Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Liotard, ‘Lady Montagu in Turkish dress’, Wikimedia Commons, 1756. Image William Henry Brooke, ‘The anti-royal menagerie’, Wikimedia Commons, 1812. Image George Stubbs, ‘Lion and Lioness’, Museum of Fine Arts, M. Theresa B Hopkins … flora and fauna as well as with rare objects exhibited in places of sociability such as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that North America, the … and turquerie . Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Animals Australia Chinoiserie Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries North America During the long eighteenth century, a wave of exotic mania swept England so fully that the …
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