|| Mourner, Clodion,1766.
An allegory of the death of Louis Joseph Xavier de France, the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, on June 4th, 1789.
(C) RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / image RMN
History is a relation of the most natural and important events; history, therefore, gratifies curiosity, but it does not often excite terror or pity; the mind feels not that tenderness for a falling state, which it feels for an injured beauty; nor is it so much alarmed at the migration of barbarians who mark their way with desolation and fill the world with violence and rapine, as at the fury of a husband, who, deceived into jealousy by false appearances, stabs a faithful and affectionate wife, kneeling at his feet, and pleading to be heard.
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| — | John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, no. 4 (1752) |
Flycatcher.
From Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame vogelen… (Collection of foreign and rare birds…) vol. 1, by Mark Catesby & George Edwards, Amsterdam, 1772.
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Farewell of the generals by Frederick the Great’s death bed on August 17th, 1786 - Georg Schöbel (1860-1931)
