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… society and groups of much broader appeal, often with a philanthropic bent’. 3 3 . Joan Coutu, Then and Now: Collecting Classicism in Eighteenth-Century England (Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015), p. 11. Les pratiques sociales … dans des bibliothèques, des cabinets et des galeries richement décorées : 4 . Jane Feiffer, ‘Restoration and Display of Classical Sculpture in English Country Houses, A Case of Dependence’, in Janet Burnett Grossman, Jerry Podany and Marion … p. 97. ‘Hardly a country house was now without its library, leather-bound volumes of the English, Latin and Italian classics, splendidly illustrated tomes of history and travel and books of engravings. Then, there was the host’s …
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