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‘Nicolas-Edme Rétif’, Wikimedia Commons, 1785.

Nicolas-Edme Rétif, 1785

Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711.

Sir Richard Steele, 1711

John Stuart, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D14964, 1710.

Sir Richard Steele, 1710

Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1684

Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, 1684

Jean Huber, 'Un dîner de philosophes', Voltaire Fondation, 1772.

Un dîner de philosophes, 1772

Thomas Cook, Daniel Dodd, ‘A Father Reading to His Family by Candlelight’, British Museum, 1875,0109.193, 1783.

A Father Reading to His Family by Candlelight, 1783

Joseph Constantine Stadler, 'Mr Richardson ... reading to his Friends', © National Portrait gallery, NPG D5810, 1804.

Mr Richardson ... reading to his Friends, 1804

Traveltopia, ‘Footprint in the Sand’, FreeImagesLive.

Footprint in the Sand, undated

Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, ‘The Exhibition Room at Somerset House’, Wikimedia Commons, 1808.

The Exhibition Room at Somerset House, 1808

Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī. Scanned image from a book entitled Kitāb manāhij al-albāb al-Miṣrīyah fī mabāhij al-ādāb al-ʻaṣrīyah, 2nd edition, published in Egypt in 1912, Wikimedia Commons, 1912.

Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī, 1912

Thomas Bowles, ‘The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea near (now in) London’, Wikimedia Commons, 1754

The Rotunda at Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea, 1754

Hogarth, William, ‘The Tavern Scene’, 1732-1735, Sir John Soane’s Museum, SM P42. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Hogarth_-_A_Rake%27s_Progress_-_Tavern_Scene.jpg

The Tavern Scene, 1732-1735

The Subscribers of the City Dancing Assembly’, United States Gazette (Philadelphia), Dec. 12, 1798, America’s Historical Newspapers database.

The Subscribers of the City Dancing Assembly, 1798

‘Young Martha and George Washington’, Library of Congress, Popular and applied graphic art prints, PAGA 7, no. 3431, 1904.

Young Martha and George Washington, 1904

‘Philadelphia Assembly tickets’, Philadelphia Dancing Assembly records, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Am.3075 folio, 1772 and 1785.

Philadelphia Assembly tickets, 1772 and 1785

E. W. Clay, ‘Balancez. City Assembly’, Lessons in Dancing, Exemplified by Sketches from Real Life in the City of Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, A 828 L.

Balancez. City Assembly, Lessons in Dancing, undated

‘The Tea-Table’, © The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), 369584001, c. 1720.

The Tea-Table, c. 1720

‘Toastmaster's glass containing a small silver coin’, Burrell Collection: English Table Glass [including Waterford], © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection, circa 1725.

Toastmaster's glass containing a small silver coin, circa 1725

James Gillray, 'A broad hint of not meaning to dance', © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D12835, 1804.

A broad hint of not meaning to dance, 1804

Richard Bentley, ‘Perspective of the hall & staircase at Strawberry Hill’, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, 1754.

Perspective of the hall & staircase at Strawberry Hill, 1754

Magasin des modes nouvelles, françaises et anglaises, décrites d'une manière claire & précise, & représentées par des planches en taille-douce, enluminées, paru le 10 mai 1788.

Magasin des modes nouvelles, françaises et anglaises, 1788

Magasin des modes nouvelles, françaises et anglaises, décrites d'une manière claire & précise, & représentées par des planches en taille-douce, enluminées, paru le 10 mars 1787

Magasin des modes nouvelles, françaises et anglaises, 1787

‘Panel of red flock wallpaper’, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.3594-1922, ca. 1735.

Panel of red flock wallpaper, ca. 1735

‘Panel of Chinese wallpaper, with a green background on which is painted a purple pot in the foreground’, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.3882-1915, 1775-1825.

Panel of Chinese wallpaper, 1775-1825

‘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.

‘Print Room’ wallpaper, hung in Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, c. 1760

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, 'Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante', Wikimedia Commons, Walker Art Gallery, LL 3527, 1790.

Portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante, 1790

Allen, David, ‘Sir William and the first Lady Hamilton in their villa in Naples’, © Compton Verney, CVCSC : 0357.B, 1770.

Sir William and the first Lady Hamilton in their Villa in Naples, 1770

George Romney, 'Emma Hart as Circe', Tate Britain, N05591, 1782.

Emma Hart as Circe, 1782