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1796 Portrait of an American Family
1796 Jonathan Budington (American artist, 1766-1854). Portrait of George Eliot and Family.Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive &...
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1795 Portrait of an American Family
1795 Unknown Artist. The Cheney Family.Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually so large, that they required a sizable...
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1795 Portrait of an American Family
c 1795 John Brewster Jr. (American painter, 1766-1854) Deacon Eliphaz Thayer and His Wife, DeliveranceFamily portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were...
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.Burgeoning cities in EnglandDuring the 18th century, English life started to breed the money-fuelled materialism that we are familiar with today. As landowners forced peasants off their land, freeing...
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1795 Portrait of an American Family
1795 James Peale (American artist, 1749-1831). The Artist & His Family.Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually so...
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The Art of Cookery by Hanna Glassie
.The first American edition of The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse was published in Alexandria, Virginia in 1805. The English edition of the cookbook had been available in the colonies for decades. The...
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1790s Portrait of an American Family
1790s Josè Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (Mexican-born Louisiana artist, 1750–1802) Family of Don Antonio Mendez (1750-1829)Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies,...
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The Frugal Houswife Available in America 1772
.Pehr Hilleström (Swedish artist, 1732-1816) A Maid Taking Soup from a Cauldron A cookbook available in the early American republic wasSusannah CarterThe Frugal Housewife, or Complete Woman...
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1793 Portrait of an American Family
1793 Joseph Wright (American artist, 1756-1793). The Wright Family (Joseph & Sarah with children Harriet, Sarah, & Joseph).Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies,...
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A Short Tea Story
.Anna Green Winslow (1759-1779) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the daughter of Joshua Winslow & his wife Anna Green. In 1770, at the age of 10, she was sent south to a finishing school in...
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1790 Portrait of an American Family
1790 John Brewster Jr. (American painter, 1766-1854) Morgan Family PortraitFamily portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually so...
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A Tiny Tea Story
.Creamware Tea Pot from Leeds c 1780In America during the 18th century, young & the old from all levels of society occasionally spent their leisure time taking tea together.Elizabeth Fuller...
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1789 Portrait of an American Family
1789 Edward Savage (American artist, 1761-1817). The George Washington Family.Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually so...
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Stirring the Revolutionary Teapot
.1765 Joshia Wedgwood Success to Trade in America and No Stamp Act1765 No Stamp Act and American Liberty Restored.
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1788 Portrait of an American Family
1788 Johannes Eckstein (American artist, 1736-1817) The Samuels Family (with tea!)Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually...
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Tea Embargo Is Over! - Tea Pots for a New Republic
.c 1780 LEEDS Creamware Tea Pot with Traditional Black Transfer Decorationc 1780 Seth Pennington Liverpool Tea Pot.c 1780 Wedgewood Creamwarec 1780 Worcester Tea Potc 1785 New Hall Barrel-Shape,...
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1789 Portrait of an American Family
1789 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827). Robert Goldsborough & Family.Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive &...
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1772 Portrait of an American Family
1772 Charles Willson Peale (American artist, 1741-1827). John and Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader and daughter AnneFamily portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because...
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1787 Portrait of an American Family
1787 Henry Benbridge (American artist, 1743-1812). The Hartley Family.Family portraits are rare in the early 18C British American colonies, perhaps because they were expensive & usually so large,...
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Late 18th-Century Landscapes of South Carolina
South Carolina artist Charles Fraser (1782-1860) painted some watercolors of the landscapes he saw around him in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These are from the Carolina Art Association...
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