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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… Hyde and Anne Lafont (eds.), Plumes et pinceaux : discours de femmes sur l’art en Europe (1750-1850). Essais (Paris : Publications de l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2012). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology On Picturesque Beauty, 1792 … Hyde and Anne Lafont (eds.), Plumes et pinceaux : discours de femmes sur l’art en Europe (1750-1850). Essais (Paris : Publications de l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2012). … Aristocracy … Emigration … French Revolution … Portrait …
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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… predecessors to the more formal zoological societies of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded, private and public menageries were populated by exotic animals seen as objects of fascination and wonder and whose aim was to … and New Daily Advertiser ; Middlesex Journal or Chronicle of Liberty, Jackson’s Oxford Journal and many others). The public opinion was soon outraged at the three-penny admission fee illegally required by the Queen’s Guard who refused to … Exhibition ̶ which are some of the most collectable items still on sale today ̶ were also produced functioning to publicise his menagerie as well as to promote businesses. The featured animals on the verso of the tokens – standing …
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Women's travel writing [ Reading & Writing / Mobility ]
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William and Emma Hamilton [ Aristocracy / Travel ]
… for his considerable collections of antique vases and commissioned the ‘baron’ d’Hancarville to coordinate a four-volume publication of his first collection. 3 This is featured in the group portrait that was painted by Joshua Reynolds, … in the volume open at that page, while they drink and recall, perhaps, their various Grand Tour exploits. These publications, as this painting shows, provided further opportunities for sociability. Sir William also shared his passion … William sold his collection of vases to the British Museum, after which he immediately started a second collection, the publication of which was illustrated by the German painter Wilhelm Tischbein. 4 . G. de Soulavie, Œuvres complètes de M. …
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Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… Dashwood rose to infamy, providing tinder for the fertile imagination of the hack writers of Grub Street and thus the public at large. His influence on the club scene of eighteenth-century London extends far beyond the Brotherhood, … (Lord 91). 11 . Bruce Redford, Dilettanti. The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2008), p. 6. 12 . The letter to Horace Mann on April 14th 1743 can be found in the digitized Yale Edition … difficult to ascertain in what direction, if any, political membership went. While Redford makes them out to show ‘a republican political genealogy’ (3), Lord claims they drew their members from all political strata alike (94). In general, …
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Mary Berry [ Art and Literature ]
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Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]
… is entirely devoid of even the slightest whiff of debauchery.ʼ (al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris , 234) Then he described public feasts, such as the one called al-Karnawāl (the Carnival), during which people could masquerade and disguise … and homes. In Paris al-Tahtāwī discovered other places of entertainment where the French could socialise, i.e. the huge public parks, the many cafés and the risturātūrāt (restaurants), where everybody, including lovers and eminent members of …
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Cabinets of curiosities [ Nature / Sports & Leisure ]
… car ils abritent des discussions savantes fondées sur des expériences menées grâce aux spécimens conservés. Le public qui les fréquente va du simple amateur éclairé aux invités les plus érudits. Les cabinets deviennent … de ses visiteurs, au point que certains collectionneurs cèdent leur collection à la ville pour les ouvrir un peu plus au public. Outre la sociabilité savante et la sociabilité d’apparat, qui font qu’un cabinet assoit sa notoriété au moins …
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Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… of Elkanah Watson, including journals of travels in Europe and America, fromto 1842, with his correspondence with public men and reminiscences and incidents of the revolution (New York: Dana and Company, Publishers, 1856), p. 350-351. … mainly a regional destination for visitors, and some of the nineteenth-century park infrastructure is preserved for public use. 14 . For a broad overview, see David Clay Large, The Grand Spas of Central Europe: a History of Intrigue, …
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