Kirsten Tambling is curator of The Clockworks. Her book Shakespearean Objects in the Royal Collection, 1714–1939 is published by Oxford University Press (2025).
The artist’s fashion etchings hint at the delight in transient pleasures that is so evident in his paintings
Louis-Léopold Boilly was a peculiarly adaptable painter in turbulent times
Joseph Highmore’s morality tales are just as engaging as those of his contemporary William Hogarth
