Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… Hogarth Illustrated, 2nd edn (London, 1804), p. 21. 5 . Sarah Markham, John Loveday of Caversham 1711-1789: The Life and Tours of an Eighteenth-Century Onlooker (Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984), p. 393. A longstanding suggestion is that this … particularly notable with conversation pieces executed in Italy in the second half of the century, depicting groups of Grand Tourists. Copies could be provided for each of the milordi to display in their homes once back in Britain or Ireland. …
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