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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… (the relation between someone able to dispense something with social or economic value, such as money, connections, public acknowledgment, positions and someone who was able to return the favour with artistic or scientific productions) … the relation between someone able to dispense something with social or economic value (such as money, connections, public acknowledgment, positions) and someone who was able to return the favour with artistic or scientific productions. … p. 3-4; James Ralph, The Case of Authors by Profession or Trade, Stated. With Regard to Booksellers, the Stage, and the Public. No Matter by Whom (London: R. Griffiths, 1758). 2 . Paul J. Korshin, ‘Types of Eighteenth-Century Literary …
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Vauxhall [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Leisure Keywords Entertainement Exhibitions Gothic Music Nature Pleasure gardens Vauxhall pleasure garden was one of the public outdoor places of sociability: the ‘ pleasure gardens’ would enable visitors, for a fee, to meet acquaintances … the garden to meet occasional acquaintances, dining in an arbour with one’s own circle, attending concerts with a larger public. The architectural layout was planned to encourage the blend of such modes of sociability, ranging from open … fairground and that of cultural venues such as the concert hall and the picture gallery, putting artistic genres in the public sphere. Vauxhall thus contributed to the idea that polite pleasures defined new forms of sociability. It invited …
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Royal Academy of Arts [ Institutions ]
… were forged during the annual banquet. The exhibition held at Somerset House from 1780 was the means to create a public, who, with the exception of the lower classes, excluded by an entrance fee, could share in the experience of … than by the egalitarian principle that prevailed in some clubs or in Hogarth’s Academy. 5 1 . See Daniel Roche, Les Républicains des Lettres (Paris, Fayard, 1988), p. 165. 2 . The Instrument of Foundation [1768], in Sydney C. Hutchison, … the social mixing of artists and their potential patrons. 6 At the end of the century the Academy’s banquet polarized public interest: it acquired a stronger political significance as a show of support for royalty while becoming a frequent …
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… predecessors to the more formal zoological societies of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded, private and public menageries were populated by exotic animals seen as objects of fascination and wonder and whose aim was to … and New Daily Advertiser ; Middlesex Journal or Chronicle of Liberty, Jackson’s Oxford Journal and many others). The public opinion was soon outraged at the three-penny admission fee illegally required by the Queen’s Guard who refused to … Exhibition ̶ which are some of the most collectable items still on sale today ̶ were also produced functioning to publicise his menagerie as well as to promote businesses. The featured animals on the verso of the tokens – standing …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… 646 808 M58 v.1., 1808. Image Detail from the Catalogue of the Most remarkable Collection of Prints ever offered to the public, for Greenwood’s auction sale of 1786’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 125 G971 786 Copy … place in key centres of sociability – the coffeehouses. 4 In England and Ireland, this was a transgression of sorts, as public sales of goods were often controlled by a monopoly. In Scotland, for example the town council control over such … Hans J. van Miegroet (eds.), Mapping Markets for Paintings in Europe, 1450 – 1750 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), p. 263–84. Public sales of goods were increasingly made up of household goods after decease. As the household consumption of …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… intimate relationships intersected with economic transactions and the development of a taste for the arts among a large public. It was often supplemented with a ‘showroom’ serving as both an ante-chamber to the artist’s creative sanctuary and an art gallery. With a growing number of men and women with money and a desire for publicity commissioning their portraits, the business of Society portraitists thrived, with London serving as a magnet … France, 2020), p. 530. Private showrooms were undoubtedly precious in promoting an artist’s talent in cities without a public exhibition – such as Bath in the second half of the eighteenth century –, or during such an exhibition if one …
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… him to current topics: Johann Caspar Lavater’s Aphorisms on Man (1788), translated by Fuseli, which heralded the publication of Essays of Physiognomy (1789-98), and Gottfried August Bürger’s Leonore (1796), which was part of the fad …
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