Conversation piece [ Art & Luxury ]
… from my book. Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017). The arrival of the conversation piece can be charted effectively through the … accounts of this painting, see Elizabeth Einberg, William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016), p. 53-6, cat. 20. Having started the painting in 1728, he described it in a list of … remain unfinished. – Half payment received’, reproduced in John Ireland, A Supplement to Hogarth Illustrated, 2nd edn (London, 1804), p. 21. 5 . Sarah Markham, John Loveday of Caversham 1711-1789: The Life and Tours of an Eighteenth-Century …
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