Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… Image John James Baker, 'The Whig Junto', Tate, T15046, 1710. Image William Hogarth, The Kit Kat Club, Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Jacob Tonson I’, © National Portrait … Gallery, London, NPG 3230, 1717. Image John Faber Jr, after Hubert-François Gravelot, ‘Frontispiece to the Kit-cat Club mezzotints’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D33090, 1735. Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Thomas … Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3215, 1721. Abstract The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) was one of the earliest and most influential London gentlemen’s dining clubs. It kickstarted the …
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