3. ‘Mode and Manner of the Time’

Retford, Kate

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The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The idea of ‘conversation’ as sociable exchange is the one most familiar today, but in this chapter I will turn to those longer standing definitions, rooted in the Latin conversatio, outlined in my introduction...

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Kate Retford

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Related print edition pages: pp.93-125

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.4

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23270

Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810Allan, David, 1744-1796Portrait painting, British--18th centuryEngland--Social life and customs--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryInterior decoration--England--18th centuryReynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723–1792

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