An early offering because the Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal office will be closed next week for vacation, and I didn’t want anyone to miss out on the ECF Tumblr Tuesday posting. This scene in an eighteenth-century prison is from William Hayley, Ode, Inscribed to John Howard, Esq. F.R.S., Author of “The State of English and Foreign Prisons,” 3rd. ed. (London: J. Dodsley, 1782).
For comments on eighteenth-century prisons and prisonlike conditions, see the following ECF articles: “Fashioning the Legal Subject: Narratives from the London Treason Trials of 1794,” by Nancy E. Johnson; “’Extraordinary and dangerous powers’: Prisons, Police, and Literature in Godwin’s Caleb Williams,” by Quentin Bailey; and “’A perfect Retreat indeed’: Speculation, Surveillance, and Space in Defoe’s Roxana,” by Christina L. Healey.
George Smith
18th century
Philip V of Spain by Miguel Jacinto Melendez, 1718-1722
Marquise de Grécourt, née de la Fresnaye by Jean-Laurent Mosnier, ca. 1790
Søren Gyldendal by Erik Pauelsen, 1780
A gold chatelaine and quarter-repeating watch, both with painted enamels, purchased by the eminent physician Sir James Napier in 1779
Charlotte von Lengefeld, Spouse of Friedrich Schiller by Ludovike Simanowiz
L’Assemblée au Concert (A Gathering at a Concert) / François Dequevauviller (1745-1807) after Nicolas Lavreince (1737-1807)
Etching and engraving, ca. 1785. In an elegant, oval salon, with muraled ceiling and sculpted walls, richly furnished, a group of people from the haut monde meet to converse and play music. The print is among the most famous images in French eighteenth-century engraving, far better known than the original gouache by the Swedish-born Lavreince (Lafrensen) that inspired it.
”Benjamin Franklin’s reception at the court of France, 1778. Respectfully dedicated to the people of the United States.” Hand-coloured lithograph.
Print shows Benjamin Franklin receiving a laurel wreath upon his head. From left to right, some of the members of the French court include: Duchesse Jules de Polignac, Princesse Lamballe (holding flowers), Diane de Polignac (holding wreath), Comte de Vergennes, Mme Campan, Contesse de Neuilly, Marie-Antoinette (seated), Louis XVI, Princess Elizabeth.
The Franco-American alliance was promoted in the United States by Thomas Jefferson, a Francophile. Based on the Model Treaty of 1776, Jefferson encouraged the role of France as an economic and military partner to the United States, in order to weaken British influence.
Date 1860s
Robert Hubert
Villa Madama, 1767