Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… an unmodulated row of heads across the back of the scene. Ten years later, the finished work was described by John Loveday as a ‘Conversation-piece of this family and the neighbourhood’. 5 This label neatly underscores the key … reproduced in John Ireland, A Supplement to Hogarth Illustrated, 2nd edn (London, 1804), p. 21. 5 . Sarah Markham, John Loveday of Caversham 1711-1789: The Life and Tours of an Eighteenth-Century Onlooker (Wilton: Michael Russell, 1984), p. …
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