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high on the hog: boastful splendiferous types
…Of what there is no doubt is that this life was wasteful, extravagant, ostentatious- an appalling contrast, as Dr. Samuel Johnson noted, to the human wretchedness of rural or urban slums; yet it was saved both by its humanity and … Continue reading
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Tagged David Garrick, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Earl of Egremont, George Macaulay Trevelyan, George Stubbs, Henry Fielding, James Boswell, Johann Zoffany, John Berger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Madame Pickwick, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth
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the good ole’ days: conspicuous they were
The noble houses of eighteenth century England and the regal lifestyles that accompanied them. Life was good if you had money and bling was king… As with paintings, so it was with all that was rare, exotic, and costly: nobleman … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Benjamin West, David Garrick, Dr. Pepusch, George Macaulay Trevelyan, James Brydges Duke of Chandos, Johann Zoffany, Lord Egremont of Petworth, Lord Stavordale, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pompeo Batoni, Pompeo Batoni paintings, Princely Duke of Chandos, Sir Peter Beckford, Sir Robert Walpole
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blissful idleness
Perhaps the greatest of all social revolutions, and one of enormous economic consequences not that profoundly explored, began in the eighteenth-century,when Europe grew not only rich enough to support a large class of non-workers, but also began to organize the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Van Dyck, david allan paintings, David Brooks, George Stubbs, james seymour, jane jacobs, Johann Zoffany, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, William Hogarth, william inglis
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conversation pieces
The collage work of Peter Blake and Jann Haworth remains one of the most iconic works of design in pop culture. But, these types of original work are not created in a vaccum and there was an English tradition of … Continue reading
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Tagged Jann Haworth, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johann Zoffany, Paul McCartney, Peter Blake, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Robert Fraser, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sir james Robert Fraser, Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir peter blake, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, William Powell Frith
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DISTURBING THE RHYTHM OF COMEDY
Epic deception. And arriving at the altar with a faint pulse.That was the view of Sarah Fielding, author and sister of Henry Fielding. The epic notion of the “great end” enters the comic novel as the marriage that sanctifies the culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pettit, Alexander Pope, Austin Dobson, C.J. Rawson, Claude Rawson, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Delavier Manley, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Ernest Hemingway, G.M. Godden, Godden, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johann Zoffany, John Trusler, Lady Mary Chudleigh, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Matthew Wickham, Nancy Armstrong, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Ros Ballaster, Sally Feldman, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Thomas Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Hazlitt, William Hogarth, Zoffany
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