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… Children Disposing of their Deceased Mother, 1819. Scanned from Baker, Kenneth, George IV: A Life in Caricature. London: Thames & Hudson, 2005, p. 114. Abstract The dismantling of collections attracted a growing audience to the … and Mascha Hansen (eds.), British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), p. 1–12. Urban sociability to settle the price of cultural goods Witnessing a Custom house sale of ships ‘by inch of candle’ 2 in 1662 London, Samuel Pepys recorded the rumpus caused by the novel method of auction: ‘After dinner, we met and went to see …
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