et moi je signe; beaumarchais

Details: Two English Ships Wrecked in a Storm on a Rocky Coast, 1700, by Willem van de Velde the Younger (Dutch, 1633-1707)

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There you are, Miss L. Care to stand up with me and trip the light fantastic?

SANDITON (2019)

A top quality English hunting sword or hanger, from the reign of George III, featuring a heavily blued and gilded blade. The straight, unfullered blade being 58cm long and single-edged, with a short false edge. The GR III monogram is engraved deeply in the blued section of the blade and then highlighted with gilding. On the other side is the Royal coat of arms and on both sides are additional motifs including stands of arms. The hilt with s-quillons and side shell having fittings of gilt brass, with an antler grip bound with copper wire. Housed in its matching scabbard (with period repair), with gilt brass fittings and matching original by-knife, having antler grip scales to a full tang, with a rounded-tip. Overall length in scabbard 74cm.

Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert (details). By Rembrandt, 1633

1917 (2019) dir. Sam Mendes

From Tessier & Sarrou

Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg // Thomas Linley the elder | Thomas Gainsborough

The Battle of Paoli (also known as the Battle of Paoli Tavern or the Paoli Massacre) was a battle in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 20, 1777,

“I had the offer of the first troop, in the 2d regiment of light dragoons.”  (Tallmadge p. 16,19)

Medium: Silk plain weave (faille) with silk embroidery.

Ben and Caleb, early season one (for @morticia-mia)

Samuel Warren (detail) – John Linnell, 1840