When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

It is, however, actually a sampler from Barbados – the earliest known Barbadian sampler in any collection. The RSN sampler is ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

(IN BRIEF) Professor Daisy Hay, a biographer and expert in 18th and 19th-century British literature, has been elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). Hay, a Fellow of the RSL ...

The fair’s commitment to textile arts reveals the medium’s evolving role in contemporary expression. Known for her ...

But in the history of art, British landscape painting is a fairly recent movement. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century ...

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To aid in navigation:” the political economy of cotton in the Portuguese Empire. In 1790, British envoy Robert Walpole asked ...