On Monday I blogged about this portrait of Richard Croft’s children—where Herbert, aged ten, is lying in the pose of Melancholy, in the background in partial shadow, due to his having died.
The children’s father, the 6th Baronet Richard Croft,… Read More
In 1700, unmarried women were taxed in Berlin (possibly to promote marriage and childbirth, or possibly because unmarried women who worked were a threat to the guild system).