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Middle-class drawing room in Blackheath, London, 1841, painted by James Holland. In 18th-century London, the royal morning receptions that the French called levées were called "drawing rooms", with the sense originally that the privileged members of court would gather in the drawing room outside the king's bedroom, where he would make his first formal public appearance of the day.
A drawing room play is a type of play, developed during the Victorian period in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. They set middle-class characters confronting a social problem of the time with a comedic twist. [1] The play is formed from a blend of three parts: part well-made play, part society drama, part comedy of manners. [2]
Townsends is an American educational YouTube channel created and hosted by Jon Townsend.Originally a channel to advertise items for sale from the family's brick and mortar historical reenactment supply store in Pierceton, Indiana, Townsends has become known for its historical mini-documentaries.
In April 2021, Scott's "Powerhouse" was used in the CBS TV show Young Sheldon, in the opening scene of the episode "Mitch's Son and the Unconditional Approval of a Government Agency" (season 4, ep. 14). [26] Scott's son, film editor Stan Warnow, released the documentary Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott in 2010.
A print room is a room in an art gallery or museum where a collection of old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings, watercolours, and photographs, are held and viewed. A further meaning is a room decorated by pasting prints onto the wall in a quasi- collage style to form a sort of wallpaper , an 18th-century fashion, of which ...
Originally part of the suite of Maria Feodorovna, [22] these two drawing rooms were redesigned for Nicholas II and his wife in a French style, the Silver Drawing Room in a 19th-century interpretation of the Louis XVI style and the Empire Drawing Room in a faux Napoleonic empire style. From these rooms, the Tsaritsa was able to withdraw to still ...
The meaning of "cabinet" began to be extended to the contents of the cabinet; [9] thus we see the 16th-century cabinet of curiosities, often combined with a library. The sense of cabinet as a piece of furniture is actually older in English than the meaning as a room, but originally meant more a strong-box or jewel-chest than a display-case. [10]
In the 18th century, stories of pig-faced women began to be reported as fact in England. [20] James Paris du Plessis , former servant to Samuel Pepys, told in his Short History of Human Prodigious & Monstrous Births (compiled 1731–1733) of a pig-faced woman living in Holborn in central London, which was widely reprinted. [ 21 ]