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Sir Gregory Gigg; or, the city beau (c. 1780) [ Objects / Practices ]
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Wallpapers [ Furniture & Interior decoration ]
… 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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Horace Walpole (and the English garden) [ Art and Literature / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… le duc de Broglie à ses amis. Jean-Jacques Rousseau inspirait à ses lecteurs le sens pittoresque de la nature et dès le printemps, Paris désertait ses salons. Comme l’évoque Adolphe de Lescure, ‘ la capitale élégante fait l’école …
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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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Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… the Gout [1720] (London: A. Strahan, 1753), p. 62. 15 . John Wood, A Description of Bath [1742] (Bath: Kingsmead Reprints, 1969), p. 259-268. 16 . George Cheyne, The English Malady: or a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds … Lady in Bath, 1794-1807’, p. 101 (Shropshire Record Office, Shrewsbury: Corbett of Longnor Papers). Thomas Rowlandson’s prints The Comforts of Bath (1798) have provided a dark and humorous view of Bath’s social life that contrasts with …
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