Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… Charles Pugin, 'Pantheon masquerade', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D14263, 1 March 1809. Image Thomas Rowlandson, 'Dressing for a Masquerade', Met Museum, 59.533.2047, April 1, 1790. Image William Hogarth, 'Masquerades and Operas', Met … and the carnivalesque topsy-turvydom would have been mostly characterised by a downward movement (the higher strata dressing up as the lower strata). The divide separating the selective balls from the more democratised ones is visible in … in Castle 96), while the Gentleman’s Magazine (January, 1777) gives a brief account of a masked assembly of 'the hairdressing class', during which, we are informed, the participants were crashed by the falling floor. 2 . Henry Fielding, …
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