#farquhar

[mackeda]

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

David Farquhar

[ozu-teapot]

The House of Usher | Alan Birkinshaw | 1989

Carole Farquhar, Anne Stradi

[introvertedpedant]

Browsing through an online newspaper archive and up popped this in Wales on Sunday from 1989. Stephen Dillane as Archer in The Beaux' Stratagem.

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[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #WorldTapirDay! These paintings of an adult & juvenile Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus) are 2 of the 477 watercolors of flora & fauna by Chinese artists commissioned by William Farquhar when he was the Resident of Malacca from 1803-18, now in the National Museum of Singapore.

Tapir of Malacca William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings Malacca, Malaysia watercolour on paper 37.6 x 54.1 cm (Image) / 58 x 44 cm (Mount) National Museum of Singapore Accession No. 1995-02885

Young Tapir of Malacca William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings Malacca, Malaysia watercolour on paper 38 x 54.2 cm (Image) / 58 x 44 cm (Mount) National Museum of Singapore Accession No. 1995-02884

[disneytva]

Mercury Filmworks becomes the new animation services house for The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder Season 3 alongside Snipple Animation Studios,

Mercury Filmworks replaces Wild Brain Studios ("My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic","Littlest Pet Shop", "LEGO Monkey Kid") who previously handled Season 1 & Season 2.

[fluentisonus]

As it is Acted at the THEATRE ROYAL in DURY-LANE By Her MAGESTY'S Servants. Written by Mr. FARQUHAR LONDON Price 1 s. 6 d.

[rosalie-starfall]

Susan Emily Gilchrist & Major Farquhar Chevening

St. Ives - 1998

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Evelyn Farquhar (1906) by John Lavery

[burningvelvet]

On Lord Byron and Count Alfred D’Orsay:

Above are sketches of Lord Byron taken from life by Count Alfred D’Orsay, who Byron described as “a very handsome companion,” “one of the few specimens I have seen of our ideal of a Frenchman,” and who he nicknamed "the young philosopher" and “Cupidon déchaîné” (“raging Cupid”) after a scene from the 1707 play The Beaux' Stratagem by George Farquhar, where a man describes what the ideal portrait of his lover should look like:

Count D’Orsay was famously called the “archangel of dandyism.” He was an artist for the elite, a writer of observation, socialite, dandy, Bonapartist, “man of fashion,” and long-time adulterer with the writer Lady Blessington, whose daughter she had him marry as a front. They divorced, and he eventually died in Paris buried in debts with Lady Blessington. She was a close friend of Lord Byron which is how he got to know D’Orsay better, since D’Orsay lived and travelled with the Blessington family, the husband of which he is also sometimes speculated to have had an affair with. Byron exchanged lavish gifts with the Blessingtons: “I also enclose a ring which I would wish Alfred to keep — it is too large to wear but is formed of Lava — and so far adapted to the fire of his years and character.” D'Orsay was in his early twenties and had already become a popular figure.

A letter Byron wrote to Count Alfred is as follows:

"April 22. 1823.

My dear Count — (if you will permit me to address you so familiarly), you should be content with writing in your own language, like Grammont, and succeeding in London as nobody has succeeded since the days of Charles the Second and the records of Antonio Hamilton, without deviating into our barbarous language, — which you understand and write, however, much better than it deserves.

"My 'approbation,' as you are pleased to term it, was very sincere, but perhaps not very impartial; for, though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen — at least, such as they now are. And, besides the seduction of talent and wit in your work, I fear that to me there was the attraction of vengeance. I have seen and felt much of what you have described so well. I have known the persons, and the re-unions so described, — (many of them, that is to say,) and the portraits are so like that I cannot but admire the painter no less than his performance.

But I am sorry for you; for if you are so well acquainted with life at your age, what will become of you when the illusion is still more dissipated? But never mind — en avant! — live while you can; and that you may have the full enjoyment of the many advantages of youth, talent, and figure, which you possess, is the wish of an — Englishman, — I suppose, but it is no treason; for my mother was Scotch, and my name and my family are both Norman; and as for myself, I am of no country. As for my 'Works,' which you are pleased to mention, let them go to the Devil, from whence (if you believe many persons) they came."

