1720 Collection (page 3)

Testudo graeca, spur-thighed tortoise
Photograph of what is probably a spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) specimen collected by Gilbert White (1720-93)

The Cabinet of the Grand Dauphin at the Versailles Palace
The Regent, Philippe II (1674-1723), Duke of Orleans, in the Study of the Grand Dauphin at Versailles with the young Louis XV (1710-74), c.1720. Oil on wood. French School (18th century). Date: 1720

BELLOTTO, Bernardo (1720-1780). View of an Old Bridge Over the River Po, Turin. Rococo art. Oil on canvas

Charlotte Lennox
CHARLOTTE LENNOX writer, friend of Dr Johnson Date: 1720 - 1804

Tobacconists Shopfront
A delightful 18th century shop front with bow-fronted windows, at Haymarket, London, where tobacco and snuff were sold for over 100 years. George III and Beau Brummel, etc

The Oldest Chemists Shop
Ye Oldest Chymist Shoppe in England, which, naturally, claims to be the oldest chemists shop in England! It is in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Date: founded circa 1720

Jonathan Mayhew
JONATHAN MAYHEW American churchman with his autograph Date: 1720 - 1766

Pierre De LA Broue
PIERRE DE LA BROUE French churchman, bishop of Mirepoix, theologian. Date: 1643 - 1720

Charles Stuart / 2 Ladies
CHARLES STUART THE YOUNG PRETENDER Bonnie Prince Charlie with Jenny Cameron and Flora Macdonald Date: 1720 - 1788

Charles Stuart / Disguised
CHARLES STUART THE YOUNG PRETENDER Bonnie Prince Charlie disguised as a woman in 1746 Date: 1720 - 1788

Baroque altar, Landsberg, Bavaria, Germany
View of the baroque altar in the Dominican Convent Church in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany. The church was built in 1720

GUILDHALL
The forecourt in the early 18th century

Elizabeth Montagu - 4
ELIZABETH MONTAGU writer and blue-stocking

Elizabeth Montagu - 2
ELIZABETH MONTAGU writer and blue-stocking

Prince Charlie Monument
BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE His monument at Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire, Scotland, where his Royal Stanard was raised and he read a Declaration in 1745

Anton Heinsius
ANTON HEINSIUS Dutch statesman

Birmingham Firemark
A Birmingham firemark of the Sun Fire Office. Firemarks were displayed by insurance companies, who maintained fire brigades to protect the properties they had insured

Charles Bonnet (Oval)
CHARLES BONNET Swiss botanist, zoologist and philosopher

Papal Jubilee / Milcha
He grants to the Milcha the commission of guards to the Santa Porta of St Peters Rome, while it is opened during the papal Jubilee

Papal Jubilee Announced
He proclaims the PAPAL JUBILEE in Saint Peter s, Rome Date: circa 1720

Papal Jubilee / Cardinals
At the start of the Papal Jubilee, he deputes three cardinals to open the gates of San Giovanni Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore and San Paolo, Rome

Papal Jubilee / Closing
He closes the Papal Jubilee by laying the first stone to wall up the Porta Santa of St Peter s, Rome, which will not be opened again until the next Jubilee

Papal Jubilee / Entry
He opens the Jubilee by entering St Peters Rome, carrying a cross, by the Porta Santa (the only time its ever opened), while priests sweep the sill and sing a Te Deum

Crime / Case / Chudleigh
THE TRIAL OF THE DUCHESS OF KINGSTON Elizabeth, Dowager Duchess of Kingston (1720-1788) at the time of her trial at the Bar of the House of Lords

Gianbattista Piranesi 2
GIANBATTISTA PIRANESI Italian architect and artist

Bathing in the Fleet R
Londoners bathing in the Fleet River : Here strip my Children, here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash thro thick and thin

Charles Bonnet / Border
CHARLES BONNET Swiss naturalist and philosopher surrounded by a decorative border made up of plants and animals - the chain of nature

Virginian Shaman
A Virginian shaman

Magic / Florida
Ceremony observed by a King of Florida before he goes upon an Expedition

7th Earl Haddington
THOMAS HAMILTON, 7TH EARL OF HADDINGTON (on left) To the right of him are Sir William Forbes and Sir James Hunter Blair

London Street, C18
A street scene in London at the time of the South Sea Bubble

England / London / Whitehall
Whitehall from St Jamess Park

Charles Stuart / Anon Oval
Charles Stuart the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie

USA / New Orleans / 1720
A view of the early settlement at New Orleans

Robert Walpole & Wife 1
Sir Robert Walpole and his first wife, Catherine Shorter; he is dressed formally in his state robes while she wears a simple if clearly fine indoor gown

Frenchwoman 1720
The narrowness of her waist emphasises the prodigious width of the ball dress worn by this lady of the court of Louis XV : she wears gloves and carries a handbag

Gilbert White of Selborn
GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE English Naturalist. No known portrait exists, but this engraving appears as the frontispiece to an early edition of his writings

Portable Sun Dial
Combined PORTABLE SUN-DIAL, with a compass so that it can be correctly oriented : made by Butterfield, an Englishman working in Paris

Thomas Hopkins
THOMAS HOPKINS - money-lender so useful to the nobility that he was appointed Commissioner of the Salt Duties. This muckworm is said to have died worth upwards of 200, 000l

Sir Robert Walpole / H O C
SIR ROBERT WALPOLE 1st Earl of Orford English statesman - Whig MP in the House of Commons

Charles Stuart / Scriven
CHARLES EDWARD STUART Known as The Young Pretender in tartan

Florida Sorcerer
A tribal sorcerer in Florida seeks to learn the outcome of a projected military operation

DEVONSHIRE (1720 - 1764)
WILLIAM CAVENDISH, 4th Duke of DEVONSHIRE. British statesman

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