 01varvara @ 00.00
Tags: Britain, England, Great Britain, man, Michael Taylor (contemporary English artist), musicians, portraiture, Realism, Sir John Tavener, UK, United Kingdom

Sir John Tavener

Michael Taylor

2001

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James Gillray. A Kick at the Broad-Bottoms! i.e. Emancipation of “All the Talents”. Vide, the Fate of the Catholic Bill. 1807

Filed under: 19th Century,Cartoon,English,Political Commentary — 01varvara @ 00.00
Tags: caricature, cartoon, editorial cartoon, England, Illustration, James Gillray, King George III, Kings of England, political, politics, satire

A Kick at the Broad-Bottoms! i.e. Emancipation of “All the Talents”. Vide, the Fate of the Catholic Bill

James Gillray

1807

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Saturday, 5 October 2013

George Frederic Watts. The Infancy of Zeus. 1896

Filed under: 19th Century,Ancient Greek,Ancient World,English,Fantasy/Mythology,Fine Art,Greco-Roman,Greek Themes — 01varvara @ 00.00
Tags: Ancient, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, England, English, George Frederic Watts, Greek mythology, Jupiter, Painting, Symbolist, Zeus

The Infancy of Zeus

George Frederic Watts

1896

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