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Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… peints à Strawberry hill, notamment pour recréer un univers gothique. Objects > Furniture & Interior decoration Keywords Fashion Pattern Domesticity Magazine Gothic Conversation Correspondence France À l'origine de l'expansion du papier peint … la lettre qui faisait suite au ‘Cabinet des modes’, avait modifié son titre pour rendre hommage au magazine anglais ‘Fashionable magazine’, publié à Londres, qui l’avait lui-même cité l’année précédente, en 1785. C’est dire si les modes … Walpole fera un usage considérable des papiers peints à Strawberry hill, notamment pour recréer un univers gothique. … Fashion … Pattern … Domesticity … Magazine … Gothic … Conversation … Correspondence … France … Wallpapers …Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… People > Art and Literature Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Keywords Correspondence Gothic Gardens Fashion Né en 1717 à Londres, Horace Walpole est le troisième fils du célèbre ministre Robert Walpole. Après des études à … un modèle incomparable pour sa demeure de Strawberry Hill, située près de Londres. … Correspondence … Gothic … Gardens … Fashion … Horace Walpole (and the English garden) …Shoes [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… part of the dress ensemble for both men and women, so changing styles can highlight shifts in eighteenth-century fashions. Shoes also affected bodily posture and movement, so related to the activities of elite society. The fashion for high heels gave elite men a commanding posture over their social inferiors, whereas dancing shoes had a … at balls. Footwear therefore helps us to understand the physical aspect of social interactions. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Keywords Shoes Buckles Boots Dress Dance body The shoe is a very good example of a material object that informed …Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… Abstract The betting book is the material expression of the sociable practice of betting, which became fashionable as part of the gambling culture of eighteenth-century Britain. More than a simple book used for recording the … Club College Gentleman The betting book is the material expression of the sociable practice of betting, which became fashionable as part of the gambling culture of eighteenth-century Britain. More than a simple leisure accessory used for … considered as a futile and peculiar ritual. The betting book had various functions as a significant cultural marker of a fashionable social practice and as an object of sociability. The bets recorded in such a specific archival source mirror …Pocket [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… eighteenth century. Eighteenth-century pockets served as containers for various portable objects that acted as props to fashionable sociability and enabled them to navigate social life. Because of their proximity to their owner, pockets were … product of female needlework, could sometimes materialise bonds between female friends and kin. Objects > Clothing & Fashion Keywords Dress Women mobility portable objects keepsakes Friendship When a lady was attacked in London in 1754, … 1754. The list of objects contained in the pocket by the unknown woman illustrates the role of pockets as carriers of fashionable portable accessories that assisted women’s engagement with various sociable practices in the long eighteenth …Pagination
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