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Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… objects and settings could be represented in detail, facilitating the portrayal of tea parties, assemblies and card games. Objects > Art & Luxury Keywords Conversation Painting Portrait Tea-table As the practices, objects and sites of … objects and settings could be represented in detail, facilitating the portrayal of tea parties, assemblies and card games. … de Bolla, Peter, The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain …
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Periodicals [ Print culture ]
… upon. By the diversity of its content, it creates the subjects of discussions and by their brevity, it prevents boredom. Games or puzzles are also part of the content that participate in practices of sociability. Periodicals include reviews …
Conversation | Correspondence | News | Periodicals | Politics | Women
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Elizabeth (Robinson) Montagu [ Art and Literature ]
… to their various homes, mostly in London but also in the country, for gatherings which did not involve the usual card games but were based on literary (not political) conversation. Bluestocking sociability was based on the advance of …
Assemblies | Bluestockings | Conversation | Correspondence | Friendship | Women
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On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… that was the slave of lust; Arts once esteem'd may be with shame dismiss'd; Charity may relax the miser's fist; The gamester may have cast his cards away, Forgot to curse, and only kneel to pray. It has indeed been told me (with what …
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