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Samuel Johnson [ Art and Literature ]
… Thompson published by Owen Bailey, stipple and line engraving, 'A literary party at Sir Joshua Reynolds's', © National Portrait Gallery. NPG D14518, 1851. Abstract Johnson was one of the foremost and most controversial literary men of his …
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Drury Lane [ Sports & Leisure / Cities ]
… good or an expression of patriotic fervour. 19 . J. Douglas Canfield observes, ‘Tamerlane is a thinly veiled, idealized portrait of William III and Bajazet a thinly veiled, demonized portrait of Louis XIV’ and the play was acted on the anniversary of William III’s birth (November 4) and his arrival in …
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… publiques : l’invention de la célébrité 1750-1850 (Paris : Fayard, 2014), p. 367-368. 28 . The fashionable character of portraits is linked with the rise of celebrity. See Lilti, op.cit., p. 21-94. 29 . See Annick Cossic-Péricarpin & Hélène …
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