Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… Image Edward Matthew Ward, ‘Doctor Johnson in the Ante-Room of the Lord Chesterfield Waiting for an Audience’, 1748, Tate, N00430. Abstract In the absence of fully developed markets, patronage … sum of 1,500 guineas for this, he still attempted to enlist aristocratic patronage, as was customary. Famously, Lord Chesterfield, to whom he addressed his ‘Proposal’ for the dictionary, kept him waiting for an audience and gave him …
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