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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
... (1792) with his account of the famous Portland Vase as reproduced by Josiah Wedgwood. According to Darwin, the vase represents the Eleusinian Mysteries, an ancient fertility ritual where the god Eros presides. Darwin’s interest in this tradition parallels the contemporary antiquarian movement...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 23–56.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Thora Brylowe Copyright 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 R
Two Kinds of Collections:
Sir William Hamilton’s Vases,
Real and Represented
Thora Brylowe
Carnegie Mellon...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 44–75.
Published: 01 September 2005
... naturelle; ouvrage de lacqs, habillemens indiens & chinois, armes
anciennes, tant des pays étrangers que de France. . . . &c.” In the largest of
the rooms, the objects were stored in Chinese lacquerwork cabinets, above
and below which were grouped arrangements of crystal vases, porcelain
containers...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 147–169.
Published: 01 April 2001
... by pilas-
tered bookcases, all richly embellished with painted decorations in the
Italian grotesque style, inset pictures, and niches. These last were eventu-
ally to display antique painted vases in the manner of Roman tomb re-
cesses with cinerary urns...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 36–40.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., or vedute), and
theoretician. Wilton-Ely offers an overview of drawings for chimneypieces,
suites of furniture, and the pastiche vases that combined antiquities with new
parts that Piranesi created. This essay highlights the diffuse nature of Pirane-
si’s talents as a designer.
Two essays focus...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 116–134.
Published: 01 September 2021
... centerpiece consisting of some sixty-three figures and vases, all in white, on a 4.3 meter-long, mirrored, porcelain plateau. The invoice further itemizes the figures: one central group, four side groups, four smaller side groups, eighteen single figures, eighteen small single figures, and eighteen small...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 136–165.
Published: 01 January 2004
... such
as Bartolomeo Cavaceppi and the ingenuity of Piranesi as a designer of fabri-
cated objects, such as monumental vases and candelabra. Here we have to con-
front a cultural attitude that, since the Renaissance, continued to prefer the
concept and aesthetic idea behind a complete work of art over and above...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 121–127.
Published: 01 January 2014
... on the artifacts themselves, see Thora Brylowe,
“Two Kinds of Collections: Sir William Hamilton’s Vases, Real and Represented,”
Eighteenth-Century Life 32.1 (2008): 23 – 56.
M ...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (2): 1–16.
Published: 01 April 2020
... literacy to share in cultural fashions and current events. Notes 1. An example of an embroidered settee seat cover featuring Kent s designs is held by London s Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A, T.473 1970. A Dewsbury vase in the British Museum is embellished with an illustration of Thomson s Damon...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 63–80.
Published: 01 January 2023
... folksy whimsicality seems at odds with the formality in the portrait room, though just such a vase might well have been seen by one of the sitters, or even owned by one of them. “The size of the jar,” which is pretty large, though not as impressive as the moon jar, “and ample use of cobalt suggest...
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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
.... The poem displays the cos-
metics more vividly than its heroine, in spite of her preoccupation with
self-display. As in The Art of Beauty, the items that litter Belinda’s dressing-
table connote her beauty: “Each Silver Vase,” the “glitt’ring Spoil...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 23–44.
Published: 01 April 2002
... celebrates the spoils of conquest: Iarbas, a neighboring king,
attempts to woo Dido away from Aeneas with a “train of Moors . . . bring-
ing presents,” which include “An ostrich led by a young slave, two soldiers,
gold vases carried by slaves . . . a camel led by a slave...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (3): 139–163.
Published: 01 September 2002
... classes of the Empire.
The first baroque interior was created in the so-called Fruit Room of
the Topkapi Palace, which was built for Sultan Ahmed III in 1705. Various
flowers in vases and fruits in baskets are painted in false niches on wood-
paneled walls...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2007
... Grèce (1785) and Richard Gough’s A Com-
parative View of the Antient Monuments of India (1785). The former augments
a work from which Blake copied a sketch of The Apotheosis of Bacchus and
A Bacchic Mystery off Greek vases, most likely when he was a student at the
Royal Academy.17 The fi ne line...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 April 2015
... and Derbyshire
porcelain vases and figures, and Fraser’s Orrery—“an assemblage of such
ingenuity, utility and beauty as is not to be seen collected together in any
other apartment, I believe, of the whole world” (Embassy, 96).
Macartney’s other main experience is his appreciation of the wonders...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 70–98.
Published: 01 September 2003
... fixtures as balustrades, foun-
tains, statues, canals straight as arrows, and vases and sculptures cluttering
up balconies. Rarely cultivated, that hunting ground seems to him “at once
more grand and more natural” (p. 24). Then, Walpole finds an embryonic
version of the ferme ornée in Milton’s...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (2): 23–64.
Published: 01 April 2010
... and Derby figurines of allegorical
“seasons” (produced throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries),
porcelain vases and creamware, to sculpture, decorative fireplace and floor
Eighteenth-Century Life
Volume 34, Number 2, Spring 2010 doi 10.1215/00982601...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (3): 65–104.
Published: 01 September 2009
... started producing orna-
mental urns in the form of copies of Greek vases, some of which appear to
have been used as memorial vessels.”30 Most commonly the viscera were
placed in plain jars or lead boxes on shelves within a family crypt. In Prac-
tical Surgery (1796), Robert White directs...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 30–63.
Published: 01 September 2014
... (‘The
The Correspondence between M. Edgeworth and R. M. Lazarus 5 7
Little Merchants In the Moral Tales he is Solomon, a traitor and perjurer (‘The
Prussian Vase’) and Mr. Carat, a fraudulent jeweler (‘The Good Aunt In Belinda
he is Solomon, the swindler. In Popular Tales he is Rachub of El Arish, a money...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (1): 73–113.
Published: 01 January 2010
... of a vase filled with beautifully arranged flowers, we had caught
a glimpse of thin filigrees of blood where the stems had been cut” (85). He asks
us to see, in the Sanditon manuscript, “Style’s literal last gasp” (with a capital
S) before it “becomes, shall I say, with feelings badly conflicted...
