18th Century Material Culture

The Pet Squirrel

Squirrel
Artwork

The Pourtracture of the Lady Elizabeth ...

by Robert Vaughan, Published by Thomas Jenner 1641
(The British Museum)

Dutch Black Squirrel

by Everard Kick c. 1651 - 1700
(The British Museum)

Dutch Squirrel
by Everard Kick c. 1651 - 1700
(The British Museum)

A Barbary Squirrel
by Everard Kick c. 1651 - 1700
(The British Museum)

Still Life with Squirrel & Goldfinch

by Abraham Mignon c. 1669 - 1679
(Museumslandschaft of Hesse in Kassel)

A Dog, Cat, & Squirrel

Published by John Smith c. 1667 - 1725
(The British Museum)

The Lady Neuell

by S. Leader, After Pooly c. 1670 - 1730
(The British Museum)

Young Lady with a Red Squirrel on a Chain & Spaniel

by Frederic Kerseboom (1632 - 1690)
(Private Collection)

Young Girl from Maryland

c. 1708 - 1717
(Winterthur)

Young Girl from Maryland

c. 1708 - 1717
(Winterthur)

Young Girl from Maryland

c. 1708 - 1717
(Winterthur)

An English Squirrel
c. 1720 - 1760
(The British Museum)

A French Woman with Squirrel

c. 1730 - 1740
(National Trust, Basildon Park)

House of Cards
by William Hogarth 1730
(Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales)

The Family of Sir Eldred Lancelot Lee

by Joseph Highmore c. 1736
(Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands, UK)

The Family of Sir Eldred Lancelot Lee

by Joseph Highmore c. 1736
(Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands, UK)

Boy with Squirrel

by N. Brown 1737
(The Potomack Company)

Boy with Squirrel

by N. Brown 1737
(The Potomack Company)

Mary Alcock (American)

1744
(Winterthur)

Mary Alcock (American)

1744
(Winterthur)

American Girl with a Squirrel

by Cosmo Alexander (1724 - 1772)
(Sothebys)

Boy with Squirrel

by Joseph Highman Mid 18th Century
(Rafael Valls Gallery, London, UK)

Rebecca Orne of Boston, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger 1757
(Worcester Art Gallery)

Thomas Mason of Boston, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger 1758
(Historic New England - Estate of Stephen Phillips)

Thomas Mason of Boston, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger 1758
(Historic New England - Estate of Stephen Phillips)

Benjamin Badger of Boston, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger c. 1760 - 1762
(Winterthur)

Portrait of Two Children, Likely from Boston, Massachusetts

by Joseph Badger c. 1760
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

The CHILD and the SQUIRREL.

by Johann Baptist Klauber c. 1760
(The British Museum)

Olive Craster
by Sir Nathaniel Dance - Holland 1762
(Christies)

Olive Craster
by Sir Nathaniel Dance - Holland 1762
(Christies)

A Boy with Squirrel - Henry Pelham

by John Singleton Copley 1765
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

A Boy with Squirrel - Henry Pelham

by John Singleton Copley 1765
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Mrs. Theodore Atkinson (Frances Deering Wentworth

by John Singleton Copley 1765
(Private Collection)

Deborah Hall
by William Williams c. 1766
(Brooklyn Museum of Art)

Deborah Hall
by William Williams c. 1766
(Brooklyn Museum)

FEELING.
by Richard Houston, Published by Carington Bowles, After Robert Pyle c. 1766 - 1799
(The British Museum)

FEELING.
by Gabriel Bodenehr II, Published by Carington Bowles, After Robert Pyle c. 1766 - 1799
(The British Museum)

Boy with a (Mutant Zombie???) Squirrel

by James Beekman, Jr. 1767
(New York Historical Society)

Miss Rattle & Family at Breakfast.

c. 1770 - 1785
(The British Museum)

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

by John Singleton Copley 1771
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

JANUARY AND MAY

by Robert Sayer, After J. Collet 1771
(Lewis Walpole Library)

JANUARY AND MAY

by Robert Sayer, After J. Collet 1771
(Lewis Walpole Library)

JANUARY AND MAY

by Robert Sayer, After J. Collet 1771
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Squirrel
by Sawrey Gilpin c. 1776
(The British Museum)

Book Illustration
by Thomas Berwick c. 1776
(The British Museum)

Book Illustration
by Thomas Berwick c. 1780
(The British Museum)

