The Lady's Last Stake, originally entitled Piquet: or Virtue in Danger, is a painting by William Hogarth, c. 1759. The work is a conversation piece, capturing...
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posthumously. The Lady's Last Stake / Picquet or Virtue in Danger (1758–59) Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo (1758–59) The Cockpit (1759)...
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collection at the house, among them included Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver by Rembrandt, The Lady's Last Stake and The Gate of Calais...
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1707 in literature (category Years of the 18th century in literature)
Lady Colley Cibber The Lady's Last Stake The Double Gallant Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon – Atrée et Thyeste George Farquhar – The Beaux' Stratagem Alain-René...
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select the subject and price. For Lord Charlemont, Hogarth chose to paint the satirical Piquet, or Virtue in Danger (also known as The Lady's Last Stake, after...
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Buffalo AKG Art Museum (category Contemporary art galleries in the United States)
Gauguin, Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892 Albert Gleizes, L'Homme au Hamac (Man in a Hammock), 1913 William Hogarth, The Lady's Last Stake, 1759 Winslow Homer...
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Frances Abington (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
notably Lady Teazle (1777) in The School for Scandal. In April 1772, when James Northcote saw her as Miss Notable in Cibber's The Lady's Last Stake, he remarked...
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Trump (dog) (category Dogs in the United Kingdom)
He included the dog in several works, including his 1745 self-portrait Painter and his Pug, held by the Tate Gallery. In the words of the Tate's display...
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Death by burning (redirect from Burning at the stake)
The best-known execution of this type is burning at the stake, where the condemned is bound to a large wooden stake and a fire lit beneath. In the process...
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Colley Cibber (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
1707) The Double Gallant (Comedy, Haymarket, 1 November 1707) The Lady's Last Stake OR "The Wife's resentment" (Comedy, Haymarket, 13 December 1707) The Rival...
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Tavern Scene or The Orgy is a work by the English artist William Hogarth from 1735, the third picture from the series A Rake's Progress. A Rake's Progress...
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1707 in Great Britain (redirect from 1707 in the United Kingdom)
(opera) Susanna Centlivre, The Platonick Lady Colley Cibber The Double Gallant The Lady's Last Stake George Farquhar, The Beaux' Stratagem Peter Anthony...
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the 'Lady's Last Stake,' by De Wilde (published 23 June 1795); 3, as Nina in the 'Prisoner' (published 1 Feb. 1796); 4 and 5, as Mary Ann in the The School...
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Sarah Malcolm (category People executed by the Kingdom of Great Britain)
found work in the domestic services sector, working as a laundress for residents above the Inns of the Court. She came to know an old lady named Lydia Duncomb...
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John Trumbull, 1796 Thomas Gilliland, after Samuel De Wilde, 1807 The Lady's Last Stake, engraving after William Hogarth, 1825 "Thomas Cheesman". National...
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Kingdom at Stake, 1553." History Today 3.9 (1953): 642–28. de Lisle, Leanda (2008). The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey...
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Protestant reformer (30 April 1532), while burning at the stake for heresy "That is enough to last till I get to Heaven.": 176 — William Warham, Archbishop...
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in The Conscious Lovers, Cosroe in The Prophetess, Corvino in Volpone, and Lord Wronglove in the Lady's Last Stake (Colley Cibber); and was, in the season...
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Sarah Maria Wilson (section The London stage)
where, as Mrs. Weston, in the summer of 1773 she played Lucy Lockit in the Beggar's Opera, Miss Notable in the 'Lady's Last Stake,' and other comic parts...
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woman from Bermuda (6 or 21 June 1730), looking at the logs prepared to fuel her burning at the stake for poisoning "This is a struggle which all men must...
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1645–48). He was the last diplomat who had participated in the Peace of Westphalia. Pictured in 1647/48, aged ~30. Millvina Dean was the last surviving passenger...
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Balin for the death of variably either her brother or her lover, while he blames her for the death of his mother, who had been burned at the stake) and a...
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Lyudmila Putina (section First Lady)
2004, both Jeffrey Galmond and Anthony Georgiou stated that the 51% stake held since 1995 by the Luxembourg registered firm First National Holding which was...
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The Last Kingdom is a British historical fiction television series based on Bernard Cornwell's The Saxon Stories series of novels. The first season debuted...
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to a stake and the wood around him set on fire. Alice and the others encounter a British relief force led by General Abercrombie. They storm the camp...
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Marian apparition (redirect from Apparition of the Virgin Mary)
the death of the last living Apostle. A Marian apparition, however, is considered private revelation, which may emphasize some facet of the received public...
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Izetta: The Last Witch (終末のイゼッタ, Shūmatsu no Izetta, lit. Izetta of the End, also transcribed in German as Izetta, Die Letzte Hexe) is a 2016 Japanese...
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Aston Martin (category Companies in the FTSE 250 Index)
takes a stake". The Guardian. 15 July 2022. "Breaking: Geely acquires 7.6% stake in Aston Martin". Autocar. 30 September 2022. "Geely takes stake in Aston...
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The following is a list of episodes for the television show Little House on the Prairie, an American Western drama about a family living on a farm in...
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accused of witchcraft. Faced with the prospect of execution by burning at the stake, Hope uttered an incantation that she had overheard her father use. This...
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