... magnificence were what we loosely call the “Crown Jewels.” These were meant for use. Their charisma rubbed off onto their wearers. Sir John Fortescue, the fifteenth-century English jurist, said that a king had a spe- cial need for “rich stones” and “other jewels and ornaments...

... of finishing his portrait of Queen Charlotte, when Papendiek had gone to “sit for the jewels . . . and [one day] finding ourselves disappointed of them, [that] Lawrence proposed taking a sketch of me” ( Memoirs , 197). Lawrence's sketch of Papendiek with her young son is thus drawn concurrently with his...

... “Discreet Jewels: Victorian Dia- mond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value.” By this time, we are ready for the change of tone and perspective that their nineteenth-­century subjects bring. Festa’s wonderfully written contribution traces the it-­narrative’s transformation into a genre...

... Attorney 2 Bookseller 3 Goldsmith 2 Butcher 4 Jeweler 2 Cabinet Maker 10 Merchant 2 Clerk 1 Silversmith 4 Clock/Watchmaker 11 Surgeon...

... of the heavens; beast fables critique these hierar- chies from the perspective of the animal realm. “Libertine Orientalism,” chap- ter 4, examines Abbé Prévost’s Story of a Modern Greek Woman (1740), Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon’s The Sofa (1742), and Denis Diderot’s Indiscreet Jewels (1748), three...

... jeweler William Gray, as the royal family had prior dealings with his father, the jeweler Thomas Gray, who died in 1788. According to her biographer, W. C. Oulton, in Authentic and Impartial Memoirs of Her late Majesty, Charlotte, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (London: J. Robins, 1819), The royal...

... is not to be assimilated in a master template of the human: the intransigent singularities that elude or defy sentimental representation” (241). The first chapter, “The Distinction of Sentimental Feeling,” is useful, clear, important to the argument, but not quite the jewel in the crown. It looks first...

... coiffeur a la fançaise, hoopskirts, and the jewel-­box coach lined with upholstery embroidered by the celebrated craftsman Trumeau, but also skillfully examines the tensions that vexed the young dauphine at the French court. The alliance with Austria provoked a vicious backlash within the French...

..., “arts & customs of the world,” paintings of nature, jewels, and coins, this poem encapsulates Sloane’s seventeenth-­century rep- utation as a beneficent dispenser of knowledge, as well as of physic (l. 45). II. Sloane the Charlatan Virtuoso, 1700 – ​25 However, the problem for many social...

... to make anti-Semitism the key theme of Defoe’s novel, relating every element in Roxana’s rise and fall to the unpleasant caricature of “the Jew,” who in one episode recognizes Roxana’s jewels and threatens to expose her. So Roxana practices “Jewish” usury because she keeps track of her finances...

... with Diamonds of great Value. The Bridegroom, who is expecting his Equipage from Spain, could make no other Return but to present her with a Jewel he received at Madrid from the King of Spain.”28 In September the cardinals give Cardinal Gualtieri, protector of Eng- land, “Compliments and Congratulation...

... him to secrecy. Darwin soon apologized, “I have disobeyed you, 20   Eighteenth-Century Life and shewn your Vase to 2 or 3, but they were philosophers, not cogniscenti [sic]. How can I possess a jewel, and not communicate the pleasure to a few Derby Philosophes?” (Letters of Erasmus Darwin...

... drawn after a classical gem by Lavinia Bingham and engraved by Bartolozzi (figure 5). The engraving s classical hymeneal iconography materializes Jones s play on naturalia and artificialia in the poem, where he compares his writing with the jeweler s craft: First, I with living gems enchase...

... of Sales, If Sold. Money received, and Property converted into Money. Value of Property not converted into Money. Cash in the House} Cash at Bankers } 147.0.5½ Furniture, Plate, Linen, China, Pictures, Wearing Apparel, Jewels, and Ornaments Do bequeathed to Miss Smith 4 301.19.6 9.17.0...

... was not appointed pocket-­book maker to the Prince of Wales, a title that John Godwin, a jeweler and pocket-­book maker, used in his business advertise- Illustrated Pocket Diaries and the Commodification of Culture     6 9 Figure 6d. Ornate...

... Upton for rescuing Spenser from neglect and misunderstanding. In his lengthy ac- counts of Upton and Warton, for example, Jewel Wurtsbaugh records simi- larities but no differences, and René Wellek brings the pair together in his discussion of how scholars began to uncover the sources of The Faerie...

... in Olivia’s less-­than-­safe keeping, Manly struggles throughout the play to be the plain dealer that he says he is. The conspicuous absence of his cabinet, in which he places his cash and jewels, corresponds to the Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 37, Number 2, Spring...

.... The “alcaid” was the Islamic military governor of the fortified city of Tetouan, twenty-five miles southeast of Tangier. 14. Thomas Blood (1617/18 – 80), adventurer and spy, attempted to kidnap the Duke of Ormond (1670), steal the Crown Jewels (1671), and was involved in both the Popish and Meal...

... lost nothing. What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human heart, reciprocations of kindness and love, and all the nameless sympathies of our nature,—these are the only objects worth being attached to. What are rank and station...

... theatrical acquisition, the actress Dorothy Jordan, as a rare jewel that made his eyes sparkle, the manager easily ignored any distinc- tion between physical goods and the complex theatrical commodity the actress offered.32 The concept of labor as a “property contained within one’s person...