1751

Showing 10 works across all media from 1751

Landscape · True-view landscape

Clearing after Rain on Mount Inwang (Inwangjesaekdo)

Jeong Seon

1751 · National Museum of Korea, Seoul

Instead of copying idealized Chinese scenery, Jeong Seon walked out and painted a real hill above Seoul with the rain just lifting off it.

★ 7.3

Nude painting · Rococo

Mademoiselle O'Murphy

Francois Boucher

1751 · Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

Louise O'Murphy was a teenage favorite of Louis XV, and Boucher painted her face-down across the cushions for private consumption.

★ 6.1

Such is the delight of mental superiority , that none on, whom nature or study have conferred it, would purchase the gifts of fortune by its loss.

Samuel Johnson

1751

★ 5.3

Almanac

Great Estates may venture more; Little Boats must keep near Shore.

Benjamin Franklin

1751

★ 4.7

Poem

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751

★ 4.5

Almanac

‘Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.

Benjamin Franklin

1751

★ 3.8

Poem

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751

★ 3.5

Poem

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard · 1751

★ 3.5

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Samuel Johnson

1751

★ 1.9

Novel

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Amelia · 1751

★ 1.9