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Such hoaxes were outrageous enough to make their perpetrators seem almost dignified in their raffishness. But forgeries have regularly caused more than empty pockets and red faces. One cut short a poetic career full of brilliant promise. In the 1760s, Thomas Chatterton, a teen-ager from Bristol, England, invented a 15th century monk called Thomas Rowley and wrote medieval-looking manuscripts of inspired poetry under the name. He had hoped to demonstrate his skills under a false identity and then reveal himself as the author when the public's attention was won. Before that could happen, the ruse...
...small, ornately bound volume yielded" a special electricshock," says Bond, turning it over in his hands. He discovered immediately that it was one of the books given to Harvard in the 1760s by Thomas Hollis V "That's why this has been a good career," says William Bond
Since 1759, when the Wedgwood firm was founded, many people have found it a superb investment. Its backstraps, first applied in the 1760s, first indicated Wedgwood's value as a collector's item. The popularity of the ornamental pieces evolved with changes in taste: the baroque and rococo styles were began to give way in the 18th-century to more classical designs, as a result of the discoveries in both Greece and Italy. Lord Wedgwood himself only collects contemporary pieces. He explains, "I really don't like living in a museum-type atmosphere. All the pieces I have are very...
...wife upon the meaning of a drawing from the antique is almost poignant; there cannot have been too many couples like them back home. Copley was a brilliant recorder of the human face, the female face especially. The portraits of the middle-aged women he painted in the 1760s are so dense and assured, warts and all, that one may well prefer them to the more florid exercises in the manner of Gainsborough that Copley resorted to when, in London, he wanted to rival West...
...Lyndon. The reviewers will tell you O'Neal is a rogueish Lyndon. He seemed to me to be the type of guy who gets hit by the Second Avenue Subway while trying to rape a Tactical Force policeman in drag. Kubrick also ignores a potentially exciting view of the 1760s--the Hogarthian underside of English society. All told, the carefully composed landscapes and Kubrick's use of a new German lens to film in candlelight just save this film from being potboiler par excellance. That Kubrick's visuals can overcome such poor acting is a credit to his skill with...