… the merchants’ efforts to disseminate these artefacts were met by the amateurs’ discursive strategies to categorize and classify them. 6 Rapidly, urban artistic clusters developed dedicated rooms for these sales, such as Christopher Cock’s …
… the imagination of the vulgar’ – a man of an earlier generation, he disapproves of the presence of different social classes including ‘the vulgar’, which a feature of pleasure gardens. On the contrary, Lydia Melford ( 31 May) admires …
Patronage
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… them from the necessity of relying on a single patron. This was further helped by a growing interest within the middle class in musical accomplishments (itself driven by fashions of sociability), which led to a steadily rising demand for …
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Menageries
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… woman with a child in her arms and the 11-year-old boy who were killed by Wallace and the tiger before their capture was classified as accidental death. A most horrific anecdote of animal abuse was committed against Chunee, a 7-ton elephant …