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Inns [ Residences & Lodgings ]
… by Rowlandson, Thomas, 1787, Yale Digital Collections, OID 11791520. Image William Hogarth, ‘A coach stopping in the courtyard of John Shaw’s “Ram Inn” in Cirencester’, Welcome Collection, 39246i, 1790s. Abstract The late seventeenth and … Horses were changed at inns and goods were unloaded, while travellers boarded or left the coaches. Larger inns often had courtyards with galleries, from which travellers could access their rooms. They could rent a room to sleep in, but beds … inn yard and the galleries, including staircases, looked like. Image Legend William Hogarth, ‘A coach stopping in the courtyard of John Shaw’s “Ram Inn” in Cirencester’, Welcome Collection, 39246i, 1790s. It also shows the inn as a fairly …
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The Connoisseur 82 (1755) [ Practices ]
… for the paltry satisfaction of improving your fortune. If you behave with honour and prudence, you will be regarded and courted by all parties; but if otherwise, you will certainly be despised by all. Perhaps indeed, if you should hereafter …
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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]
… century the baluster stem was used for small glasses as well as for large ceremonial goblets for communal drinking at court. 3 . Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. …
Alcohol | Drinking | Ritual | Tableware | Toasting
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