Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… of luxury. The term ‘exotic’ was associated with unfamiliar 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 … of a far away country 1 - was associated with unfamiliar flora and fauna as well as with rare objects exhibited in such places of sociability as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and …
Animals | Australia | Chinoiserie | Collecting | Commerce | Exoticism | Menageries | North America
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