Sentences with phrase «late eighteenth»

Inspired by traditional late eighteenth century antique Welsh dressers, our Powys Dresser makes a fantastic repository for your family treasures.

Anne explained, «The Dutch secretary (below) is late eighteenth century (and should probably be in a museum some where) and was given to us by Marr's grandmother whose father was an antique dealer in Los Angeles.

This design, inspired by traditional late eighteenth century antique Welsh dressers, is perfect for displaying china or glassware in a kitchen.

Founded in the late eighteenth century, it has come a long way and is one of the leaders of this trade in the country.

O'Conner and Kellerman say that «by the late eighteenth century, contractions were in disgrace, tolerated in speech but an embarrassment in writing» because elites on both sides of the Atlantic thought them «harsh - sounding, vulgar, low class, ill mannered, or overly familiar.»

Early developers industrialized in the late eighteenth century or early nineteenth centuries and their per - capita emissions over more than 200 years add up to more than those of the late developers, like China.

In the late eighteenth century industry powered by coal was innovative, in the twenty - first century coal is finished and any government that can not accept that fact is doing a great disservice to its people.

Thomas Malthus was writing about these things since the late eighteenth century.

This exhibition explores colonial settlement in Australia through a stunning selection of late eighteenth and nineteenth century works on paper.

The Terra Foundation collection comprises 731 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures dating from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century by artists such as John Singleton Copley, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Marsden Hartley, and Edward Hopper.

Contemplating Character explores the evolution of portraiture from the late eighteenth century to the contemporary, reflecting the many styles and movements during this wide expanse of time.

A select collection of Russian icons from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is also on view.

For Adam Cvijanovic's third solo show at Bellwether Gallery, Love Poem (10 Minutes After the End of Gravity), he has created two monumental paintings that hark back to the triumphant decoration of late eighteenth - century Rococo.

Among the earliest landscape paintings of the region, are those by Thomas Coram and Charles Fraser from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Professor Rosenblum does himself less than justice: he is neither the simple mainline neoconservative that he pretends or the swinging elder statesman evoked by his repeated claims of solidarity with «art historians... of a younger generation» and «anyone under forty,» but an original and sometimes brilliantly eccentric critic, distinguished among other things for his persuasive work on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as well as for his astonishingly early and penetratingly intelligent recognition of Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Frank Stella.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style.

References to Francisco Goya's late eighteenth century print They've Already Got a Seat (from the Los Caprichos series) appear through choices in costuming, notably in the upside - down chair affixed directly to Martins's head, and Joseph Beuys is evoked through the props of a felt blanket, wooden cane, and taxidermied animal.

A «phantasmagoria» was a pre-cinematic theatrical show, devised in France in the late eighteenth century, which gained popularity throughout Europe in the nineteenth century.

Historically, the octobass is a larger version of the double bass and there are at most only four octobasses in the world, two of them were created in the late eighteenth century and are now in museums in Paris and the US.

The museum's holdings from Eastern Asia include Chinese tomb figures, Japanese prints and illustrated books from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Exceptional examples include a late eighteenth - century portrait by the New England artist John Brewster, Jr.; a lush, highly detailed nineteenth - century still life by Severin Roesen, a German - born artist based in Williamsport in the 1860s; exquisite nineteenth - century landscapes by William Sonntag, John Kensett, and William Trost Richards; and an impressive range of twentieth - century paintings and sculptures by artists, including Marsden Hartley, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, and Marisol.

Alexandra Zoë Dostal is a PhD student focusing on British and French art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

It includes lithographs, engravings, aquatints, photogravures, and woodcuts created by artists of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.

Stephanie O'Rourke is a PhD candidate at Columbia University, where she specializes in late eighteenth - to early twentieth - century visual culture.

An important new component was a group of forty - eight oil sketches by artists of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many of whom were already represented in the exhibition.

The early «settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras» grew from a few habitations located at Belize Town and St George's Caye into a de-facto colony of the United Kingdom during the late eighteenth century.

This settlement is believed to be the location of Fort McLoughlin, an important post during the Maritime Fur Trade for the Hudson's Bay Company in the late eighteenth Century.

The historic Audubon Cottages date back to the late eighteenth century and offer a truly one - of - a-kind experience for small weddings or events.

The historic Audubon Cottages were built shortly after two great fires destroyed most of the city in the late eighteenth century.

This is a clever reconstruction of Acadian life from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, and brings together more than forty historical buildings, saved from destruction elsewhere.

Though the Company formed in 2012, its heritage dates back to the late eighteenth century.

Similarly, Rosen, citing the example of late eighteenth - century England, quotes Edgar Shepherd who, attributing the rise in mental illness to the «wear and tear of a civilization,» speculated on the reasons for the differential prevalences of mental disorder between the sexes.

Although the book is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, it is easy to identify with the characters.

In the late eighteenth century, a scientist named Luigi Galvani performed an experiment on a frog, making a slight cut just beneath the frog's skin to expose nerve cells.

«The Crimson Petal and the White meets Fight Club: A page - turning novel set in the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late eighteenth - century England.»

The term horsepower was adopted in the late eighteenth century.

A reworking of Errol Flynn's 1933 adventure, «In the Wake of the Bounty,» Lloyd's version tells the story of the successful mutiny of part of the crew, which took place in the late eighteenth century in the South Seas.

The Sherwani originated in South Asia and was the court dress of nobles of the royals of India, before being more adopted in the late eighteenth century.

For example, sites in western Europe have lost more than 20 - 30 % of their species on average since the Industrial Revolution (late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries).

The other threat to republican virtue in the late eighteenth century, which formed a point of contention especially in the American context between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, was the sheer size of the territorial state.

It was axiomatic in the republican tradition prior to the late eighteenth century that republics had to be small.

Though they could imagine that modern states might, like Britain, have a relatively democratic component, few of those who knew the term thought that «democracy» had any relevance to the growing commercial empires of late eighteenth - century Europe.

A republican tradition without either The Federalist Papers or The Social Contract, texts which are clearly central to the two great republican revolutions of the late eighteenth century in France and North America, would be rather poor though.

It is impossible, for instance, to analyze the dismantling of slavery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries apart from a host of political developments — specifically liberal ones, but also specifically Christian ones, derived in part from evangelical missionary attitudes and discoveries.

But what the sixteenth and early seventeenth century gave the late eighteenth century was not so much a set of culture - fragmenting ideas as a bequest of violence.

It failed to see the late eighteenth - century struggle with England in terms of a long ongoing struggle between the colonies and the mother country.

White settlers, many of whom were convicts sent there involuntarily, started arriving in Australia in the late eighteenth century.

2:2 — «The pure milk of the word of the sociological Gospel, perfected in the late eighteenth century has gone sour» («The Study of the Past» in ESP 155).

What they said and how they said it was a joy to hear in comparison with some of the dry doctrinal fare of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Yet the moral ideals that Christendom had bequeathed to the late eighteenth and nineteenth century — ideals such as benevolence, civility, and justice — all retained a deep existential relevance.