18th Century Art icons and wallpapers

[olde_fashioned]

Almost three dozen icons of one of my favourite subjects: 18th Century art and fashions! 8-D Most of these are by Thomas Gainsborough, but there are a few John Singleton Copley icons, as well two wallpapers.

I've preserved the titles of the paintings at the bottom and have numbered them to correspond with their sucessive icons. ;-) Mostly minimal this time around, because I felt it suited the portraits better. They're so lovely, they don't need any textures.

And yes I made one of Blue Boy. ;-P

As always, never alter my graphics, comment, credit, and enjoy!

Teasers:




Please, if you take anything, be so kind as to take note of the numbers of the icon(s) you're saving, since I am always experimenting with my styles and I would like to know what people like best. (This helps me so I can make more!) The numbers are above the icons. ;-)

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

John Singleton Copley
1. woman in yellow (?)
2 & 3. Mrs. Richard Skinner
4. Mrs. George Watson
5. Mrs. James Warren (Mercy Otis)
6. Mrs. Daniel Hubbard (Mary Greene)

Thomas Gainsborough
7. The Blue Boy (Jonathon Buttall)
8. Lady Grace Dalrymple Elliot
9. The Marsham Children
10. Conversation in a Park
11. Ann Ford
12. Sarah Siddons
13. Mary Countess of Howe
14. Portrait of the Artist and His Wife and Daughter
15 & 16. Duke and Duchess of Cumberland
17. Lord Ligonier
18. Lady Ligonier
19. Lady Alston
20. Elizabeth Wrottesley
21 & 22. The Honourable Frances Duncombe
23. Portrait of a Lady in blue
24. Johann Christian Bach
25. Mrs. Graham
26. Queen Charlotte
27 & 28. The Linley Sisters
29. The Artist's Daughters with a cat
30. Mrs. Sheridan
31. Mr. and Mrs. Hallet
32. Mrs. Thomas Graham
33. The Mall
34. Rustic Lovers




Queen Charlotte, by Gainsborough
[Queen of England; King George III's consort]

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Lady Grace Dalrymple Elliot, by Gainsborough

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A bit of a promotion. ;-) The Dreamer is a charming web comic set during the American Revolution, but with a modern twist. A teenaged girl finds herself transported back into the midst of war and surrounded by some very intriguing characters from our historical past.


The Dreamer Homepage -::- -::- -::- The Dreamer Comic Archive

A friend introduced me to this, and as she so delicately put it, it does have have a little *ahem* "skin" due to the period costumes on the ladies, as well as a teensy bit of language, but so far there has been nothing overly objectionable. I've enjoyed it so far, and hope it continues in the same vein that it has begun. :-)

Comments

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know much about it--I just found it in a paper someone had put together. All I remember really is that somehow him and his wife managed to have a lot of kids. ^-^

No. *facepalm* I hate when I have memory problems.

lol. :D

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Haha. Well, I think finding out stuff like that is really neat. :-)

*le gasp* Do you mean you don't remember?!?!

;-)

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I do! ... I just have no idea what we're talking about.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Red runaway coats. *hinthint*

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Your Irish story? The Dreamer?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Ach, NO!!! Dr. Harrison's red "runaway" coat from Cranford!!!! How could you forget????

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Wait, I love his red coat. But why is it runaway?? *is totally clueless*

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

He SAID it was a runaway coat in the movie. The other doctor asked him if it was a cutaway coat, and Dr. H replied that it was a runaway coat, and that he'd had it made in London.

NOW do you remember?? ;-D

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Yes, now I do. But you can't expect me to remember those details! I'm lucky if I remember several principle lines, and I never remember barely anything about fashion. :P

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Haha, okay, okay, maybe I'm not being fair. But seriously, I cling to all the precious little fashion bits in costume dramas and literature that I CAN'T forget, lol. And I was sqeeing over the various M-notched lapels, too. ;-P

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Haha. I wish I could remember everything. :)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Me too!! My memory is horrible sometimes. *shakes head at self*