Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… and power to the widespread and sociable use of commodities like porcelain and silk. Such displays of tasteful and fashionable objects enhanced individual status, in domestic settings and in public spaces. McKendrick even claims a … only for the acquisition of art but also for musing about it together. 10 This development went hand in hand with the fashion, or craze, for engravings. 11 If around 1700, only select connoisseurs like the Duke of Devonshire held … who are living above their station: ‘I found his wife and three daughters were dressed out in the most genteel and fashionable manner, and at a considerable expence [...] She was determined that none of the other shopkeepers [sic] wives …
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