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… Image ‘Imitation ‘Print Room’ wallpaper, hung in Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, , England, colour woodblock print on paper’, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum no. E.747.1914., about 1760. Image ‘Panel of Chinese … mutuellement via les ‘faiseurs de tendance’ de l’époque et les premiers magazines de mode anglomane. L’exemple de la ‘print room’ illustre une pratique de sociabilité qui, du voyage jusqu’au retour au domicile, permettait la …
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
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Auction houses [ Trade ]
… 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’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale … as explained by the bookseller and auctioneer Edward Millington in 1689: ‘I have of late made several Sales of Prints, Paintings &c. upon different and more justifiable methods than were before practiced in the City of London, [...] … which raised the profile of collectible goods and collectors alike. 5 . Edward Millington, A Collection of Curious Prints, Paintings, and Limnings, by the Best Masters (London, 1689), folio 1. 6 . Lawrence E. Klein, 'Coffeehouse …
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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… delivered. Their ‘reward’, besides obtaining the book, was the inclusion of their names in a list of subscribers printed at the front of the volume. Due to the public nature of the list and the mutually supportive role of social association (both subscribers and authors could gain cultural capital), one might even call this a form of print sociability. In any case, it was hardly possible to become a patron at a cheaper rate. The practice of publishing … in what was, as Alvin Kernan describes it, ‘the Magna Carta of the modern author’. 8 Johnson writes: 8 . Alvin Kernan, Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), p. 105. Is not a patron …
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Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… and urban society (de Vries 43). In the course of the century, ‘new’ luxury items (porcelain, metalware, glass, printed cotton) became available to evermore citizens. Luxury goods were no longer only displayed by an elite but also by … and John R. Page, The Development of the Art Market in England (London: Routledge, 2016), p. 54. 11 . Stana Nenadic, ‘Print Collecting and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’, History (vol. 82, no. 266, April 1997) p. 203-207. …
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Royal Academy Instrument of Foundation (1768) [ Practices / People ]
… There shall be a Library of Books of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and all the Sciences relating thereto ; also prints of bas-reliefs, vases, trophies, ornaments, dresses, ancient and modern customs and ceremonies, instruments of war …
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Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859’ Journal of British Studies (vol. 45, No. 4, October 2006), p. 718-743. Prints like the one by Johann Sebastian Muller depict some of the most frequent types of social interactions between the …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
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