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| Arthur Devis The Reverend Streynsham Master and his wife Margaret 1743-44 oil on canvas Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancashire |
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| William Hogarth Francis Matthew Schutz in his Bed ca. 1755-60 oil on canvas Norfolk Museums |
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| David Wilkie Reading the News ca. 1820 oil on panel Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne |
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| John Partridge The Artist and his Family in their House at 21 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London ca. 1828-35 oil on canvas Museum of London |
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| James Digman Wingfield Picture Gallery at Stafford House (now Lancaster House) 1848 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| Edward Matthew Ward John Forster in his Library ca. 1850 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Edward Matthew Ward Hogarth's Studio in 1739 1863 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| James McNeill Whistler Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks 1864 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Chinoiserie
My mother in her dress of red Viyella, teetering like a tiny idol
on three-inch lacquered spikes, chignon dressed with little gold-
throated bells that chirped more sweetly than the cricket,
held her small, perfect hands to the torrent pouring from the slot.
Money went like water through our fingers: was dammed
by budgets, released, then abruptly gone at the China Starr,
that grotto, festooned with red and vivid lanterns.
Dark as the inside of a limousine, that saloon was where
our lives, dulled by the copper barons, were cleansed,
where we bade good-bye to the limp and stutter
of bad goods, to the wince of the creaky rocker, to the vast
grandmother dying in its clutch, to the dirty, wrinkled ones
and tens pieced together to cover the week. Hello, we said,
to the beautiful dark starlit bar and the luxury therein:
the runcible spoons with their slippery cargo: the snarled silk
of tinned bean sprout, the wrinkled flame of the dried lily.
Hunched over our beakers of jasmine tea, we let the exotic
rinse over us – impractical and non-negotiable.
– Lynn Emanuel (1992)
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| John Callcott Horsley A Pleasant Corner 1865 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| William David Interior, Speke Hall ca. 1854-70 oil on canvas Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Albert Letchford Interior of Sir Richard Burton's Bedroom ca. 1880 oil on panel Orleans House Gallery, London |
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| Henry Stacy Marks A Treatise on Parrots 1885 oil on canvas Sudley House, Liverpool |
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| John Haynes-Williams The Miniature ca. 1885 oil on canvas Darlington Library, County Durham |
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| William Rothenstein The Browning Readers 1900 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |
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| James Dickson Innes The Corner of a Room 1908 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |