A Woodsrunner's Diary: June 2018

The Charlatan (1756), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Casanova’s Europe
Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century

July 8, 2018 – October 8, 2018
Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31)

https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/casanovas-europe

Miguel Cabrera, De español y negra, mulata (From male Spaniard and Black Female, Mulata), c. 1763. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-18th-century-paintings-interracial-mexican-families-based-lie

Beneath the Silent Canopy By David Wright.

www.lordnelsons.com

A young Mi’kmaq woman, left, will stroll the streets of the national historic site attired in traditional dress. The dress was made by a group of women from Potlotek First Nation.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1579583-potlotek-women-create-model-18th-century-mi%E2%80%99kmaq-dress

Step back in time and visit the Revolutionary War-era village of Hanna's Town which served as the first English Court west of the Allegheny Mountains at the frontier court re-enactment June 23-24. Experience the excitement of the people as they gathered, between 1773-1786, to witness the trials of those who were accused, convicted and punished.

http://triblive.com/lifestyles/history/13757328-74/to-the-stocks-hannas-town-plans-annual-frontier-court

Georgian warship Invincible sank after smashing into a sandbank shortly after leaving Portsmouth in February 1758.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6535275/diver-recovers-sand-timer-warship-invincible-isle-wight/

Not the one found, but an example of an 18th century sand hour glass.

https://www.aaawt.com/html/gallery36.html

Lov na race; čakališče na jezeru pri jami Lisišče (1759) by Franz Anton von Steinberg which depicts waterfowl hunting.

"There happened to be an iron pot and an ax on board--- they cut off a piece of the boat rope, and picked it to oakum, and putting it in the pan of a gun, with some powder, catched it on fire, which with some thin pieces cut from the mast, they kindled in the pot, and then cut up their mast, seats, &c. for fuel, and making a tent of their sail, wrapt themselves as well as they could;"

From The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1765, 3 men trapped in the ice in their boat during a waterfowl hunt and likely to freeze to death:

The wood on this 1480 edition of the Vulgate bears the traces of a manuscript wrapped around it.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/book-waste-printed-garbage

Maine Wildlife Park volunteer Miriam Bisbee throws the hatchet with Dave Bryant of Maine living history group The Ancient Ones.

http://www.sunjournal.com/living-history-re-enactors-at-maine-wildlife-park/

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Its cold outside, let's spin some wool...: I’m spinning some black merino fleece I washed at Christmas. Not as soft and nice as the Polwarth I spun recently but I don’t want to leave ...

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Woad in Canberra: I planted some woad (Isatis tinctoria) in my garden in early March. It is still thriving, larger but staying low over the winter. I've ...

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Inkle Loom: I received an Ashford Inkle Loom today that has been in storage for some time and needs a little bit of TLC. I'm sanding it back with a...