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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 January 2023
... of the pictures sheds light on King Yeongjo's reaction to the crisis that threatened his sovereignty. To commend the loyalty of his senior officers and publicly assert his legitimacy as Korea's ruler when the hostilities ended, Yeongjo ordered the creation of an official Bureau for Recording Meritorious Deeds...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (1): 76–95.
Published: 01 January 2017
... for avoiding print. For a poet who avoided print so assiduously, every erroneous attribution is significant; these poems offer a picture of who she was to her contemporaries, and reveal the risks that appearing in print represented to women. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Lady Mary...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 97–118.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Ireland’s problems of poverty and unemployment, including a scheme for giving badges to Dublin’s deserving poor while setting the able-bodied to work, under threat of corporeal punishment. Swift supported this scheme in the 1720s and 1730s, and this essay gives us a fuller picture of Swift at the end of his...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2013
... into Burney’s conceptions of and ruminations on authorial celebrity in old age. The narration of the Memoirs provides a compelling picture of what an aged woman author was up against in fashioning a persona in her text. Examining the complicated reception of the Memoirs also advances our discussion of Burney’s...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Bradford Mudge Sir Joshua's Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra is a celebrated picture, one often taken as a representative of what are referred to as Reynolds's “courtesan portraits,” portraits of women—actresses, mistresses, models, prostitutes—who, in a variety of ways and with varying degrees...
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in “Everlasting Memorials”: Urban Improvement and the Shadow of Ruin in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
> Eighteenth-Century Life
Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1: Giovanni Battista Piranesi after Robert Mylne, A View of Part of the Intended Bridge at Blackfriars London in August MDCCLXIIII (1766), London Metropolitan Archives, City of London. COLLAGE: the London Picture Archive, ref 1264.
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 136–146.
Published: 01 January 2002
..., and the “posture” mezzotints mostly pub-
lished by Carington Bowles between 1777 and 1781.1
Thomas Bradford, a print and picture dealer with premises in Fleet
Street, acquired a number of pictures by Collet, launching a series of more
than a dozen with a set entitled...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 88–96.
Published: 01 January 2023
...,” too. The space saved by eliminating the abstracts could have been used to enlarge the index to include subjects as well as names, and it would have been helpful to track how extensive was the influence of, say, The Analysis of Beauty or a particular set of pictures like Marriage A-la-Mode. One...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 106–113.
Published: 01 April 2010
... picture, Experiment on a Bird in
the Air Pump, which had been exhibited in London in 1768, but had not found a
buyer. The Royal Academy was established in London towards the end of 1768,
but had not included Wright of Derby (who had already departed for Liver-
pool) among its founding members...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 96–102.
Published: 01 April 2007
...: The Getty Research Institute, 2006). Pp. 256. 70 ills. $49.95 paper.
ISBN 0-89236-743-1
Mary Tavener Holmes has written an engaging introduction to Nicolas Lan-
cret’s early picture Dance before a Fountain (ca. 1723), which came to the J.
Paul Getty Museum in 2001...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 93–101.
Published: 01 January 2014
...
Contemporary Viewers Have Brought into the Rooms with Them?
This is the part of the site that most clearly ties in with Austen, as Barchas
and her research assistants selectively incorporated information into the
text that accompanies the pictures. Each description begins with general
background about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of his innovative inclusion
of contemporary actors’ pictures, which catered to the emergent culture of
theatrical celebrity. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, it became
possible for actors to become icons adulated by the masses instead of being
merely wage-earning entertainers...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 104–109.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of Venus and Vulcan. (Zoffany also graphi-
cally separates Venus from her Vulcan.) It is most likely, however, that the
addition of the flageolet is an example of Zoffany’s playful control as artist,
stamped on the picture in the signature of his dog, Roma, bottom center,
with eyes fixed...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 88–93.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Pamela Cheek Harriet Guest. Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges, and the Return to the Pacific (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. xx + 249. 32 b/w + 50 color ills. $99 Kay Dian Kriz. Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (1): 62–87.
Published: 01 January 2000
... international specula-
tive crisis in the history of financial capitalism, was, in the view of P. G. M.
Dickson, “the most dramatic financial storm” of the eighteenth century.1
Historical accounts of this upheaval have painted a sometimes paradoxi-
cal picture. From the long-term perspective of the economic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 136–157.
Published: 01 April 2020
... such as broadsheets suggest to us about their reading culture and our concepts of literacy? The desire to have pictures as well as text in ephemeral and book publications in the mid- and late- seventeenth century is frequently over- looked in our recent studies of visual media. The cultural critic Martin Jay declared...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 84–101.
Published: 01 January 2018
...,
and the cleaners, who had misread the states of the engraving, removed Hog-
arth’s last thoughts, his last revisions. Einberg writes blandly that Hogarth’s
final “alterations survived until cleaning and restoration in 1970, . . . when the
picture was taken back to its earlier state” (301). I would have said...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 119–135.
Published: 01 January 2002
... gender
roles; in others, women in ordinary female garb engage in male activities.
Collet’s pictures suggest that in the politically and socially turbulent late
1760s and 1770s some English women and men experimented with con-
ventions of dress and behavior...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 84–107.
Published: 01 January 2016
... empower women writers.
Finch frequently considers the relationship between poetry and visual
art. In “Verses written under the King of Sweden’s Picture,” for exam-
ple, she demonstrates that her poetic vision is superior to the painter’s by
looking beyond the picture’s frame. Though the poem...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 135–157.
Published: 01 September 2021
... at Castletown,” Castletown Decorative Arts (Trim: Office of Public Works, 2011), 67–77; Francis Russell, “Microcosm of Eighteenth-Century Taste: The Engravings Room at Woodhall Park,” Country Life 162:4188 (6 October 1977): 924–26; and Esther Chadwick, “Patterned with Paper Pictures: The Print Room...
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