Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Commons, 17029, 1810. Image George Stubbs, ‘Two Leopards’, Wikimedia Commons, 1776. Image Philip Mercier, ‘Girl with a Tray’, The State Hermitage Museum, ГЭ-10438, 1750. Image George Stubbs, ‘The Kongouro from New Holland’, Wikimedia … social interactions characterised by the refinement of manners and the love 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, …
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