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Cabinets of curiosities [ Nature / Sports & Leisure ]
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Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… Historians can rely on the many engraved views of bookshops in advertisement such as Wright’s Circulating Library Catalogue (c. 1755) or in larger volumes such as Rudoph Ackermann, Repository of Arts (1809-29). These visual sources … Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Elliott, J. E., ‘The Cost of Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Auction Sale Catalogues and the Cheap Literature Hypothesis’ ELH (vol. 77, n° 2, 2010), p. 353-384. Raven, James, Small, Helen, and … Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Elliott, J. E., ‘The Cost of Reading in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Auction Sale Catalogues and the Cheap Literature Hypothesis’ ELH (vol. 77, n° 2, 2010), p. 353-384. Raven, James, Small, Helen, and …
Books | Commerce | Reading
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Buckles [ Clothing & Fashion ]
… Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Swann, June, Catalogue of Shoe and other Buckles in Northampton Museum (Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, 1981). In the DIGIT.EN.S … Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). Swann, June, Catalogue of Shoe and other Buckles in Northampton Museum (Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, 1981). … Consumption … …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… Room’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Quarto 646 808 M58 v.1., 1808. Image Detail from the Catalogue of the Most remarkable Collection of Prints ever offered to the public, for Greenwood’s auction sale of 1786’, … secondary market, accelerating and fluidifying the flow of objects. While names of well-known connoisseurs adorned the catalogues of library and collection sales, the items on show often met a wide array of budgets and interests since the … This sociability of connoisseurs who often became auction regulars is still visible in the annotated pages of sales catalogues in which fellow bidders have been memorialized in the margin, forever linked to the lot descriptions and the …
Art | Audience | Collecting | Commerce | Coffeehouses | Exhibitions
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Statutes of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland (1792) [ Practices ]
… the Society, of which he has not copies, to be borrowed out of his custody by any of the members. A PROPER descriptive catalogue of the donations made to the Musaeum shall be published occasionally. Dec. 18. ALL persons proposed as honorary …
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Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768) [ Practices / People ]
… letters, and send summonses, &c.; he shall attend at the exhibition, assist in disposing the performances, make out the catalogues, &c.; he shall also, when the keeper of the Academy is indisposed, take upon himself the care of the Academy …
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Sugar [ Food & Drink ]
Consumption | Domesticity | Femininity | Slave trade | Tea | Tea-table
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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]
… érudition et deviennent parfois des sujets d’étude pour des scientifiques qui viennent les côtoyer. Décrites dans des catalogues, parfois même reproduites sous la forme de gravures, les œuvres d’art, vestiges antiques ou objets de … parcours se poursuivaient à l’étage où se trouvait, entre autres, la bibliothèque. Les visiteurs pouvaient consulter un catalogue manuscrit qui énumérait les objets dans l’ordre topographique, en indiquant pour chacun les lieux où il avait …
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