From the biography D'Orsay; or, The Complete Dandy (Teignmouth, 1911):

"But it is of importance to know that he fell before the charms of the irresistible D'Orsay. Indeed so blinded was he with admiration that he not only discovered the young Frenchman to be 'clever, original, unpretending,' but also stated that 'he affected to be nothing that he was not.' We fancy D'Orsay would not have counted an accusation of modesty as a compliment."

Sources: Lord Byron's letters and journals, Lady Blessington's letters and journals, D'Orsay; or, The Complete Dandy by Teignmouth, 1911.

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Interview with Test Dept.

ZigZag Magazine, March 1984. Scanned by me.

[ulrichgebert]

Nach all dem Unfug ein Klassiker aus dem National Theatre. Von 1707! Verarmte Schönlinge versuchen mit List, bevor sie in den Krieg ziehen müssten, stattdessen reiche Frauen zu heiraten und geben sich in einer zweifelhafen Spelunke als reiche Edelmann mit Diener aus. Da es sich bei The Beaux' Stratagem um eine Komödie handelt, klappt das natürlich, nach einigen Schwierigkeiten. Daß eine der reichen Frauen verheiratet ist, ist noch die kleinste. Aus dem National Theatre mit dem immer entzückenden Samuel Barnett, Gesang, Tanz und irgendwie schon wieder reichlich Unfug.

[ratatoskryggdrasil]

David Farquhar

[ozu-teapot]

The House of Usher | Alan Birkinshaw | 1989

[ladychandraofthemoone]

Do Sandy and Kana exist in this universe? If so, were their basis changed so as to keep faithful to the series' British roots? (for example, Sandy being changed from a Motorcar/Rail Speeder into a BR Class 15)

Hi, Sandy and Kana do exist in my au. Sandy is a fairmont mt14 rail speeder/inspection trolley built by the current CME at Crovan’s Gate Dr. Ruth Bell who has also built Philip and Cleo, thus becoming siblings like and best friends. She is currently owned by the works though Sandy loften shunt at the big stations but usually is seen doing track repairs and maintenance on all of the others as well alongside the works gang/crew with her ability to switch her tools.

Sandy also acts as Ruth’s main personal inspection trolley since Cleo isn’t that use to the busy railway life. Also fun fact, both Sandy and Cleo can switch their gauges from miniature-narrow-standard (though this might change for Cleo) sandy especially to help out with maintenance on all the railways (except the cfr though knowing how much spunk and a bit of a daredevil Sandy is, that’s probably for the best.)

Kana on the other hand, works on the Peel Godred Branchline alongside her twin Akira, Riff and Jiff (who’s names are changed) Stafford and a bunch of ocs having been introduced during my take of the International Railway Show Competition in the 90s-early 2000s. Kana and Akira are high speed electric engines (they are either Class 951 Shinkansen built in the 1970s or my take of the BR Class 93 (InterCity 250) billy by Hitachi Rail (so they’re a A-train). that works on the Peel Godred Branch Line extension from Peel Godred to Barrow-In-Furness. They’re both very good friends with the CFR engines.

Once Ruth attempted to make them and some of the other electric engines independent from electricity albeit via power charging stations hence to why Kana tries to go about the island more while the other were content being in one place, mainly to the earl’s estate railway despite her battery draining quicker though they have charging stations in the museums since she’s rechargeable like Stafford as Ruth helped install it at Crovan’s Gate Works, there’s also charging stations at both Ulfstead, Vicarstown and of course Peel Godred itself.

thank you for the ask 👋😊😊

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy #WorldBinturongDay!

This watercolor is from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, a collection of 477 images of native biota of the Malay Peninsula by anonymous Chinese artists commissioned between 1803-18:

Binturong, c. 1803-1818 Anonymous Chinese artist William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings National Museum of Singapore

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