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4. Fabricating Space I: Outside
Kate Retford
Description: The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Exterior spaces in conversation pieces range from evocative pastoral settings to precise locations in front of country houses; from generic landscapes, composed of framing trees and winding rivers, to established viewpoints within gardens, marked by temples or inviting seats...
Author
Kate Retford
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2017 by Kate Retford
Related print edition pages: pp.129-171
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00340.5
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23272
Chapter subject tags:Conversation piece (Portrait painting)Country homes--EnglandZoffany, Johann, 1733-1810England--Social life and customs--18th centuryArt and society--Britain--History--18th centuryPortrait painting, British--18th centuryGardens, English, in art--18th centuryDevis, Arthur, 1711-1787

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