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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… social interaction fostered the encounter between members of the nobility and ordinary Georgians who visited menageries with a desire to marvel at wild animals imported from Africa, the Americas, Asia and later from Australia. The exhibition … polite and satirical conversations about the trade, the cultural meaning and the social interactions of exotic animals with Londoners during the long eighteenth century. The Duke of Marlborough, Sir Hans Sloane, the Duchess of Portland, the … educational but rather of pleasurable interaction for, sometimes, both humans and animals. The close bodily engagement with exotic animals is exemplified by Queen Charlotte’s royal menagerie which was first home to pheasants and other …
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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]
… the Society of Dilettanti, would continue but they would be joined by society and groups of much broader appeal, often with a philanthropic bent’. 3 3 . Joan Coutu, Then and Now: Collecting Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England … Restoration of Ancient Stone Sculptures (Los Angeles: Getty Publication, 2003), p. 97. ‘Hardly a country house was now without its library, leather-bound volumes of the English, Latin and Italian classics, splendidly illustrated tomes of … des ducs du Devonshire, ardents collectionneurs depuis plusieurs générations : 8 . Voir Harry Mount, ‘The Monkey with the Magnifying Glass: Constructions of the Connoisseur in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Oxford Art Journal (vol. 29, …
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