Posts Tagged "Speckled Monster"

Rand Paul & The Speckled Monster

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Rand Paul & The Speckled Monster

Senator Rand Paul gives a shout-out to The Speckled Monster during the Republican Presidential Debate, September 16, 2015

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Jonathan Richardson

The image bloomed upon his canvas: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in her Turkish robes, by Jonathan Richardson, c. 1726 (Private Collection)…

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The Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

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The Turkish Bath by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“Skin shiningly white”: Ingres paints Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s word picture in “The Turkish Bath,” 1862 (The Louvre)…

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Zabdiel Boylston, in my dreams

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Zabdiel Boylston, in my dreams

No portrait of Zabdiel Boylston survives, but this is how I like to imagine him…

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Lady Mary in Pictures

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Lady Mary in Pictures

Before her bout with smallpox Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was a famously beautiful woman. She was painted many times, before and after…

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