Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

By Milena Lazazzera More than 100 porcelain perfume bottles from the 18th century are being offered ... The other side depicts a female figure reclining in a field.Credit...Sotheby’s Mr.

The program was presented by Regent Cathy Hinkle who presented a program on Eighteenth Century women’s clothing. During the program, vegetable and herb seeds were collected that will be sent to ...

About 90% of English women in the 18th Century worked outside the home, like this shellfish seller painted by William Hogarth in the 1740s The belief that sex before marriage was unusual in the ...

The sketch of the superb La Deesse de Shanghai brooch by Castellane, inspired by an 18th century coral ornament, is also ...

Sotheby's will auction an exquisite 18th-century diamond necklace in Geneva on November 11, with online bidding starting October 25. The necklace, featuring around 500 diamonds and linked to Marie ...

Diaries written by women in 18th century Ireland are still to be found in libraries and archives throughout Ireland, the UK, and Europe. They were usually deposited as part of a family's papers ...

The invention of the balloon struck the men and women of the late 18th century like a thunderbolt. Enormous crowds gathered in Paris to ... in the early history of ballooning were produced and sold ...

Last fall, for her show at Gagosian Beverly Hills, she copied 18th-century likenesses of notable women, down to the pearl. Except she obscured each face with crazy bunches of painted fabric ...

For example, the import duty on tea raised its price by around 70 per cent by the middle of the 18th century. Smuggling was usually organised by gangs, who were funded by investors or venturers.

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On offer in the sale are 18th and 19th century embroidery and tapestry ... collection are an array of stitched pieces from ...