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… Gallery, London, NPG 77, 1813. Image Anthony Walker, ‘A view of the noble House and part of the garden of Castle Howard, the seat of the right Hon.ble the earl of Carlisle near New Malton in Yorkshire’, London, 1758, ed. by Robert … entre eux des spécimens, comme le chirurgien et anatomiste John Hunter, qui envoyait des papillons au médecin Edward Jenner : ‘Dans ce moment, je ne sais si je vous ai envoyé les papillons ; s’ils n’ont pas été envoyés, ils le seront … celle installée par Horace Walpole dans sa demeure de Strawberry Hill, située près de Twickenham. 9 Visitant Castle Howard en août 1772, Walpole déclara qu’il n’aimait pas l’architecture de la maison, mais il mentionna néanmoins sa …
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… in a premodern society an ‘Old Luxury’ prevailed, functioning as ‘a prerogative of the privileged classes of rulers, warriors, churchmen and landowners’ 2 who displayed items associated with ‘surplus resources’ and ‘high culture’ to … in a commercial and urban society (de Vries 43). In the course of the century, ‘new’ luxury items (porcelain, metalware, glass, printed cotton) became available to evermore citizens. Luxury goods were no longer only displayed by an … and David Hume, who both link luxury to community and human interaction. Many British readers had obtained initial awareness of the luxury debates through classical Greek and Roman literature. 4 Especially, tales of the rise to power …
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… 1 As the century unfolded, the auctions sales relocated from the Royal Exchange and its networks of wharfs and warehouses to the artistic clusters of Soho and Covent Garden and later on flourished in the West End and Pall Mall, … dinner, we met and went to see sold the Weymouth Successe and Fellowship Hulkes where pleasant to see how backward men are at first to bid; and yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute afterwards who bid the most first’. 3 However chaotic the social gathering, brokers and upholsterers were quick to pick up …
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Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768) [ Practices / People ]
… MILNER NEWTON MICHAEL MOSER GEORGE BARRET WILLIAM HOARE FRANCIS COTES PAUL SANDBY SAMUEL WALE G. EDWARD PENNY JOHAN ZOFFANY JOHN BAKER FRANCESCO BARTOLOZZI PETER TOMS AGOSTINO CARLINI MASON CHAMBERLIN … performances of the students, to advise and instruct them, to endeavour to form their taste, and turn their attention towards that branch of the arts for which they shall seem to have the aptest disposition. These officers shall be approved … unless they appoint a proxy from amongst the visitors for the time being, in which case he shall be entitled to the reward. At every election of visitors four of the old visitors shall be declared non-eligible. 10mo.There shall be a …
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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 … a patron to an artist) with more market-oriented models that distributed both financial and cultural investments and rewards more broadly. This entry will concentrate mainly on literary patronage as the type in which these changes … a patron to an artist) with more market-oriented models that distributed both financial and cultural investments and rewards more broadly. This entry will concentrate mainly on literary patronage as the type in which these changes …
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Joseph Farington (and his diary) [ Art and Literature / Diaries & Letters / Communication ]
… Records of My Life (1832), in discussing the first wife of painter John Opie, who had absconded from Opie with a Major Edwards, who subsequently married her, apologized for her conduct on the grounds that Opie had been so engaged in making … first Mrs Opie had already had two illegitimate children when Opie married her – something of which Opie was equally unaware. The children were raised elsewhere but when the son was arrested in his teens for stealing a watch and incarcerated … of such gossip as (usually) lacking any deterrent effect, in ‘Rethinking Gossip and Scandal‘ in Donald Black (ed.), Toward a General Theory of Social Control, v. 1 (Academic Press, Inc., 1984), p. 271-302, p. 272. The second form of gossip …
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