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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… the art market (as brokers, appraisers and upholsterers). As commerce evolved from an early modern market based on reputation and personal ties to commerce liaised by middlemen, the auction house connected collectors of varied social … the art market (as brokers, appraisers and upholsterers). As commerce evolved from an early modern market based on reputation and personal ties to commerce liaised by middlemen, the auction house connected collectors of varied social …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768) [ Practices / People ]
… the time of their admission that is to say, painters, sculptors, or architects, men of fair moral characters, of high reputation in their several professions ; at least five-and-twenty years of age ; resident in Great Britain ; and not …
Academies | Art | Architecture
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Gentleman's Magazine Grubstreet Journal (1731) [ Concepts ]
… have distinguish'd themselves in this particular. We used the Ruff and Fardingal while the Spaniards were highest in reputation; and when France, by our assistance, prevail'd over ' em, we very complaisantly pursued the French thro ' many …
Dress | Fashion | Beauty | France
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The Play-bills, 1830 [ Practices ]
… particularly one who has the face to call himself the Theatrical Examiner. This gentleman, not having the fear of our reputation before his eyes, sets out, in his motto, with claiming the privilege of a free speaker. "Let me," says he, … to those insidious decencies of fruit-women, who serious and elderly, dressed in clean linen, and renouncing the evil reputations of their predecessors, charge high for the honour they do you in being virtuous, and will fetch you a glass …
Theatre | Advertisement
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… stages on which rising artists sought to deploy newly acquired social skills in their quest for custom and a fine reputation. Places > Sports & Leisure Places > Institutions Keywords Art Children Commerce Conversation Exhibitions … stages on which rising artists sought to deploy newly acquired social skills in their quest for custom and a fine reputation. … Belsey, Hugh, ‘Some Artists’ Studios in 1785’, Windows on that World. Essays on British Art Presented to …
Art | Children | Commerce | Conversation | Exhibitions | Fashion | Portrait | Women
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Ned Ward on the Kit-Cat Club (1709) [ Practices ]
… whose Cavities were fill'd with fine Eatable, Varieties, fit for Gods or Poets. This procur'd the Cook such a mighty Reputation among his new Rhiming Customers, that they thought it a scandal to the Muses that so Heavenly a Banquet should …
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Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]
… a Bible in English and promoting educational classes in English. 4 Up until the end of the seventeenth century, the reputation of the Highland clans was also one of cattle-thieves and uncivilised groups of people hidden in the most … had been an early attempt to ‘ civilise ‘ them. With the exile of the Stuarts to the continent in 1688, their reputation became one of rebels, Jacobites and anti-union supporters, even though this was true for only a minority. … clubs and societies, schools and roads were financed to link these remote regions to ‘civilisation'. The clans had the reputation of following different social rules. When Lowland societies and ladies in drawing-rooms debated on husbandry …
Clans | Clubs | Enlightenment | Highlands | Scotland | Tradition
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Of Natural Laws (1651) [ Concepts ]
… transferreth, in hope to gain thereby friendship, or service from another, or from his friends; or in hope to gain the reputation of Charity, or Magnanimity; or to deliver his mind from the pain of compassion; or in hope of reward in …
Nature | Social Contract | Law | Death
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The London Spy (1703) [ Places ]
… Scar cross his Forehead, a twisted Wig, and lac’d Hat on; the Company call’d him Captain ; he’s a Man of considerable Reputation amongst Birds of the same Feather, who I have heard say thus much in his Praise, that he is as Resolute a … Master of, and some give Credit to his Ridiculous Romances. Mind that Spark who is just come in, Four Years since his Reputation was but slender; and in so little a time he has had Three Wives, and all good Fortunes to him, and now is …
Taverns | Dining
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