Book Illustration
by Thomas Berwick c. 1780
(The British Museum)

Book Illustration
by Thomas Berwick c. 1780
(The British Museum)

Book Illustrations
by Thomas Berwick c. 1780
(The British Museum)

Book Illustration
by Thomas Berwick c. 1780
(The British Museum)

Book Illustration
by Thomas Berwick c. 1780
(The British Museum)

Book Illustration
by Thomas Berwick c. 1780
(The British Museum)

The LOVE SICK LADY CURED.

by William Humphrey c. 1780 - 1785
(The British Museum)

The LOVE SICK LADY CURED.

by William Humphrey c. 1780 - 1785
(The British Museum)

To the curious observers of Natural Phenomena. T. Hall

Late 18th Century
(The British Museum)

ANIMATED NATURE OR LADY EN FAMILE

by J. Wicksteed, Covent Garden 1786
(Lewis Walpole Library)

Miss Denison of Stonington, Connecticut (Possibly Matilda Denison)

by the Denison Limner (Probably Joseph Steward) c.1790
(National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

The Virginia Gazette

December 15, 1768
A young Lady's COMPLAINTon the DEATH of her SQUIRREL
A thing so pretty as my PHIL,
A thing so sprightly and so queer,
The pet I lov'd so very dear,
To rob me of the pretty elf,
For him I've lost each night's repose,
Nothing enjoying but my woes.
Oh could my squirrel but survive,
But he is gone ! ne'er to return!
And useless 'tie to sigh and mourn.
I'll therefore seek another pet ,
Amongst the fops or empty beaus,
Because he'd surely make me fret,
And prove a very worthless pet.

Squirrel
Figures

English Porcelain Figure

by the Derby Porcelain Factory Mid 18th Century
(Canterbury Auctions)

English Soft Paste Porcelain Figure from Derby

by William Duesbury & Co. c. 1765
(Victoria & Albert)

English Soft Paste Porcelain Figure from Derby

by William Duesbury & Co. c. 1780
(Victoria & Albert)

Dutch Tin Glazed Earthenware Figure

c. 1700 - 1770
(Winterthur)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Figure from Staordshire

c. 1760 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Figure from Staordshire

by Burslem Factory c. 1780 - 1790
(Victoria & Albert)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Figure from Staordshire

by Ralph Wood c. 1760
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Figure from Staordshire

c. 1785
(John Howard)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Figure from Staordshire

c. 1785
(John Howard)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Figure from Staordshire

c. 1785
(John Howard)

German Meissen Porcelain Figure

by J.J. Kandler Mid 18th Century
(Alexanders Antiques)

Squirrel
Bottles & Boxes

English Agate Scent Bottle & Box

c. 1760
(Cleveland Museum of Art)

German Hard Paste Porcelain Snu Box

Decorated by Johann Andreas Bechdol of the Schrezheim Manufactory c. 1761 - 1770
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Squirrel
Needlepoint

American Linen Sampler

by Elizabeth Russell 1719
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

German Linen Sampler

c. 1765
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

American Wool, Silk, & Linen Needlepoint Picture from Suolk County, Massachusetts
c. 1745 - 1765
(Winterthur)

American Wool, Silk, & Linen Needlepoint Picture from Suolk County, Massachusetts
c. 1745 - 1765
(Winterthur)

Squirrel
Foodwares

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Coee Pot from Staordshire

c. 1745
(Victoria & Albert)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Coee Pot from Staordshire

c. 1745
(Manchester City Galleries)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Coee Pot from Staordshire

c. 1750 - 1760
(Manchester City Galleries)

English Lead Glazed Earthenware Salt Cellar

c. 1750 - 1760
(Manchester City Galleries)

English Soft Paste Porcelain Sauce Boat fro Worcester

by the Royal Worcester Porcelain Factory c. 1755
(Victoria & Albert)

English Glass Bottle with Squirrel Seal

c. 1711 - 1730
(Museum of London)

Squirrel
Currency

North Carolina Currency

1776
(Colonial Williamsburg Foundation)

Signs, Etc.

Dutch Coat of Arms

by Frans Lamminga, Published by Albertus Magnus c. 1678
(The British Museum)

Sign of Ye Three Squirrels

Mid - Late 17th Century
(Barclays Group Archives)

I Think He
Finally Lost
His Freakin Mind...

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