Sarah Fisichella
@rococo-reinette.bsky.social
Budding art historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Looking to move to the UK permanently soon, hopefully to pursue an MA in Historic Interiors & Decorative Arts. Also love English country houses, natural history, and tornadoes. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
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Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers.
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Instagram is an absolute close stool of a website but this post from the legendary Ivan Day on the serving of early modern pies is totally essential
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Instagram is an absolute close stool of a website but this post from the legendary Ivan Day on the serving of early modern pies is totally essential
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
www.instagram.com/p/DQxpkIpDIG8/
(All images are his and are fully described in his post - read more there!)
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This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.
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A pair of Saint-Cloud potpourris, circa 1735, thickly-molded white porcelain vases of ovoid shape with encrusted flower swags and matching reticulated covers. Designed as a gadrooned vase perched on a mound of rocks with vegetation. They're big and fit nicely on the mantel over the fireplace. (ALT)
November 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
A pair of Saint-Cloud potpourris, circa 1735, thickly-molded white porcelain vases of ovoid shape with encrusted flower swags and matching reticulated covers. Designed as a gadrooned vase perched on a mound of rocks with vegetation. They're big and fit nicely on the mantel over the fireplace. (ALT)
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
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Some kind of metaphor going on here
[Benjamin Russell, Popping Corn, ca. 1865, watercolor on paper, 6 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (15.9 × 23.2 cm) (New Bedford Whaling Museum)]
[Benjamin Russell, Popping Corn, ca. 1865, watercolor on paper, 6 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (15.9 × 23.2 cm) (New Bedford Whaling Museum)]
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Some kind of metaphor going on here
[Benjamin Russell, Popping Corn, ca. 1865, watercolor on paper, 6 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (15.9 × 23.2 cm) (New Bedford Whaling Museum)]
[Benjamin Russell, Popping Corn, ca. 1865, watercolor on paper, 6 1/4 × 9 1/8 in. (15.9 × 23.2 cm) (New Bedford Whaling Museum)]
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Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
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November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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On display at ‘Marie Antoinette Style’ fashion plate (etching) showing an Amazone-style redingote, 1787.
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
On display at ‘Marie Antoinette Style’ fashion plate (etching) showing an Amazone-style redingote, 1787.
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Very happy to be finishing my final (!!) chapter of my PhD this week, which includes the V&A's glorious Lady Clapham as illustrative material.
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Very happy to be finishing my final (!!) chapter of my PhD this week, which includes the V&A's glorious Lady Clapham as illustrative material.
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
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African spurred tortoise from ‘Cimelia physica’ engraved and colored by John Frederick Miller with descriptions by George Shaw. Printed by T. Bensley for B. and J. White, London, 1796.
Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections.
#rarebooks #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart
Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections.
#rarebooks #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
African spurred tortoise from ‘Cimelia physica’ engraved and colored by John Frederick Miller with descriptions by George Shaw. Printed by T. Bensley for B. and J. White, London, 1796.
Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections.
#rarebooks #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart
Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections.
#rarebooks #naturalhistory #sciart #animalart
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November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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This diptych was made for a London scrivener or local clerk, Henry Farley, as part of his campaign for the restoration of St Paul’s Cathedral from 1615 until 1622.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This diptych was made for a London scrivener or local clerk, Henry Farley, as part of his campaign for the restoration of St Paul’s Cathedral from 1615 until 1622.
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We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 AM
We're in the "raping young teenage girls isn't pedophilia" part of the cope from MAGA.
These people are evil.
These people are evil.
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Hand painted title page of ‘Collection de fleurs, d'oiseaux d'insectes.’ Drawn and colored, some from nature, others from the colored plates of Buffon, Roezel, and Catesby by various students of the Royal School of Sorèze. Manuscript, 1783-1789.
I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
November 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Hand painted title page of ‘Collection de fleurs, d'oiseaux d'insectes.’ Drawn and colored, some from nature, others from the colored plates of Buffon, Roezel, and Catesby by various students of the Royal School of Sorèze. Manuscript, 1783-1789.
I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
I saw this at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
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This includes close-up images of the embroidered textiles that once adorned Queen Catherine of Braganza's state bed.
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This includes close-up images of the embroidered textiles that once adorned Queen Catherine of Braganza's state bed.
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Who's a good weesle headed armadillo?! This engraving of what we now call a a nine-banded armadillo is from Nehemiah Grew's 'Musaeum Regalis Societatis', a 1681 catalogue 'of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal society'.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Who's a good weesle headed armadillo?! This engraving of what we now call a a nine-banded armadillo is from Nehemiah Grew's 'Musaeum Regalis Societatis', a 1681 catalogue 'of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal society'.
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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Had the pleasure this past week of my partner indulging my seventeenth-century monomania on a birthday break.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Had the pleasure this past week of my partner indulging my seventeenth-century monomania on a birthday break.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
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So glad Lily is back with new music.
If you haven't listened to hear new album yet... ur missing out babes.
If you haven't listened to hear new album yet... ur missing out babes.
Lily Allen - Pussy Palace (Visualiser)
YouTube video by Lily Allen
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November 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
So glad Lily is back with new music.
If you haven't listened to hear new album yet... ur missing out babes.
If you haven't listened to hear new album yet... ur missing out babes.
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One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🐱
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
One of my favourite student seminars of the year, looking at Venetian Sessa imprints wry cats @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 🐱
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The Graham children, with their toys and (of course) their pets. Portrayed in 1742 by William Hogarth, whose day has been today.
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The Graham children, with their toys and (of course) their pets. Portrayed in 1742 by William Hogarth, whose day has been today.
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Fashion plate from 1779 showing a woman wearing robe à la Polonaise of silk taffeta, the skirt decorated with a border of indienne (painted or printed cotton). A 'therèse' (transparant mesh hood) is worn to protect the hairstyle. #FashionPlateFriday #dresshistory #18thc
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Fashion plate from 1779 showing a woman wearing robe à la Polonaise of silk taffeta, the skirt decorated with a border of indienne (painted or printed cotton). A 'therèse' (transparant mesh hood) is worn to protect the hairstyle. #FashionPlateFriday #dresshistory #18thc